Calamity may refer to:
- A disaster, a terrible event
- Al-Qaria (English: The Calamity), the 101st sura of the Qur'an
- Calamity Jane, a nineteenth century American frontierwoman
- Calamity Jane (1953 film), a 1953 film based on the person
- Calamity James, a British comic book character
- Calamity King, a fictional character from D.C. comics
- Calamity (board game), a board game released by Games Workshop in 1983
- GAT-X131 Calamity Gundam, a fictional weapon from the Gundam series
- The Irish Potato Famine (1845-1849), also known as "The Great Calamity"
- Calamity Coyote from Tiny Toon Adventures
- The Calamity from the Skies, or Jenova, an antagonist from Final Fantasy VII.
- The event that is the central plot point for the 2011 video game Bastion.
Famous quotes containing the word calamity:
“A bad neighbor is as great a calamity as a good one is a great advantage.”
—Hesiod (c. 8th century B.C.)
“There is no calamity which right words will not begin to redress.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“O that my vexation were weighed, and all my calamity laid in the balances! For then it would be heavier than the sand of the sea; therefore my words have been rash. For the arrows of the Almighty are in me; my spirit drinks their poison; the terrors of God are arrayed against me.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Job 6:2-5.