Quotes About Devastation

The unhappiness of a wife with a good husband is much more devastating than the unhappiness of a wife with a bad husband.

Anyone who saw Nagasaki would suddenly realize that they'd been kept in the dark by the United States government as to what atomic bombs can do.

An audience sabotages my freedom, devastates my innocence, corrupts my integrity, inhibits my great joy - and of course gives me further to fall.

And they would all smile at the beauty of destruction.

20 million people thrown off of health insurance, prescription drug prices raising for seniors, privatization of Medicare: devastation. And we've got to fight back against that.

Madness, mayhem, erotic vandalism, devastation of innumerable souls - while we scream and perish, History licks a finger and turns the page.

To think that someone we loved, trusted, opened our home to could do this to our daughter and granddaughter is beyond belief.

Hope can be the most wonderful thing in the world or it can crush your heart like an eggshell.

Upon hearing the news I felt completely emptied. Emptied of life, feeling, and hope. I felt as if my very soul had left my body.

Humanity is the cancer of nature.

I was with a famous comedian when a young fan walked up and asked for an autograph. The comedian blew him off. I'll never forget the look on the young boy's face. He was devastated.

Every death is like the burning of a library.

Imagine a man without lungs. Imagine earth without Amazon rainforest.

I had no idea that I was…destroying people.

Blood-coloured bottlebrush trees and scarlet hibiscus looked too bright for this devastated world.

My dancing is only entertainment for rich people who applaud as long as you don't show them anything real. I mean, human misery and the industrial devastation of the planet. I've been training my entire life for an audience that requires beauty without truth. I've submerged myself in myself, becoming an island of form without mind, in an exhibition of naïve vanity. The

you can't talk about death without celebrating life. How amid the devastation, many still manage to stay erect in a world that's slumping around them. How despite the bloodshed, some manage, heroically, not only to push on but also to push back. How in death there is love.

War! And I know nothing of it! This is the end of everything.

What I was trying to convey there was the kind of waste land that was left after the war. It was a bit like one always thinks of war, you know, stark scenery and no birds, no trees, no leaves, nothing living. And just emptiness.

By the breaking in of enraged merciless armies, flourishing countries have been laid waste, great numbers of people have perished in a short time, and many more have been pressed with poverty and grief.

Since woodchipping began 32 years ago, Tasmanians have watched as one extraordinary place after another has been sacrificed. Beautiful places, holy places, lost not only to them, but forever.

Back in the 1980s parts of our country were devastated by de-industrialisation. This wave of globalisation and the first fruits of technological innovation destroyed industrial jobs or exported them to low-wage economies. The loss of work had a devastating impact.

There could have been more planning in New Orleans, but you look at all the devastation that happened there - have we gotten to 3,000 deaths yet? For that magnitude of a disaster, that's not all that bad.

We decided to go ahead and thaw my eggs that I had retrieved at the mansion, and none of them survived the thaw. That was pretty devastating for me because all this time I though I had an amazing insurance policy, and it didn't work out.