Most Devastating Quotes

#1. Of all the most devastating sounds in the universe, silence is the most powerful.

Gerard De Marigny

#2. When animals express their feelings they pour out like water from a spout. Animals' emotions are raw, unfiltered, and uncontrolled. Their joy is the purest and most contagious of joys and their grief the deepest and most devastating. Their passions bring us to our knees in delight and sorrow.

Marc Bekoff

#3. One thing was certain: Human Time was the saddest, maddest, most devastating variety of time that had ever existed. She tried her best to ignore it.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#4. Of all the hardships and deprivations a people can suffer, I am not sure if the deprivations of art and culture are not the most devastating. As meat and rice are food for the body, art and culture are food for the soul. Starve the body and the person dies; starve the soul and the spirit dies.

Gerard De Marigny

#5. Death, displacement and injury caused by conflicts constitute one of the most devastating epidemics of our age.

Widad Akreyi

#6. One of the most devastating symptoms of pride is the unwillingness to forgive.

Wayne Gerard Trotman

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

Carole Matthews

#8. In this condition of the most devastating humiliation, I still possessed the most precious of liberties, that no-one could take away from me: that of deciding who I wanted to be.

Ingrid Betancourt

#9. The mildest criticism of religion is also the most radical and the most devastating one. Religion is man-made.

Christopher Hitchens

#10. The parliament passes some acts or decree which may have the most devastating consequences, yet nobody bears the responsibility for it. Nobody can be called to account." -

Michael Walsh-McLaughlin

#11. Nothing can prepare you for living or working with a sociopathic serial bully. It is the most devastating, draining, misunderstood, and ultimately futile experience imaginable.

Tim Field

#12. Some of the most devastating things that happen to you will teach you the most

Ellen DeGeneres

#13. The most serious charge that can be brought against modern benevolence is that it encourages the perpetuation of defectives, delinquents and dependents. These are the most dangerous elements in the world community, the most devastating curse on human progress and expression.

Margaret Sanger

#14. Hulk Hogan's wife has filed for divorce. This is the most devastating breakup since Pam Anderson and Tommy Lee. And then Pam Anderson and Kid Rock. And soon, Pam Anderson and Rick Salomon.

Chelsea Handler

#15. Not even the most devastating truth can be told; it must be evoked.

Joyce Carol Oates

#16. Impact of this makeover has been to significantly impede historical research, and it is one of Ataturk's most devastating accomplishments.

Eric Bogosian

#17. Defeat is most devastating at the moment of victory Saint Dane

D.J. MacHale

#18. If you have had some taste of success, it's extremely addicting. I think the withdrawal from that is what's most devastating. I don't think it's the success that kills people, it's the withdrawal.

Mary Harron

#19. I'd have to say losing the title to Ali in '74 was the lowest moment in sports for me. It was the most devastating thing in my boxing career, and it still hurts to this day.

George Foreman

#20. And while there are countless ways that we rip ourselves off, there's one way in particular that is, without a doubt, the most rampant and the most devastating of all: we invest everything we've got in believing that we're not good enough.

Jen Sincero

#21. This, it seems to me, is the most devastating weapon of all in a woman's arsenal. If you can encourage the man to be himself, to give you his character, his ways, then you know how to navigate him, and therefore, he will never be able to hide from you

Anonymous

#22. War is the most devastating endemic and epidemic disease the human race has to endure, and yet too little has been done to discover and eliminate its cause by intelligent early control.

Pearl S. Buck

#23. I always thought it was the saddest and most devastating ending. How you could have these enormous dreams that never get met. How without knowing it you could just make yourself smaller over time. I don't want that to happen to me.

Meg Wolitzer

#24. One of the most devastating enemies of the family is radical sex education in the public school. It is more explicit than necessary for the good of the child. Too much sex education too soon causes undue curiosity and obsession with sex.

Beverly LaHaye

#25. The most devastating effect of sin is that by it, we are blinded to it.

Billy Graham

#26. 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

#27. The lies most devastating to our self-esteem are not so much the lies we tell as the lies we live.

Nathaniel Branden

#28. Self-sabotage is the proverbial hammer over the head that finally wakes us up, demanding that we pay attention. For most of us, it takes something devastating to crack us open, to get us out of our minds and into our hearts.

Debbie Ford

#29. Photography's ability to blur truth and fiction is one of its most compelling qualities. But when misused ... this ambiguity can have severe, even lethal consequences ... Photography's ambiguity, beautiful in one context, can be devastating in another.

Taryn Simon

#30. I think Irish women are strong as horses, incredibly loyal and for the most part, funny, witty, bright and optimistic in the face of devastating reality.

Fionnula Flanagan

#31. She had a keen sense of revenge, that knew no limits. When crossed she retaliated with devastating force. Her intelligence made it all the more frightening, because she could quickly perceive what was most valuable to a person and that is what she abused.

Torey L. Hayden

#32. Fear was a devastating thing. It gripped you to the point of being completely incapacitated and swallowed every rational thought that was your given right. The most frightening part of fear was that it had the potential to completely destroy you if you let it.

Rachel Brookes

#33. No one justifies lying, cheating, betraying, promise breaking, devastating and harming strangers. But we expect and we tolerate doing this to the one person in the world we promised most seriously to be faithful to forever: we justify divorce.

Peter Kreeft

#34. If the U.S. succeeds in destroying the revolution, my status will be like that of most Cubans: I'll be up a creek without a paddle. It will be devastating for people worldwide who believe in justice.

Assata Shakur

#35. 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

#36. Separate religion from morality, and you have the true energy for evil within man, the terrible, cruel, devastating, and inhuman principle which naturally lies in his spirit. Here the division of the indivisible punishes itself most awfully.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#37. The poorest residents of the gulf coast were most affected by the devastating hurricanes, and the poorest Americans have shouldered a disproportionate share of the burden in Iraq.

Marty Meehan

#38. Any heroine worth reading about will one day find herself on the moors of a devastating personal crisis. For the most part, we must traverse them alone.
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Erin Blakemore

#39. And that most people would never understand the devastating need of those left behind, the need to know the truth.

Darynda Jones

#40. We've been a country that's been fortunate to be protected by two oceans, to not have serious attacks on our territory for most of our history. And we were unfortunately reminded in a very devastating way of our vulnerability.

Condoleezza Rice