Devastation Quotes

“I want you to write like Alice Munro.  Stir the world.  Make people see the horror; show them their suffering relatives; show them that they’re not safe.  Let them know that they can’t even begin to imagine what’s happening here.  By making my reality more compelling than reality television is the only way you’ll get their attention.
Psychotic and cynical.
Who can tell the difference anymore between a severed head and a special effect?  Can you?  I doubt it, and I know you’ve been in the middle of it all and seen the damage first-hand.”
― John Payton Foden, Magenta

“Thierry was one.  An award winning documentary film producer based in Paris.  Her curiosity was not driven so much by his fame or talent, with which he was generously endowed on both counts, but by his elusiveness.  He had a reputation for chasing the most complicated and dangerous assignments that others considered too risky.  He had money for all occasions.  He had a reputation among men as a man with a reputation among women.”
― John Payton Foden, Magenta

“Forgive my indifference; I'd rather be distant than devastated.”
― Ahmed Mostafa

“When I was a cop me and my partner saw plenty of his handiwork. Yeah, we pulled his handiwork out a the water by the docks, we saw it in the bloody alleys, we saw it in cars burnt up on the side of the roads…”
― A.G. Russo, Bangtails, Grifters, and a Liar's Kiss

“And in such bliss does devastation grow.”
― Roshani Chokshi, The Star-Touched Queen

“Even in ruin, there is beauty.”
― Kimber Silver

“He thought perhaps it was a woman's way, to come out of such a storm of emotion and pain as if she were a ship emerging onto calm seas. She had seemed, not at peace, but emptied of sorrow. As if she had run out of that particular emotion and no other one arose to take its place.”
― Robin Hobb, Blood of Dragons

“Some days punch us in the gut so hard it seems we can feel the whole universe gasp with despair.”
― Curtis Tyrone Jones

“Real love will take you far beyond yourself; and therefore real love will devastate you.”
― Ken Wilber

“The universe had to fall apart into dust first
to become its majestic, infinite self.
What makes you think
this trauma, this devastation,
won't be the making of
a more powerful you, too?”
― Nikita Gill, Where Hope Comes From: Poems of Resilience, Healing, and Light

“If I have not been both soothed by love and on the opposite extreme left devastated by it, I will never understand its power nor respect its majesty.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“I don't cry, as a rule. Nothing good comes out of fighting, i'll give you that, but crying? For a moment, you might feel a touch of release, but for me that's always been followed hard by waves of shame, and helplessness. I hate feeling helpless. I'll do anything to avoid it.”
― Brittany Cavallaro, A Study in Charlotte

“Men are accustomed to making objective assessments of devastating situations, as long as they are not immersed in them. Rare is he who maintains objectivity in the midst of personal affliction.”
― Michael D. O'Brien, The Fool of New York City: A Novel

“You expect certain things to always be there, like the bakery on the corner, or the boy you grew up with. But when the very ground can eat you alive without warning, what's to say the ocean won't dry up? Or the stars won't suddenly shut off? Nothing is forever.”
― Stacey Lee, Outrun the Moon

“He was a thousand cuts happening all at once. Devastation made of hair as blue as dark ocean waves, and lips sharp as cracked glass that would delightedly cut her.”
― Stephanie Garber, Once Upon a Broken Heart

“When we are blinded by our frustration and devastation we become oblivious to the life preserver floating inches away from us. If we take a minute to think positive, utilize our faith, and become proactive, we are able to think rationally and clearly. We then will recognize the life preserver which will keep us afloat and help us get to our destination.”
― Lindsey Rietzsch, Successful Failures: Recognizing the Divine Role That Opposition Plays in Life's Quest for Success

“I could break things in a thousand ways--anything from surgical dismantling as meticulous as a bomb squad work to wrecking ball style mass destruction. If I broke a thing, it stayed broke. If I broke one of my things, I lived with the pieces, or replaced it.”
― Joshilyn Jackson, The Opposite of Everyone

“What I am recommending to the unmarried person, therefore, comes straight out of the Word: Stay out of bed unless you there alone! I know that advice is difficult to put into practice today. But I didn't make the rules. I'm just passing them along. God's moral laws are not designed to oppress us or deprive us of pleasure. They are there to protect us from the devastation of sin, including disease, heartache, divorce, and spiritual death. Abstinence before marriage and fidelity afterward is the Creator's own plan, and no one has devised a way to improve on it.”
― James C. Dobson, Life on the Edge: A Young Adult's Guide to a Meaningful Future

“The line between anger and sadness is so thin. I had learned that fear can become rage, but rage can so easily shatter into devastation. The fractures spiderwebbed across my heart.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Serpent and the Wings of Night

“I felt like a still live fish on ice in a butcher’s counter on Friday morning.

- On Cats”
― Bukowski

“Violation Of The Law Of Universe Brings Devastation Results To The Society”
― Sunday Adelaja

“Heart is a shield and a communication tool, behind it, you can do a whole lot of evil.”
― Kamini Arichandran

“I don’t care’ is code for ‘I do care.’ But to deny the code is in fact ‘code’ for ‘I don’t want to be hurt.’ And in life, no amount of ‘coding’ is going to keep that from happening.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“He's like a painting that from a distance is beautiful, but when you get up close it distorts and melds into something ugly, something dark.”
― Erica M. Chapman, Teach Me to Forget

“The singular reason for calamities, destructions, failures and devastations is seen in ignorance of Gods people.”
― Sunday Adelaja

“It is entirely possible to be deeply sorry because of the devastation which sin has wrought in our lives—and yet not repent.”
― Billy Graham, Billy graham in quotes

“If those who cause destruction have come to be ‘newsworthy’, and those who heal the devastation of that destruction have come to be less than ‘noteworthy’, has our thirst to be entertained become the truly destructive thing?”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The earth and all life upon it endured and was devastated by what can only be described as a globally distributed firestorm at the onset of the Younger Dryas around 12,800 years ago. In this planetary debacle, 10 million square kilometers of trees and other plant matter burned.
To put that in perspective, the United Kingdom was in a state of traumatic shock in late June and early July 2018 after 4,942 acres of Lancashire moorland were consumed by wildfires. That's an area of just 20 square kilometers, but firefighters and emergency services from seven counties were utterly overwhelmed by the blaze and the military had to be brought in to assist.
Meanwhile, a report in the Sacramento Bee dated July 2, 2018, opined that California's wildfire season had started early, with two 'major fires' already fought at huge expense and requiring evacuation of local residents. These two fires were estimated to have consumed 85,000 acres, which sounds an awful lot but in fact converts to just 344 square kilometers.
The previous years, 2017, was California's most destructive wildfire season then on record, with a total of 1.25 million acres burned. The cost of dealing with the disaster, including fire suppression, insurance, and recovery expenditures, was estimated at US$180 billion. Yet 1.38 million acres converts to just 5,585 square kilometers--an insignificant fraction (around 0.05 percent--that is, a twentieth of 1 percent) of the 10 million square kilometers destroyed in the Younger Dryas wildfires.”
― Graham Hancock, America Before: The Key to Earth's Lost Civilization

“I knew intimately how devastating it was to lose someone you love, how your entire life can change – or end – in the blink of an eye.”
― C J Cooke

“God is the master of every storm, particularly those that rage within us.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough