Devastating Quotes

“Lev was a man who appreciated the finer things in life. To him, Maeve was one of them.”
― A.G. Russo, Bangtails, Grifters, and a Liar's Kiss

“When I die, I'm going to tell God everything.”
― Zoulfa Katouh, As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow

“For, after all, you do grow up, you do outgrow your ideals, which turn to dust and ashes, which are shattered into fragments; and if you have no other life, you just have to build one up out of these fragments.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights

“I do not view suicide as wicked, just terribly sad. There is only one death, but it is like a stone cast into a pond - the ripples stretch far. Such an act must leave a burden of sorrow, guilt, shame and confusion on an entire family. A natural death, such as my father suffered, is hard enough to deal with. A decision to end one's life must be still more devastating for those left behind. I cannot imagine the degree of hopelessness someone must feel to contemplate such an act.”
― Juliet Marillier, Heart's Blood

“All too often, we mask truth in artifice, concealing ourselves for fear of losing the ones we love or prolonging a deception for those we wish to expose. We hide behind that which brings us comfort from pain and sadness or use it to repel a truth too devastating to accept.”
― Emily Thorne

“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, An Autumn's Journey: Deep Growth in the Grief and Loss of Life's Seasons

“I cross the street without an arm to hold me back.”
― Adam Silvera, They Both Die at the End

“There was this constant urge in me to tear my insides apart,
I didn't know why. By the time I made my mind that it was impossible for me
to do, there alighted the fear, haunting me with the words that rang
constantly in my head, "You're not brave enough".



I didn't feel devastated, I felt the urge to be devastated.”
― Sanhita Baruah

“In the hands of a cruel person, honesty can be a lethal weapon.”
― Wayne Gerard Trotman

“Pain is the perfecting of our souls, for it cuts in order to create, it hurts in order to hone, and it knocks us down with great force so that our resolve to get up becomes unimaginably greater than the force that knocked us down. And although we have come to know it differently, such is the spirit of pain.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“If I am selfish I might have achieved great things, but achieving great things out of my selfishness is one of the most devastating ways I can think of to fail.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“I don’t want normal and easy and simple. I want painful, difficult, devastating, life-changing, extraordinary love.”
― Nitya Prakash

“wondering and wandering
i have learned is better in fiction.”
― Berklie Novak-Stolz, Lazarus Rises: Amongst other things

“This was probably the most horrifying thing Eric could have said to him, not because it ended his life, but because it didn't. He knew then that the secret for which he had sacrificed his own happiness and the happiness of another person had been trivial all along, and worthless. He and Marianne could have walked down the school corridors hand in hand, and with what consequence? Nothing really.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“You never get possessed forever.. However painful and devastating the state/period is, you will get back to normal someday..”
― honeya

“Diana can read power levels,” Astrid said. “Did she ever…”
Sam nodded. “She said the baby is a three bar. As a fetus. Who knows what it will be when it’s born. Or as it grows. Diana’s only, like, four or five months along. I should know exactly, but I forget. When she would talk about it I would kind of, you know.” He made a shivering move, like it all gave him the creeps.
Astrid shook her head in disbelief. “Really. That’s the part of all this that makes you squirm: pregnancy.”
“She made me touch her, you know, stomach. And she talked about her, um, her things.” He pointed at his chest and whispered, “Nipples.”
“Yeah,” Astrid said dryly. “I could see where that would be devastating.”
― Michael Grant, Fear

“I hope you remember to miss me when all this is over.”
― Ann Liang, This Time It's Real

“You have already excommunicated half the village because they will not pay their tithes. So why wouldn't they come to us? Can you excommunicate them twice over? As for the sick, most are here because the Mother Church in her great charity has already damned them and driven them out. The churches are emptier than a pauper's purse and little wonder, for men get more solace from the alewives than from their priests. More stand now outside your church than within it. What difference does it make if you forbid them burial in your churchyard, since they cannot afford the soul-scot you charge them to be buried there? Those who still look to God make their prayers far away from the church, where the air is sweeter and their voices are not smothered beneath your hypocrisy and greed.”
― Karen Maitland, The Owl Killers

“My volcano of compress anger was about to erupt in school, and it would take more than five years for my molten lava to be brought under control, which was through the loss of my sight. However, shouldn’t there be a way of detecting and reaching out to kids like me before there is a massive problem? Why wait until there is a devastating eruption before we intervene?”
― Drexel Deal, The Fight of My Life is Wrapped Up in My Father

“COVID-19 is devastating Hawaii’s economy.”
― Steven Magee

“It was devastating and painful to watch how they broke something so beautiful and complete. Just to fix something that was already terribly broken.”
― Akshay Vasu, Between the Abyss and Paradise

“Everyone’s out looking for you, son. You want to get back home, right now.”
― KJ Parker

“Our most devastating disabilities wholly harnessed in the service of our calling are transformed into the greatest possibilities in the conquering of that calling.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The biggest risk I see to Hawaiian Electric are its current and past workers testifying against them regarding their power line maintenance before the devastating Lahaina fire.”
― Steven Magee

“The speed of light,' he explained. 'More specifically, how many metres per second light travels. I had it made after Aura was... gone. After you left for the west coast. I wanted something tangible I could hold on to. To remember. That I wasn't alone. I want you to take it. so that you remember. While you're away. You're never alone.' Jack leaned forward and ran a fingertip over the number sequence. 'The light in the stars that you'll look up and see in Denmark is travelling from the past. Some of that light started its journey when she was_' He looked to the dimming sky. Waited out the emotion. 'I want you to remember that some of the starlight you'll see every night in Denmark started its journey when Aura was still with us.' He finished.
Esther clutched the keyring in her palm.”
― Holly Ringland, The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding

“It’s quite a dangerous act you know, to be in love… Especially in such a devastating existence.”
― Frances Woodard, Strings of Fate

“Our compassion that night had been the final nail in our coffins. It was so ironically sad.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, Origin

“It had seemed then that her daughter's absence had flooded Eleonor, flooded them both, and that with their words they were trying to bail themselves out. But their words were eggcups, and what they were describing was an ocean of absence too vast to be contained in such modest vessels.”
― Diane Setterfield, Once Upon a River

“And then Letty broke the world.”
― RF Kuang