Quotes About Devastation

Had anyone told me that my entire life would change course between one heartbeat and the next, I would have laughed. From blissful to tragic, innocent to ruined? Please. But that's all it took. One heartbeat. A blink, a breath, a second, and everything I knew and loved was gone.

General William T. Sherman

The Germans dropped tens of thousands of tons of bombs on Stalingrad but most explosions contributed little more than reconfiguration of existing rubble.

My beautiful proof lies all in ruins.

War is a hurricane that destroys a lot in its path.

Hurricane Irma devastated the U.S. Virgin Islands, leveling homes, knocking out power, and turning the landscape into a 'battered wasteland' where some say media coverage was minimal and help was late to arrive.

German militarism and Nazism have devastated twice in our generation the lands of German neighbors.

The survivors (of a nuclear war) would envy the dead.

Bombs do not choose. They will hit everything.

Nothing should be left to an invaded people except their eyes for weeping.

The war has ruined us for everything.

In nuclear war, all men are cremated equal.

On April 29, 1986, the day the library burned

The Great Fire of London] hesitated, and it finally began to flicker out. But four-fifths of London had been burned...Londoner John Evelyn, weeping, wrote in his diary, "London was, but is no more.

Lo que sucede a continuación pasa tan deprisa y es tan absurdo que ni siquiera puedo moverme para impedirlo. Mags se levanta, le da un beso en los labios a Finnick y se dirige cojeando a la niebla. Su cuerpo se ve sacudido de inmediato por salvajes contorsiones y cae al suelo en una horrible danza.

I walk to the approximate site of the bakery Peeta's family owned. Nothing much left but the melted lump of the oven. Peeta's parents, his two older brothers — none of them made it to 13. Fewer than a dozen of what passed for District 12's well-to-do escaped the fire. Peeta would have nothing to come home to, anyway. Except me . . .

A bomb explodes. Time is allowed for people to rush to the aid of the wounded. Then a second, more powerful bomb kills them as well.

The poorest country in South America, Bolivia, had been devastated by neoliberal economic policies.

There is no loss bigger than losing your manuscript, not even love.

He was the kind of boy to crush your heart into dust then snort it off the table in front of you.

I knew what he felt. The huge buoyant air sack of love that filled his body had just exploded and the collapse was devastating.

He felt as though his heart were a bomb, a complicated bomb that would result in a simple explosion, wrecking the world without rocking it.

Anyone who engages in the practice of psychotherapy confronts every day the devastation wrought by the teachings of religion.

A thunderhead threatens. A thunderhead looms. Surely I spark with lightning, but my lightning never strikes. Yes, I possess the ability to wreak devastation on humanity, and on the Earth if I chose to, but why would I choose such a thing? Where would be the justice in that? I am, by definition, pure justice, pure loyalty. This world is a flower I hold in my palm. I would end my own existence rather than crush it.