Devastation Quotes

• Did I really want to stay on this road longer, knowing it was only going to end in devastation?

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Inspirational, Heartbreak, Knowing

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2010). “Crescendo”, p.48, Simon and Schuster

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• I know that in life there will be sickness, devastation, disappointments, heartache - it's a given. What's not a given is the way you choose to get through it all. If you look hard enough, you can always find the bright side.

  Rashida Jones

  Disappointment, Heartache, Looks

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• There is an hour, a minute - you will remember it forever - when you know instinctively on the basis of the most inconsequential evidence, that something is wrong. You don't know - can't know - that it is the first of a series of "wrongful" events that will culminate in the utter devastation of your life as you have known it.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Grief, Forever, Bereavement

  "A Widow’s Story" by Joyce Carol Oates, www.newyorker.com. December 13, 2010.

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

  Thomas Ligotti

  Soul, Erotic, Vandalism

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• If you are a card-carrying human being, chances are that you share the same fear as all other humans: the fear of losing love, respect and connection to others. And if you are human, in order to avoid or prevent the pain, trauma and perceived devastation of the loss, you will do anything to avoid your greatest fear from being visited on you.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Pain, Loss, Greatest Fear

  "How Spiritual Leaders Get Through What They’re Going Through: Lie or Leave" by Iyanla Vanzant, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 11, 2010.

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• Man's destiny was to conquer and rule the world, and this is what he's done.. almost. He hasn't quite made it, and it looks as though this may be his undoing. The problem is that man's conquest of the world has itself devastated the world. And in spite of all the mastery we've attained, we don't have enough mastery to stop devastating the world.. or to repair the devastation we've already wrought.

  Daniel Quinn

  Destiny, Men, People

  Daniel Quinn (2009). “Ishmael: A Novel”, p.80, Bantam

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• Devastation could arise insidiously, rather than suddenly, through unsustainable pressure on energy supplies, food, water and other natural resources. Indeed, these pressures are the prime 'threats without enemies' that confront us.

  Martin Rees

  Water, Enemy, Pressure

  "The global village will have its village idiots". The European Interview, www.theeuropean-magazine.com. December 13, 2012.

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• Forgiveness prompted by love is the only way to repair the devastation that so often mars our relationships.

  David Jeremiah

  Wisdom, Love Is, Mars

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• I speak of the war as fruitless; for it is clear that, prosecuted upon the basis of the proclamations of September 22d and September 24th, 1862, prosecuted, as I must understand these proclamations, to say nothing of the kindred blood which has followed, upon the theory of emancipation, devastation, subjugation, it cannot fail to be fruitless in every thing except the harvest of woe which it is ripening for what was once the peerless republic.

  Franklin Pierce

  War, Blood, Republic

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• After Sandy hit, my wife and I saw pictures of the devastation following the hurricane in the news. We immediately wanted to find a way to assist those in need.

  Tyson Chandler

  Wife, Needs, News

  "Tyson Chandler Volunteers In The Rockaways: Talking To The Knicks Star About Sandy Relief Efforts". Huffington Post New York Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 6, 2012.

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• The devastation of neoliberalism is so multi-fold, whether it's violence against women or desperate economic inequality or the destruction of the planet.

  Eve Ensler

  Economic Inequality, Neoliberalism, Violence

  "Avocados and Vaginas". Interview with Joe Saxon, www.thestateofthearts.co.uk. May 16, 2015.

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• So, change lanes. Get your stride back. Don't stay on a road that can only lead you to further devastation

  Rita Zahara

  Life, Lanes, Stride

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• Anyone who engages in the practice of psychotherapy confronts every day the devastation wrought by the teachings of religion.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Atheist, Teaching, Thinking

  "On Self Discovery and Self Responsibility". Interview with George H. Smith, reason.com. May 1973.

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• The pictures we saw before we got down here didn't even touch the reality of what it is like being here. We can be right on the beach with all the devastation and still not be able to imagine what it was like when the wall of water actually came up.

  Connie Sellecca

  Beach, Wall, Reality

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• I can only say that one's individual situation is more real and important to oneself than the devastations of fates and empires especially when they do not vitally affect oneself

  Isaac Rosenberg

  Real, Fate, Important

  Isaac Rosenberg (2015). “Delphi Complete Poetry, Plays, Letters and Prose of Isaac Rosenberg (Illustrated)”, p.401, Delphi Classics

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• Ignorance is not bliss. Ignorance is poverty. Ignorance is devastation. Ignorance is tragedy. And ignorance is illness. It all stems from ignorance.

  Jim Rohn

  Ignorance, Knowledge, Tragedy

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from May 31, 2016

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• The past is never completely lost, however extensive the devastation. Your sorrows are the bricks and mortar of a magnificent temple. What you are today and what you will be tomorrow are because of what you have been.

  Gordon Wright

  Past, Bricks And Mortar, Sorrow

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• No one can truly be prepared for such devastation and pure malevolence, but the United Kingdom can always look to the United States as an ally resolved to stand firm in the war on terrorism.

  Michael C. Burgess

  War, Looks, Kingdoms

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• American culture is torn between our long romance with violence and our terror of the devastation wrought by war and crime and environmental havoc.

  Katherine Dunn

  War, Long, Romance

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• It is in these acts called trivialities that the seeds of joy are forever wasted, until men and women look round with haggard faces at the devastation their own waste has made, and say, the earth bears no harvest of sweetness - calling their denial knowledge.

  George Eliot

  Men, Joy, Forever

  George Eliot (1873). “Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life”, p.148

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• To say there had been a loss was ludicrous; one lost a shoe or a set of keys. You did not suffer the death of a child and say there was a loss. There was a catastrophe. A devastation. A hell.

  Jodi Picoult

  Children, Loss, Keys

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “The Pact: A Love Story”, p.39, Harper Collins

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• Love isn’t only love, sweetheart. It’s hard work, and trust, and tears, with even a few glimpses of devastation. But at the end of each day, if you can still look at the person at your side and can’t imagine anyone else you’d rather have there, the pain and heartache and the ups and downs of love are worth it.

  Nicole Williams

  Pain, Sweet Love, Hard Work

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• Every time we consume meat, eggs or dairy foods, we contribute to ecological devastation and the wasteful misuse of resources on a global scale.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Eggs, Meat, Misuse

  "You Can’t Be a Meat-Eating Environmentalist" by Ingrid Newkirk, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 22, 2010.

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• It’s what we chase but never find. It is the mystery of our lives, the understanding that even when we have everything we want it is one day to leave us. It’s the something unseen, the lurking devastation, the darkness that gives our lives dimension.

  Marisha Pessl

  Life, Giving, Understanding

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• It was all devastating. I'd never dealt with losing anyone close to me, and I didn't know where to put it in my life. I was very young then. Buddy taught me so much in such a short time.

  Waylon Jennings

  Death, Loss, Tragedy

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