Devastated Quotes

• What do you do when disappointment comes? When it weighs on you like a rock, you can either let it press you down until you become discouraged, even devastated, or you can use it as a stepping-stone to better things.

  Joyce Meyer

  Disappointment, Rocks, Use

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• In desperate love, we always invent the characters of our partners, demanding they be what we need of them, and then feeling devastated when they refuse to perform the role we created in the first place.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Love, Heartbreak, Character

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.20, A&C Black

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• My faith is the only thing that never fails me.

  Hayley Williams

  Education, Wags, Failing

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• Look I eat really well and I work out, but I also indulge when I want to. I don't starve myself in an extremist way. You're not taking away my coffee or my dairy or my glass of wine because I'd be devastated.

  Jennifer Aniston

  Coffee, Wine, Glasses

  "Jennifer Aniston's Beauty Advice: 'Stop Eating S**t'". UK Harper’s Bazaar Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 31, 2010.

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• Life's all about making choices. You've made the choice to pick up the pieces and keep going, even when you've been devastated over and over again.

  Heidi Marshall

  Choices, Pieces, Made

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• I mean, I felt terrible. And in the beginning, I mean, I was completely devastated. I mean, can you imagine the kind of guilt that you would feel, and the responsibility?

  Monica Lewinsky

  Mean, Responsibility, Guilt

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• Everyone can make a real difference. Your voice is needed in a global movement that can change their world.

  Pierce Brosnan

  Real, Voice, Differences

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• I'm too into skateboarding to be devastated by anything.

  Jamie Campbell Bower

  Skateboarding

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• I was devastated when 'Days' let me go and couldn't help but feel it was my fault. What did I do wrong? What happened? It sucks. You always think it's your fault.

  Lindsay Hartley

  Thinking, Faults, Helping

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• I was devastated by the loss of my job in March, although I can understand why it occurred.

  Steven Hatfill

  Jobs, Loss, Lost Friendship

  "Text of Hatfill's Statement", www.foxnews.com. August 11, 2002.

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• There are no words to express how sad and devastated I am. I have lost one of my dearest friends, and the industry has lost a giant.

  Farrah Fawcett

  Lost Ones, Giants, Dearest Friend

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• Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn.

  T. H. White

  Inspirational, Education, Dream

  T.H. WHITE (1958). “THE ONCE AND FUTURE KING”

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• I feel like everyone else in this country today. I am utterly devastated.

  Tony Blair

  Country, Today, Feels

  "Out of the mouth of Blair". www.theguardian.com. April 26, 2002.

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

  James F. Byrnes

  Workout, Land, Our Generation

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• I was totally devastated for four years in the mid '60s when l tried to buck the tide.

  Tommy Rettig

  Years, Four, Bucks

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• I'm horrified to admit that I just love Salinger. I was devastated to find out that other people feel the same way.

  Ethan Hawke

  People, Way, Salinger

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• Well, remember what you said, because in a day or two, I'll have a witty and blistering retort! You'll be devastated THEN

  Bill Watterson

  Witty, Two, Remember

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• I had a great many sex and love cases where people were absolutely devastated when somebody with whom they were compulsively in love didn't love them back. They were killing themselves with anxiety and depression.

  Albert Ellis

  Sex, People, Anxiety

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• You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then - to learn.

  T. H. White

  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

  T. H. White (2011). “The Once and Future King”, p.161, Penguin

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• My father's death, my move, and my frightening and difficult delivery created a tremendous amount of stress, pain, and sadness for me. I was practically devastated beyond recovery.

  Brooke Shields

  Pain, Father, Stress

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• The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism.

  Taylor Caldwell

  Memories, Ideas, Atheism

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• A good two years after Hurricane Katrina I remember feeling so devastated and so ignorant that there was so much damage still left. I felt like here I was an American and this is an American city and the government hasn't done enough and people haven't given back enough. Everyone forgot and the city was lying in waste.

  AnnaLynne McCord

  Lying, Government, Years

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• To not sing with an orchestra, to not be able to communicate through my voice, which I've done all my life, and not to be able to phrase lyrics and give people that kind of joy, I think I would be totally devastated.

  Barbara Walters

  Thinking, Voice, People

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• I have watched people who have nothing to do with the film business, but who have become part of the circle for a short period of time. They can be truly devastated when the film wraps and people leave.

  Jacqueline Bisset

  Circles, People, Film

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• I couldn't walk down any street in Britain without being laughed at. It was a nightmare. My children were devastated because their dad was a figure of ridicule.

  David Icke

  Dad, Children, Nightmare

  "Beset by lizards" by Jon Ronson, www.theguardian.com. March 17, 2001.

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