Devastating Life Quotes

#1. I don't want normal and easy and simple. I want painful, difficult, devastating, life-changing, extraordinary love.

Olivia

#2. If you're in the middle of a monumental and devastating life crisis, hang in there. It'll be over in about an hour. Two hours, tops.

Anthony Rubino Jr.

#3. 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

#4. I'm constantly exploring spirituality, sexuality, different aspects of love, whether it's romantic love or the love you have for your children. And love can be as devastating and destructive as it can be rejuvenating and life-giving. I guess I try to capture all of that.

Madonna Ciccone

#5. The reason we are faced with such a devastating situation is because humans have separated themselves from nature and the natural web of life. Our lifestyle is not in harmony with the natural world and it has affected the planet on nearly every level.

Joseph P. Kauffman

#6. We now operate in a world in which we can assume neither competence nor good faith from the authorities, and the consequences of this simple, devastating realization is the defining feature of American life at the end of this low, dishonest decade.

Christopher L. Hayes

#7. People with theories of life are, perhaps, the most relentless of their kind, for no time or place is sacred from their devastating elucidations.

Agnes Repplier

#8. An absolutely devastating ridicule of all that is false, primitive, and vicious in current American life: the abuses of power, hero worship, aimless violence, materialistic obsession, intolerance, and every form of hypocrisy.

Terry Southern

#9. Love has an immense ability to help heal the devastating wounds that life sometimes deals us. Love also enhances our sense of connection to the larger world. Loving responsiveness is the foundation of a truly compassionate, civilized society.

Sue Johnson

#10. The weird, weird thing about devastating loss is that life actually goes on. When you're faced with a tragedy, a loss so huge that you have no idea how you can live through it, somehow, the world keeps turning, the seconds keep ticking.

James Patterson

#11. Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework
an inability to endure pain or discipline or pursue any self-sustained goal of any sort, a devastating boredom with life.

Betty Friedan

#12. Some people simply bury their heads in the sand and refuse to think about the sorrow of the world, but this is an unwise course, because, if we are entirely unprepared, the tragedy of life can be devastating.

Karen Armstrong

#13. If by 'devastating' you mean that you should fear for your life, then yeah. You're right." I jerked open the door. "Good night, Adrian.

Richelle Mead

#14. You're gonna meet tons of different people throughout your life, and it's totally worth it to stick your neck out a little bit if you like someone. Even when you get shot down, it seems really devastating, but it's not in the long run.

Pete Wentz

#15. Each loss had been devastating in its own ways and had changed her life.

Rachel Gibson

#16. A choice made having devastating consequences for another is really not a choice. It is an act.

Beem Weeks

#17. Presidents and prime ministers, whether they live in the rich or the poor world, are insulated and isolated from the devastating impact of global poverty. They read the statistics, but they rarely witness at first hand the misery and degradation of life on a dollar a day.

Jonathan Dimbleby

#18. Infidelity doesn't have to be the most devastating that can happen in a marriage.

Carole Matthews

#19. I guess we'll never know exactly what ... the reasons behind the losses we experience in this life. But being angry doesn't make them any less devastating. It only robs us of the happiness and love we can experience. Only forgiveness can set us free.

Christene Houston

#20. Getting pregnant wasn't easy, and I found that devastating. I really beat myself up for waiting so long when I'd always wanted children and family had been the basis of my happiness my whole life.

Emily Procter

#21. What I really believe is the only hopeful relation between our life and the whole of life is one of reverence and respect and of feeling at one with it. The other attitude which is the one our society is based on is devastating and it is killing the earth and it is killing us too.

W.S. Merwin

#22. When families are strong and stable, so are children - showing higher levels of wellbeing and more positive outcomes. But when things go wrong - either through family breakdown or a damaged parental relationship - the impact on a child's later life can be devastating.

Iain Duncan Smith

#23. One of the things that is devastating is I realise I haven't been living a different life than when I was, like, 12. I'm shocked at how reclusive I've been since then. I was unaware of it until recently.

Gus Van Sant

#24. Disappointment is devastating, even if it's something that you didn't really expect to occur.

Hilary Grossman

#25. Nothing remains idle and thrives. Life needs a moving force to prevent the devastating effects of stagnancy. That is why life employs change.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#26. What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating. I didn't really know what to do for a few months. I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down ... I was a very public failure.

Steve Jobs

#27. I've never seen beauty
so devastating
as in the lines
that trace our hope
and fall from the stars.

Jessica Kristie

#28. Everything we come across becomes a part of us. It doesn't matter how small or insignificant it is ... or how devastating. One story here, one story there, that's what I see when I look back at my life. An accumulation of everything I went through.

Bhaskaryya Deka

#29. Peace is not just safety or lack of war, violence, conflict and contention. Peace comes from knowing that the Savior knows who we are, knows that we have faith in Him, love Him, and keep His commandments, even and especially amid life's devastating trials and tragedies.

Quentin L. Cook

#30. Life is long and dumb and devastating. People should believe whatever they need to believe to get by.

Katie Coyle

#31. The trouble is that no devastating or redeeming fires have ever burnt in my life ... My life began by flickering out.

Ivan Goncharov

#32. There is no insanity so devastating in man's life as utter sanity.

William Allen White

#33. Water is the formless potential out of which creation emerged. It is the ocean of unconsciousness enveloping the islands of consciousness. Water bathes us at birth and again at death, and in between it washes away sin. It is by turns the elixir of life or the renewing rain or the devastating flood.

Scott Sanders

#34. Real life isn't a series of interconnected events occurring one after another like beads strung on a necklace. Life is actually a series of encounters in which one event may change those that follow in a wholly unpredictable, even devastating way.

Michael Crichton

#35. Having no expectations for some people in your life can be depressing, if not devastating. But with others, it's what is necessary. The hard part is not just figuring out which one applies, but accepting it.

Sarah Dessen

#36. There's nothing more devastating in a marriage than when a spouse puts their work, their desires above their partner's heart.

Solange Nicole

#37. Life is actually a series of encounters in which one event may change those that follow in a wholly unpredictable, even devastating way. Malcolm

Michael Crichton

#38. 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

#39. I remember when I was 33 or 34, it was devastating because I realized I wasn't a kid anymore. The great thing about 40 was that I really felt like I had life experience and knew what I was doing now.

Jennifer Lopez

#40. The seizure of passionate love can be, in such a context, only illicit, breaking in upon the order of one's dutiful life in virtue as a devastating storm.

Joseph Campbell

#41. As economic life relies more and more on the Internet, the potential for small bands of hackers to launch devastating attacks on the world economy is growing.

Evgeny Morozov

#42. If I get up just one less time than the number of times I've been knocked down, I have done one of the most devastating things possible; I have halted my life at that very spot.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#43. No matter the life-shattering circumstance that delivers the devastating blow to our spirit, God is bigger. He is faithful and unchanging, merciful and consistent with His offer to us, that through it all, we will be comforted, we will be loved, we will be HELD.

Henri J.M. Nouwen

#44. Real life is always quieter and anticlimactic somehow. But devastating all the same.

Courtney Summers

#45. The moralism that passes for Christian faith today is a devastating hobby if you have no intention of submitting your life fully to God and chasing him in Christ.

Matt Chandler