Karen Russell Quotes

What region of the earth is not full of our calamities?

The world is on fire.

What will the present chaos lead to? How will it all end? It can only end in one way. Mankind will be sick of it all.

The whole world is a disaster waiting to happen.

You can remember, a single deluge only, but there were many previous ones.

If current tendencies persist, the outcome will be disastrous before too long. Large parts of the world will become barely habitable affecting hundreds of millions of people, along with other disasters that we can barely contemplate.

The war of Armageddon has already started... God is using his many weapons. He is sending hurricanes so fast that [the blue-eyed devils] can't name them. He is drowning them in floods and causing their cars to crash and their airplanes cannot stay up in the sky. Their boats are sinking because Allah controls all things and he is using all methods to begin to wipe the devils off the planet, [and] the enemy is dying of diseases that have never been so deadly.

And I, unfortunately, have been to too many disasters as president.

I am not writing in metaphors. I am writing about catastrophes.

I said I liked what I am looking at because I felt he had a strength required of anyone who wished to save America, or move away the Wrath of Allah (God) plaguing not only America but the world with the forces of nature.

When you're reading the news and sometimes you just think, "How bad can things get"?

The worst of Nature brings out the best in our fellow human beings.

The apocalypse is not something which is coming. The apocalypse has arrived in major portions of the planet and it’s only because we live within a bubble of incredible privilege and social insulation that we still have the luxury of anticipating the apocalypse.

We've been given a warning by science, and a wake-up call by nature; it is up to us now to heed them.

The world is a mess. The world is as angry as it gets.

I escaped the Thunder, and fell into the Lightning.

I wouldn't make a connection between the daily news and volcanoes.

If you’re listening to this, congratulations! You survived Doomsday. I’d like to apologize straightaway for any inconvenience the end of the world may have caused you. The earthquakes, rebellions, riots,tornadoes, floods, tsunamis, and of course the giant snake who swallowed the sun—I’m afraid most of that was our fault. Carter and I decided we should at least explain how it happened.

I think the world is a series of broken dams and floods, and my cartoons are tiny little lifeboats.

The world is literally about to blow up.

When disaster waves, I try not to wave back.

A world is in flames, and you are cracking silly jokes.

There will be more calamities, more death, more despair. Not the slightest indication of a change anywhere. The cancer of our time is eating us away. Our heroes have killed themselves, or are killing themselves.

There are disasters that are entirely manmade, but none that are entirely natural.

Do you think we're going to hit a tipping point and the world's going to end?