Quotes About Devastation

All my beautiful lovely safe world blew itself up here with a great gust of high explosive love.

L'INNOCENZA PERDUTA Avevo un campo pieno di speranza ma nel delirio della febbre lo devastai, e allora lo seminai di amori e vi nacquero fiori di delusione.

I had a great many sex and love cases where people were absolutely devastated when somebody with whom they were compulsively in love didn't love them back. They were killing themselves with anxiety and depression.

I'm not devastated over a baseball game. If somebody came to me and said, 'Your wife is terminally ill.' Or, if my kids and wife get on a plane and I got a call that said, 'Something happened with the plane,' that's devastating.

The second stage set in ten or fifteen days after the bombing. Its first symptom was falling hair. Diarrhea and fever, which in some cases went as high as 106, came next.

In terms of being able to renew my nation, to be able to be able to bring back a devastated country, to restore hope to our people, to lift women and to give them a new horizon, a new ambition and new dreams, in respect of all of that, I think we've accomplished it, and I feel very good about that.

The Katrina matter was terrible.

Hundreds and hundreds of the dead were so badly burned in the terrific heat generated by the bomb that it was not even possible to tell whether they were men or women, old or young.

The loss of a child is the most terrifying place for me to go.

We did not speak in terms of strategy, in terms of overall economies, in terms of production and territorial conquest. We spoke of the impact of the bomb on the homes and the hopes of men and women.

Nature is the worst terrorist you can imagine.

Katrina did much more damage than anything the terrorists could ever put together.

In this first testing ground of the atomic bomb I have seen the most terrible and frightening desolation in four years of war. It makes a blitzed Pacific island seem like an Eden. The damage is far greater than photographs can show.

The market economy story has spread like wildfire, with uneven results for human well-being and devastation for the natural world. But it is just a story we have told ourselves

It's the sheriff," he said solemnly, the corners of his mouth twisting downward. "He didn't make it." "What?" Pescoli exploded. "What the hell are you talking about?

Suddenly, someone who was at the center of your life is gone, excised as quickly as an apple is cored, a sharp spike driven down the center of your world, then a cruel flick of the wrist and the almost surgical extraction of your very heart.

In my life, no three miles have been flat and no three days have had sun. I've been brave in the past, but now I'm beyond devastated. My grief is like dense clouds that cannot be dispersed. I can't think beyond the blackness of my clothes and heart.

There is no more hollow feeling than to stand with your honor shattered at your feet while soaring public reputation wraps you in rewards. That's soul-destroying.

He is not coming back. And it hurt.It hurt until she was a mass of pain,worse than it had been when she thought he was dead. More all consuming. Ravaging her insides.

Laurie felt just then that his heart was entirely broken and the world a howling wilderness.

La guerra es una porquería no sólo derriba casas, sino también los principios más elevados.

El mundo se derrumba. Y, desde las ruinas tu te obsesionas en darle vueltas y vueltas al instante anterior al terremoto.

Como aún era muy joven, estaba convencida de que nunca jamás encontraría a ningún hombre que me gustara tanto. Los demás varones de la Tierra desaparecieron para mis ojos: tres mil millones de seres que se borraron de golpe. Era un sufrimiento tan obsesivo que, por las mañanas, cuando me despertaba, el primer pensamiento que me asaltaba era la imagen de M. y la desolada certidumbre de haberlo perdido.

supe lo que era el dolor psíquico, que es devastador por lo inefable.