To me, self-description is a calamity.
Jasper Johns
When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.
Samuel Johnson
He is not valiant that dares die, but he that boldly bears calamity.
Philip Massinger
Calamity is the test of integrity.
Samuel Richardson
We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us.
John Lancaster Spalding
Yield not to calamity, but face her boldly.
Virgil
It is surely a great calamity for a human being to have no obsessions.
Robert Bly