Quotes About Devastation

There is no gesture more devastating than the back turning away.

Sullivan and his army arrived at Genesee river, where they destroyed every article of the food kind that they could lay their hands on. A part of our corn they burnt, and threw the remainder into the river. They burnt our houses, killed what few cattle and horses they could find, destroyed our fruit trees, and left nothing but the bare soil and timber.

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.

Blight is like a cancer. This is one of those all-or-nothing things.

Political awareness without activism means looking at the devastation, your face turned toward the center of things. Activism can generate hope because in itself it constitutes an alternative and turns away from the corruption at the center to face the wild possibilities and the heroes at the edges or at your side.

The tears of our devastation fertilize the soil of our evolution.

Grief had destroyed Rosalie's parents. It seemed that God had reached down and scooped out the middle of the family as casually as if he were eating a watermelon.

In these crises, there breaks out an epidemic that, in all earlier epochs, would have seemed an absurdity — the epidemic of over-production. Society suddenly finds itself put back into a state of momentary barbarism; it appears as if a famine, a universal war of devastation, had cut off the supply of every means of subsistence; industry and commerce seem to be destroyed. And why? Because there is too much civilization, too much means of subsistence, too much industry, too much commerce

Everywhere, within man and without, there is devastation, instability, chaos, and evidence of some prolonged rout.

What men yearn for they often destroy.

I can't even think of the words of what I'm feeling. This man [Prince] was my everything, we had a family. I am beyond deeply saddened and devastated.

What you tend to find in the personal lives of brilliant men is devastation akin to a nuclear bomb going off.

By pouring money and goods into devastated regions, foreign aid workers sometimes compound the disruption and debauch the survivors.

One neutron bomb in the morning may just ruin your whole morning.

Art keeps me alive. I've obviously been devastated or heartbroken all my life, since my mother's death.

When my mother and my grandmother died three months apart, I knew my world was over.

Here is the repeated image of the lover destroyed.

The destruction, it is just very heart-rendering.

I think, for me, nuclear is just the power, the devastation is very important to me.

Ecological devastation is the excrement, so to speak, of man's power worship.

Just twenty-one years after Columbus's first landing in the Caribbean, the vastly populous island that the explorer had renamed Hispaniola was effectively desolate; nearly 8,000,000 people—those Columbus chose to call Indians—had been killed by violence, disease, and despair.

But in the years since the neoliberal project really has been stripped down to what was always its essence: not an economic project at all, but a political project, designed to devastate the imagination, and willing – with it's cumbersome securitization and insane military projects – to destroy the capitalist order itself if that's what it took to make it seem inevitable.

The wealth we create is like a bonfire. If controlled, it can warm our families. If allowed to spread wildly, it can devastate.

Oh God." said Magnus, "they're dead. They're all dead!