Quotes About Devastation

One night. It took one night to lose everything. But maybe everything was nothing if it could be lost so fast.

Buildings had collapsed-once tall and mighty, now headstones for the thousands buried underneath.

Real love hurts, real love makes you totally open and vulnerable. Real love will take you far behind yourself,and therefore real love will devastate you. If love doesn't shatter you, you will not know love

Crown Prince Walther of Morrighan was dead... Silence choked the crowd for a moment and then mother after mother, sister, father, wife, brother, fell to their knees.

Look. Take a good long look and remember the lives lost. Real people that someone loved. Before you go about the task I have given you, see the devastation and remember what they did. What could happen again. Know what is at stake. Dragons eventually wake and crawl from their dark dens.

But at that moment—the moment of realization that life as I'd been living it would have to end—I felt devastation unlike any I'd ever known. The barrenness was indescribable. The emptiness that opened up in me seemed to stretch on forever; I could see no end to it, could find no source of comfort in it, could not imagine any way out.

So, in this life, she was doing her bit to save the planet. Or at least to monitor the steady devastation of the planet in order to alert people to the facts of environmental crisis. That was potentially depressing but also a good and ultimately fulfilling thing to do, she imagined. There was purpose. There was meaning.

Almost all of it was a reconstruction of recent vintage, part of the government's effort to increase tourist revenue after the devastation of the Cultural Revolution.

Ontare ruina!

The disaster ruins everything, all the while leaving everything intact

Quand tout est dit, ce qui reste à dire est le désastre, ruine de parole, défaillance par l'écriture, rumeur qui murmure : ce qui reste sans reste.

Pouring breakfast cereal into a bowl, he saw his life crashing down in smoking ruins.

This is what I know. I look like my father. My father disappeared when he was seventeen years old. Hannah once told me that there is something unnatural about being older than your father ever got to be. When you can say that at the age of seventeen, it's a different kind of devastating.

la guerra convirtió la tierra en un cementerio.

Rage and grief are savage companions, but despair is the final undoing.

But then there would be no city left to claim. Scorched earth is a policy, it's just not usually the best one.

No matter who won this battle, a race would be wiped out.

Sometimes, it is not the kings and queen who make for the most fascinating history but the shadowy souls who happen to be in the right place and the right time. While Marie certainly would not have considered herself lucky to have lived through such a devastating period, history is fortunate that she remained still for long enough to record the events that raged on around her.

há alturas em que a beleza é tão devastadora que magoa.

Dil-o-Dilli donon agar hain kharaab Pa kuchh lutf is ujde ghar mein bhi hain

to have solely one thought, but it to be capable to destroy the universe.

I wondered what exactly the war had accomplished. Men had fought great battles: the Battle of the Bulge, the battle for Monte Casino, the battle for the beaches, for God and country, for God and freedom, for God and a pure race. They had left hundreds of cities in ruins and their people without shelter or food.

Afghanistan had collapsed and everyone's life now lies broken at different levels within the rubble.

Twenty-four hours ago, this had been a place where people lived, worked and planned for the future. Now it was a scene of carnage.