Catastrophe
A catastrophe is an extremely large-scale disaster, a horrible event.
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Famous quotes containing the word catastrophe:
“It is not womens fault if we are so tender. It is in the nature of the lives we live. And further, it would be a terrible catastrophe if men had to live mens lives and womens also. Which is precisely what has happened todayto women.”
—Selma James (b. 1930)
“The delirium and horror of the East. The dusty catastrophe of Asia. Green only on the banner of the Prophet. Nothing grows here except mustaches.”
—Joseph Brodsky (b. 1940)
“Oh, what a catastrophe for man when he cut himself off from the rhythm of the year, from his unison with the sun and the earth. Oh, what a catastrophe, what a maiming of love when it was a personal, merely personal feeling, taken away from the rising and the setting of the sun, and cut off from the magic connection of the solstice and the equinox!”
—D.H. (David Herbert)