Quotes About Devastation

In four months, Nagumo's carriers had traveled more than 50,000 miles, spreading terror and devastation a full third of the way around the earth, from Hawaii in the east to Ceylon in the west. But the mileage was beginning to wear. The ships and crews had been sent on too many missions in too many directions; they had traveled too many miles with too little rest; they had been pushed to the limits of endurance by commanders who were loath to accept that such limits even existed.

Magravandias was a an inexorable force. The great red, purple and black banners of Madragore surged across the world, bringing war and devastation in the names of peace and God.

How could their passion have become so warped, so blighted?

many believe their devastation will be permanent. While this feeling persists, it is difficult to recognize that it is part of a process that leads to renewal.

Love loves anarchy. It loves to wreak havoc. It loves to dance atop the ruins.

You want to know what love is? Its the thing that ruins you.

His walk and stare. Was as poisonous as the air after a nuclear bomb.

Sadly, there are many forces more powerful and devestating than love... Among them for example, the anger and jealousy of a spurned husband or lover. Fire begets passions, but it also burns.

what twists or rage greater than we could ever guess had savaged skylines, thousands of lives?

Nothing feeds forgetfulness better than war.... We all keep quiet and they try to convince us that what we've seen, what we've done, what we've learned about ourselves and about others, is an illusion, a passing nightmare. Wars have no memory, and nobody has the courage to understand them until there are no voices left to tell what happened, until the moment comes when we no longer recognize them and they return, with another face and another name, to devour what they left behind.

Slušaju?i ga, palo mi je na pamet da mi u tom trenutku zadovoljstvo može priuštiti samo da zapalim pola svijeta i izgorim s njim.

A few days later, shortly after midnight, Cabestany's warehouse in Pueblo Nuevo burned down to its foundations. And for free.

Las guerras no tienen memoria y nadie se atreve a comprenderlas hasta que ya no quedan voces para contar lo que pasó, hasta que llega el momento en que no se las reconoce y regresan, con otra cara y otro nombre, a devorar lo que dejaron atrás»

The myth that "emotions are bad" puts the blame in the wrong place. Emotions aren't inherently bad or unruly, but sin has devastated our emotions.

sometimes you can't help but crave some ruin in what you love.

You can be many miles away and press a button on a keyboard, and it can cause devastation.

But of course it was precisely this destruction process of my beloved Steinway that I had wanted.

You say you can't imagine what it must be like to lose a child. Let me make it easy for you. It's the beginning of the end of your world.

I thought you'd be there waiting for me … What greeted me instead was the lingering stench of ashes and the empty sockets of our ruined home. Samuel Puterman on his return to Warsaw, 1945

blew out 5 million acres of fields, and in the space of a day carried off twice as much dirt as had been excavated by the United States in the decade it took to dig the Panama Canal.

Real love will take you far beyond yourself; and therefore real love will devastate you.

I can't lose you again. It really will kill me this time.

La devastación me agarró desprevenido. Hay una diferencia entre perder algo que sabías que tenías y perder algo que descubriste que tenías. Uno es una desilusión. El otro se siente como perder una pieza de ti mismo.

Maybe if I'd had some practice, maybe if I'd had more devastation in my life, I would be more prepared to go on.