Quotes About Devastation

War is devastating, and it leaves its scars for generations.

Mr. Speaker, genocide is the most potent of all crimes against humanity because it is an effort to systematically wipe out a people and a culture as well as individual lives.

The actions of my government are not bearable. They devastate our natural resources and deprive our people. The politicians speak piously while practicing greed and divisiveness. They care nothing for the nation. I want to do more than withdraw my support. I want to tar and feather them.

Near the gates and within two cities there will be scourges the like of which was never seen: famine within plague, people put out by steel, crying to the great immortal God for relief.

We have witnessed the most extraordinary devastation. The magnitude of the situation is unbelievable. It's just heartbreaking.

In my third novel there is an actual black hole that swallows everything you love.

The misery in war-torn Afghanistan is reminiscent of images from the Thirty Years' War.

War is a sinkhole that sucks money and men into it and is never filled.

He said nothing in the world was worth what this war was going to do to us. He said there wasn't anything at all to glory—it was just misery and dirt.

Something's died in me," she goes. "It took a long time for it to do it, but it's dead. You've killed something, just like you'd took an axe to it. Everything is dirt now.

I was 17 and the whole thing was very confusing at the time. It was a great job and I loved it, and to lose the role was definitely tough for me. I was devastated when I lost the role.

unübersehbarer Schaden, schrecklich, entsetzlich, nie zu ersetzen'*

It was hitting me again like so many violent blows that my world was dashed, that my house was ruined, that Amadeo was stolen from me.

Ma la bambina, quell'antica bambina, la mia Claudia, era cenere. Un urlo crebbe dentro di me, un selvaggio e devastante urlo che veniva dalle viscere del mio essere; si alzava come il vento che faceva turbinare la pioggia su quelle ceneri, che batteva sull'impronta di una mano, sui mattoni, che sollevava quei capelli biondi.

During the Labor Day Hurricane of 1935, winds were past 200 miles per house and people caught outside were sandblasted to death. Rescue workers found nothing but their shoes and belt buckles… In 1938, the hurricane put downtown Providence, Rhode Island, under 10 feet of ocean. The waves generated by that storm were so huge that they literally shook the earth; seismographs in Alaska picked up their impact 5,000 miles away.

I remember thinking that the Germans must have had a very fine view of all the neighborhoods they were obliterating.

I didn't know what to say to her. What do you say to people when they ask how it feels to lose everything? When every planet in your solar system has exploded?

My hopes and dreams floated up in a mushroom cloud. What do you do when the world has declared nuclear war on you?

What do you say to people when they ask you how it feels to lose everything? When every planet in your solar system has exploded?

You'll never see the moments coming that will for ever mutilate your life-at least not until after they've mowed you down. -Savitar

So, change lanes. Get your stride back. Don't stay on a road that can only lead you to further devastation

Even if you have loved only once in your life, you're ruined.

destroyed above 12,000,000 of souls upon the continent of America, in the space of forty years.

At exactly fifteen minutes past eight in the morning, on August 6, 1945, Japanese time . . . the moment when the atomic bomb flashed over Hiroshima . . . .