Synonyms for calamities
calami·ties

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1. List of paraphrases for "calamities":

   disasters, catastrophes, scourges

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1. Joseph Addison:

   A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves constant ease and serenity within us; and more than countervails all the calamities and afflictions which can befall us from without.

2. Ambrose Bierce:

   Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves, and good fortune to others.

3. Goldsmith:

   While the slightest inconveniences of the great are magnified into calamities, while tragedy mouths out their sufferings in all the strains of eloquence, the miseries of the poor are entirely disregarded; and yet some of the lower ranks of people undergo more real hardships in one day than those of a more exalted station suffer in their whole lives.

4. Jeremy Taylor:

   Friendship is the allay of our sorrows, the ease of our passions, the discharge of our oppressions, the sanctuary to our calamities, the counselor of our doubts, the clarity of our minds.

5. Mahabharata:

   Those men are wise who do not desire the unattainable, who do not love to mourn over what is lost, and are not overwhelmed by calamities.