Quotes About Devastation

She had been a smart, lovely, laughing and lovable thing, full of pleasure in the world, and now she was so stricken and devastated that she seemed set apart in an awful lonely world of her own.

People don't understand the devastation the murder of a child does to someone. Eighty percent of parents of murdered children wind up in divorce. The only thing you have in common is that horrible sadness. You can't see the joy of your previous life.

Addiction is a crazy disease. It's a progressive disease when it's not dealt with; it don't care who it takes, and it takes it all. You wind up losing your house, your home, your reputation.

As a 9-year-old child, I vividly remember the day Hurricane Andrew touched down in 1992. My family was living in the Upper Florida Keys at the time, and we soon realized its utter devastation to South Florida, with entire blocks leveled by Andrew's vicious winds.

Writing an acceptance speech gives you the expectation of winning, and you are therefore devastated or hurt if you didn't win.

The enduring lesson is war is a disaster. Whoever wins, tremendous loss of life, property - a set back for civilisation.

I was looking forward to coming back here for some fun. Before this happened to me, I'd been planning all the many ways I could break your heart." He cocked his head and smiled at her. "Had you, now? That sounds interesting. Now I have something to look forward to." "I was thinking you'd be devastated. Wiped out," she told him. "Ah. Are you willing to share any details?" "Not a chance." "I'm already devastated.

Now an empty shell, after its heart was blown out by a Venetian cannonball in 1687

and broke through the undefended Balkans to devastate all of mainland Greece north of the Peloponnese.

Her reaction signaled that his memory had the power to destroy.

A village, even a small one, takes at least all night to burn, in the end it looks like an enormous flower, then there's only a bud, and after that nothing.

They called it the Great War, but that implied worthiness and grandeur, not violence and helplessness and the utter waste and devastation our country, our city, our people endured.

There is no good that comes from the storm, no silver lining, no Hollywood ending. Death descends. Lives are lost.

He goes so far as to suggest that we were secretly hoping that such devastation would be visited upon us:

This war that is coming—are you sure it will harm all in its path? Even the youth? Everything. It will destroy everything. Pax

He spends the night in prayer. God's voice, through the intercession of the Blessed Virgin, tells him what the politician in him already knows: that whatever he might stand to gain from playing one against the other, the prospect of a foreign army marching through Italy can bring only instability and devastation in its wake for all. He is, it seems, the Church's shepherd after all.

fire consumes more than it warms. In the end there will be only ashes

Oh, oh! You have destroyed the beautiful world.

The complete bottom has fallen out of my life.

If there was a war, a big war, a major war on the planet, it would be a nuclear war, and it would destroy all life, human and subhuman, on planet earth.

The victims," he said, "looked like a field of timothy grass, blown flat by the wind and rain after a summer storm.

Words will never be enough to quantify and qualify the many magnitudes of human-caused destruction.

I look like a quarry someone has dynamited.

I'm in a great rage now, as I understand how many lives we have lost.