These Aftermath quotes will inspire you. Aftermath the consequences or aftereffects of a significant unpleasant event.

A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging aftermath quotes, aftermath sayings, and aftermath proverbs.

Famous Aftermath Quotes

1. “Say what you want to say about the rest of his presidency, including his tone-deaf response to Katrina and a war waged in Iraq on false pretenses, Bush connected with Americans in the aftermath of 9/11 because he looked as frail and unforgiving as we felt.” ~ Ron Fournier
2. “The aftermath of the war is what inspired us to write many of our plays. The whole reason for our writing Inherit the Wind was that we were appalled at the blacklisting. We were appalled at thought control.” ~ Jerome Lawrence
3. “Post-structuralism is among other things a kind of theoretical hangover from the failed uprising of ‘68, a way of keeping the revolution warm at the level of language, blending the euphoric libertarianism of that moment with the stoical melancholia of its aftermath.” ~ Terry Eagleton

4. “Hatred, slavery’s inevitable aftermath.” ~ Jose Marti

5. “Thousands of people may have been killed by hurricane Katrina and many more could die in its aftermath because of the President’s refusal to heed the calls of governors for help in repairing the infrastructure in their states.” ~ Charles Rangel
6. “. And it is youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow and the triumphs that are the aftermath of war.” ~ Herbert Hoover
7. “I’m just always a bit thrown when, in the immediate aftermath of some event which makes us feel like either God’s out to get us or He’s not doing His job as well as He can, we all still get together and continue to ask Him for help.” ~ Paul Feig

8. “The experience of testifying and the aftermath have changed my life” ~ Anita Hill

9. “I don’t think we handled the aftermath of the fall of Baghdad as well as we might have. But that’s now history.” ~ Colin Powell
10. “History has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.” ~ Alan Greenspan
11. “There may yet be another Watergate book. I have thought a book about the aftermath of Watergate and its impact could be done, perhaps by me or someone else.” ~ Bob Woodward

12. “In the aftermath of September 11th, it is critical to secure our borders.” ~ Bobby Jindal

13. “My book ‘Trust Your Heart’, which is the story of my life, will be followed by ‘Singing Lessons’, a memoir of love, loss, hope, and healing, which talks about the death of my son and the hope that has been the aftermath of the healing from that tragedy.” ~ Judy Collins
14. “In the aftermath of September 11, and as the 9/11 Commission report so aptly demonstrates, it is clear that our intelligence system is not working the way that it should.” ~ Hillary Clinton
15. “By a museum, I assume you mean an institution dedicated to the events of Sept. 11 and the aftermath. If that is done with sensitivity, I think it would be most appropriate.” ~ David Rockefeller

16. “Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.” ~ Herbert Hoover

17. “Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die. And it is youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow and the triumphs that are the aftermath of war.” ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
18. “All the aftermath that so frequently follows in the wake of war still confront the nation, and we now, as ever before, must hold fast to the ancient landmarks and see to it that all of these plagues that threaten so mightily shall be rendered harmless.” ~ Bill Vaughan , War aftermath quotes
19. “The United Nations was founded in the aftermath of World War II, just as the world was beginning to learn the full horrors of history’s worst genocide, the Holocaust that consumed 6 million Jews and 3 million others in Europe.” ~ Linda Chavez

20. “The aftermath of joy is not usually more joy.” ~ Mason Cooley

21. “The easiest period in a crisis situation is actually the battle itself. The most difficult is the period of indecision – whether to fight or run away. And the most dangerous period is the aftermath. It is then, with all his resources spent and his guard down, that an individual must watch out for dulled reactions and faulty judgment.” ~ Richard M. Nixon
22. “When I was 21, I got into a motorcycle accident while traveling in Europe and I had to lie around a lot in the aftermath, which was really the first time in my life that I became really focused and inspired to write.” ~ Chantal Kreviazuk
23. “Legislation passed in the aftermath of September 11, 2001 enhanced our intelligence capabilities and strengthened our national defense, but until now our nation’s immigration policies have not adapted to the needs of a post-September 11th world.” ~ Chris Chocola

24. “I’ve had to recover not only from a single well-publicized incident but several years of press aftermath.” ~ Donna Rice Hughes

25. “However, the economics of our business continued to deteriorate. We barely escaped bankruptcy a year ago, and in the aftermath of that escape we had to make some even tougher decisions.” ~ Gerard Arpey
26. “The notion of a neutral, mainstream national media gained dominance only in World War II and in its aftermath when what turned out to be a temporary moderate consensus came to govern the country.” ~ Howard Fineman
27. “As everyone in Louisiana knows, there was often no communication or coordination between the state and federal government in the aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.” ~ Bobby Jindal

28. “Two things Florida can teach the other 49 states: how to make a good margarita and how to deal with the aftermath of a hurricane.” ~ Tom Feeney

29. “There may be some backward countries where the mass of the people are on a subsistence level and where, as an aftermath of wars or partial crop failures, the standard of living has to be drastically reduced, but this certainly is not the case in our prosperous nations.” ~ Charles E. Wilson
30. “As a German philosopher writing in the aftermath of the Nazi regime, Marcuse understood the sleep inducing force of indoctrination, its power to make people forget and forfeit their own real interests. “The fact that the vast majority of the population accepts, and is made to accept, this society does not render it less irrational and less reprehensible,” he wrote. “The distinction between true and false consciousness, real and immediate interest still is meaningful.”” ~ Daniel Pinchbeck
31. “Nowadays, people resort to all kinds of activities in order to calm themselves after a stressful event: performing yoga poses in a sauna, leaping off bridges while tied to a bungee, killing imaginary zombies with imaginary weapons, and so forth. But in Miss Penelope Lumley’s day, it was universally understood that there is nothing like a nice cup of tea to settle one’s nerves in the aftermath of an adventure- a practice many would find well worth reviving.” ~ Maryrose Wood

32. “Friends tell each other the truth, and then friends stick around for the aftermath.” ~ Amy Dickinson

33. “There is an unbroken line of police violence in the United States that takes us all the way back to the days of slavery, the aftermath of slavery, the development of the Ku Klux Klan. There is so much history of this racist violence that simply to bring one person to justice is not going to disturb the whole racist edifice.” ~ Angela Davis
34. “For we have a choice in this country. We can accept a politics that breeds division, and conflict, and cynicism. We can tackle race only as spectacle – as we did in the OJ trial – or in the wake of tragedy, as we did in the aftermath of Katrina – or as fodder for the nightly news. We can play Reverend Wright’s sermons on every channel, every day and talk about them from now until the election, and make the only question in this campaign whether or not the American people think that I somehow believe or sympathize with his most offensive words.” ~ Barack Obama
35. “It [9/11 tragedy] was the spectacle, what al-Qaeda gets its main power from – why their terrorism truly earns the word “acts.” They are very theatrical, always – the simultaneous violence, the grandiose, symbolic gestures (the number 911, “United” and “American” flights, the World Trade as target etc). And then its aftermath.” ~ Porochista Khakpour

36. “The method of nonviolence seeks not to humiliate and not to defeat the oppressor, but it seeks to win his friendship and his understanding. And thereby and therefore the aftermath of this method is reconciliation.” ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

37. “Grief is not just a series of events, stages, or timelines. Our society places enormous pressure on us to get over loss, to get through grief. But how long do you grieve for a husband of fifty years, a teenager killed in a car accident, a four-year-old child: a year? Five years? Forever? The loss happens in time, in fact in a moment, but its aftermath lasts a lifetime.” ~ Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
38. “This is how we honor 53 dead, innocent people who had nothing to do with their deaths. They just were in the wrong place at the wrong time, when a bigot decided to take ’em out. And all of a sudden we’re judging the aftermath as to whether or not [Barack] Obama’s an effective president? For crying out loud!” ~ Rush Limbaugh
39. “If we didn’t have the Electoral College there would have been no George W. Bush presidency. Algore would have been elected. The Democrats have not gotten over that, and they never will get over the recount, the aftermath of that election in 2000. They are still animated by it today. It is a significant portion of the rage and anger they carry around with them every day, so they want to get rid of it.” ~ Rush Limbaugh

40. “Technology isn’t fulfilling its promise of unlimited progress and solving every problem through technology. With the Enlightenment and its aftermath, there already was a general loss of confidence in the Western religions.” ~ Thomas Keating

41. “The future is bulletproof, The aftermath is secondary.” ~ Gerard Way
42. “History has shown that Big Government expands quickest in the immediate aftermath of a crisis – real or manufactured.” ~ Bob Barr
43. “Tell me not here, it needs not saying, What tune the enchantress plays In aftermaths of soft September Or under blanching mays, For she and I were long acquainted And I knew all her ways.” ~ A. E. Housman

44. “Let’s get to a world where we don’t litigate the aftermath, because it doesn’t happen in the first place.” ~ Jon Shenk

45. “The voice is raised, and that is where poetry begins. And even today, in the prolonged aftermath of modernism, in places where “open form” or free verse is the orthodoxy, you will find a memory of that raising of the voice in the term “heightened speech”.” ~ James Fenton
46. “The World Will Break Your Heart. Grief might be, in some ways, the long aftermath of love, the internal work of knowing, holding, more fully valuing what we have lost.” ~ Mark Doty
47. “We like democracy because why? The pathologies of the U.S. version are so obvious in the aftermath of the latest averted crisis that we need to ask ourselves whether it’s worth it – and why electoral democracy hasn’t self-destructed before. Should Tunisians or Egyptians opt for the Chinese model, where rational autocrats may restrict rights, but no one threatens to blow up world markets in the name of an 18th-century tax protest?” ~ Noah Feldman

48. “Suicide carries in its aftermath a level of confusion and devastation that is, for the most part, beyond description.” ~ Kay Redfield Jamison

49. “In a lifetime among cops since, I’ve noted that investigators who piece together the aftermaths of home invasion murders tend to keep their guns on all the time after that, even when off duty in their own house, and keep them by the bed when they go to sleep.They have learned from the helplessly-murdered dead” ~ Massad Ayoob
50. “Any onset of increased investor caution elevates risk premiums and, as a consequence, lowers asset values and promotes the liquidation of the debt that supported higher asset prices, … This is the reason that history has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low-risk premiums.” ~ Alan Greenspan
51. “A damnably readable, streamlined, yet deeply researched work. Skipping the ancestors and aftermath of conventional biography, Max gives us the man, his work, and his times-the niceties of which (so complicated, so exquisitely intertwined) Max articulates with, well, Wallace-like lucidity and wit. Above all this is the story of a touching young man who insisted on being something better than simply the smartest person in the room.” ~ Blake Bailey

52. “Despite its name, the big bang theory is not really a theory of a bang at all. It is really only a theory of the aftermath of a bang.” ~ Alan Guth

53. “Sure, my boss took advantage of me, but I will always remain firm on this point: it was a consensual relationship. Any ‘abuse’ came in the aftermath, when I was made a scapegoat in order to protect his powerful position.” ~ Monica Lewinsky
54. “‘The Accursed’ is very much a novel about social injustice as the consequence of the terrible, tragic division of classes – the exploitation not only of poor and immigrant workers but of their young children in factories and mills – and as the consequence of race hatred in the aftermath of the Civil War and the freeing of the slaves.” ~ Joyce Carol Oates
55. “Ten years ago, in the aftermath of the referendum in Quebec, the very existence of Canada was on the line… I had a responsibility to ensure that Canada never again came close to the precipice.” ~ Jean Chretien

56. “In the aftermath of any war or genocide, healing and reconciliation are ultimate aspirations.” ~ Janine di Giovanni

57. “A different kind of pleasure surfaced in the aftermath, the pleasure of seeing the towers fall time and again, the experience of being entranced by the visual spectacle, and then also the very graphic forms of public mourning for exemplary citizens (taking place at the same time as the refusal to mourn the undocumented, the foreign, gay and lesbian lives lost there, for example). I am not sure that the guilt over the pleasure re-installed the good citizen.” ~ Judith Butler
58. “If you were president 50 years ago, the tragedy in Syria might not even penetrate what the American people were thinking about on a day to day basis. Today, they’re seeing vivid images of a child in the aftermath of a bombing.” ~ Barack Obama
59. “Saigon, U.S.A. aptly documents the birth of a new American community, uprooted in the aftermath of war and forever torn apart by the wounds of the past, yet one capable of healing against all odds. An engrossing yet succinct film that captures not only a major incident in Vietnamese American life, but also an important chapter of American history. A profound film that manages to confront us with the deepest sorrow while allowing us to be hopeful about what it means to be human.” ~ Nguyen Qui Duc

60. “If an accident happens in a plant, the aftermath will be unimaginable.” ~ Zhou Shengxian

61. “The Brightwood Stillness is a novel I could not put down. On the surface, it is the lives of normal people in trying circumstances. Deeper, it is an uncannily perceptive exploration of male psychology… Pomeroy is a brave new voice capable of taking us beyond the clichés of war and its aftermath and into the secret heart of every man. This is simply the best novel I’ve read in a long time.” ~ Andrew X. Pham
62. “I think the press, which arguably was cowed by the (Bush) administration in the run-up to the war with Iraq, was certainly not cowed in covering the aftermath of Katrina.” ~ Ken Auletta

63. “What we’ve seen in Louisiana – the breakdown of law and order in the aftermath of disaster – is exactly the kind of situation where the Second Amendment was intended to allow citizens to protect themselves.” ~ Wayne LaPierre

64. “The dark aftermath of the frontier, of the vast promise of possibility this country first offered, is an inflated sense of American entitlement today. We want what we want, and we want it now. Easy credit. Fast food. A straight shot down the interstate from point A to point B. The endless highway is crowded with the kinds of cars large enough to take a mountain pass in high snow. Instead they are used to take children from soccer practice to Pizza Hut. In the process they burn fuel like there’s no tomorrow. Tomorrow’s coming.” ~ Anna Quindlen
65. “The fears of recession in the aftermath of Black Monday have turned to fears of the economy racing ahead too fast, with inflation edging up and a substantial current account deficit… People understandably feel more confident about their future than they’ve done for decades, but as a result they have been borrowing more and saving less… Coming on top of a massive income investment boom, it’s all been just a bit too much of a good thing.” ~ Nigel Lawson

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