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Quotes About Devastation

El trastorno psíquico es un súbito e inesperado rayo que te fulmina. Su devastadora llegada tiene cierta semejanza con los accidentes domésticos graves.
~ Rosa Montero
They slaughtered all the game they could find and so muddied the rivers and creeks with silt that the once plentiful salmon couldn't survive. The herds of elk and deer, the food source for Native Americans, were practically wiped out in one summer.
~ Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
a decimated wasteland
~ Sally Malcolm
My father's death, my move, and my frightening and difficult delivery created a tremendous amount of stress, pain, and sadness for me. I was practically devastated beyond recovery.
~ Brooke Shields
And now commenced the work of devastation upon the many good things with which the table was loaded.
~ Alexandre Dumas
The ever-new passions which consumed her gave to her life the appearance of those clouds which float in the heavens, reflecting sometimes azure, sometimes fire, sometimes the opaque blackness of the tempest, and which leave no traces upon the earth behind them but devastation and death.
~ Alexandre Dumas
What men yearn for they often destroy.
~ Alice Hoffman
I feel like I'm standing in the wake of a volcano erruption.
~ Alice Sebold
my man world will blow up
~ Allen Ginsberg
The Forest that had been about her all her life, certain as a mountain, was made ashes. The high gable that had stood for two hundred years fallen in ruin. Throvenland was torn apart like smoke on the wind. Nowhere would be safe, ever again.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Death and ruin is man's preferred ecosystem.
~ Joe Hill
The people who had witnessed the mushroom cloud rising from Hiroshima could've felt no less.
~ Joe Hill
The only thing that didn't seem to belong here was the hospital room itself. It would have been more appropriately suited to someone who was actually fighting for his life, or at least trying to get well. My eyes kept going back to the Post headline running in huge capital letters above the aerial photo of our house, or what had been our house, blasted to pieces and burned to the ground. Blown away.
~ Joe Schreiber
The feeling that I was not worthy of her finished me.
~ Edgar Lee Masters
Omnivorous red devils with a vicious bite, they have denuded the ground surrounding their hill, destroying everything green and living within a radius of ten feet. I cannot resist the impulse to shove my walking stick into the bowels of their hive and rowel things up. Don't actually care for ants. Neurotic little pismires. Compared to ants the hairy scorpion is a beast of charm, dignity and
~ Edward Abbey
There was a great cry in Egypt; for there was not a house where there was not one dead.
~ Anonymous
Abomination of desolation.
~ Anonymous
All of it is burning. Every memory he ever made.
~ Anthony Doerr
Doors soar away from their frames. Bricks transmute into powder. Great distending clouds of chalk and earth and granite spout into the sky. All twelve bombers have already turned and climbed and realigned above the Channel before roof slates blown into the air finish falling into the streets.
~ Anthony Doerr
The blow was devastating. The two men had been friends from boyhood
~ Anthony Everitt
One fucking smoke and it cost me my job, my pension, my marriage, my whole fucking life.
~ Anthony Horowitz
Nature is the purest thing we can touch and observe. It can be the most beautiful and also the most devastating.
~ Jeff Nichols
A lot of people would be happy that they got through a long career and had a chance to play as many times in the finals. To me, I wanted to win for the franchise and for the people. And when you can't do that, it's devastating, particularly for someone like me.
~ Jerry West
I wasn't angry with God that I lost my husband. I was devastated; I was broken. I still am, in many ways. But I feel like God gives free will to everyone, and people who want to choose evil, they have that same free will.
~ Taya Kyle