Top 593 Devastating Quotes & Sayings

Depriving a parent of parental status is as devastating as a criminal conviction.

Criticism can be devastating. When push comes to shove, we are all very sensitive.

We know that for children, hunger is especially devastating.

But indifference would ultimately commend itself as a devastating weapon.

For all those who experienced it, the Spanish Civil War was devastating.

It's striking that Native Americans evolved no devastating epidemic diseases to give to Europeans, in return for the many devastating epidemic diseases that Indians received from the Old World.

Much more devastating than frustration is the emotion of disappointment.

Divorce in and of itself, and with children, is devastating.

My power is discombobulatingly devastating. It's ludricrous these mortals even attempt to enter my realm.

Maintaining self-respect in the face of a devastating experience is of prime importance.

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

My power is discombobulatingly devastating.

The impact of solitary confinement can have a devastating consequence to the psychology of the people who are affected.

When the anger of the gods is incurred, wealth or power only bring more devastating punishment.

No matter how devastating our struggles, disappointments, and troubles are, they are only temporary.

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

Initially, it was sort of devastating to lose full animation and go limited.

The coronavirus is having a devastating impact on our senior community and their families.

The U.S. has already suffered a devastating attack on September 11, 2001, and may again become a target.

War is devastating, and it leaves its scars for generations.

There is no gesture more devastating than the back turning away.

That was devastating to me: how a bright, energetic kid could turn doomed and desperate.

Carbs are devastating for the brain.

It would be devastating for America if Donald Trump won, and it would be devastating for the anti-gun-violence movement. But we would be on a long list of progressive causes that would be shattered by a Trump win.

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I had this revelation, you are a lot better at the between-song stuff than you are at the song stuff. That was devastating. And I usually find devastating things to be pretty valuable.

We got some devastating reviews on Animal House at the start.

Just learning that you have MS is such a devastating shock.

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

I lost my brother when he was 30, and that was devastating for me. I don't know if I will ever get over it.

I have personally seen what a devastating medical condition can cost.

Self-censorship is the most devastating thing for an artist.

I think the demise of a marriage is like a death, and there is a mourning that goes with it. It's devastating.

I love devastating movies, documentaries and hummingbirds (yes, in that order).

Depression is like the worst disease you can get. It's devastating.

Love thy neighbor - and if he happens to be tall, debonair and devastating, it will be that much easier.

Defeat is most devastating at the moment of victory" Saint Dane

Nothing is more devastating to a community than out-of-control crime.

If you look at [Donald] Trump's attacks on Jeb Bush, they've been pretty devastating.

An AIG failure would have been devastating to the financial system and to the economy.

Another plague upon the land, as devastating as the locusts God loosed on the Egyptians, is 'Political Correctness.'

The swift wind of compromise is a lot more devastating than the sudden jolt of misfortune.

When you are confronted with a level of devastating disease and death, you never lose that sense of unbelievable humility.

Barack Obama's devastating. His policies and his presidency are devastating. But I have this confidence that he's not gonna succeed in total transforming this country into a Western European socialist democracy where the vast majority of the population just lays down and accepts it.

In my own constituency, the benefit cap has had the effect of social cleansing: of people receiving benefit, but the benefit is capped; therefore, they can't meet the rent levels charged and are forced to move. It's devastating for children, devastating for the family and very bad for the community as a whole.

It's many things that she had to deal with, and she got to the point where [my wife] didn't know what to believe anymore and she just didn't care to live her life anymore. I think it was devastating at that particular time, and it's even more devastating today as we grow older.

I get how devastating high taxes are to job creation.

For states that support terror, it is not enough that the consequences be costly-they must be devastating

A devastating commentary on the war in Iraq is that we have been unable to spend money on infrastructure.

I disagree that our border is in devastating condition.

To strip our past of glory is no great loss, but to deny it honor is devastating.

Coming to terms with the fact that my marriage was a failure was devastating and very difficult.

Alzheimer's is a devastating disease that affects many of our loved ones.

Infidelity is horrible - there's nothing worse than that; it's devastating.

The devastating punch we took on September 11th still reverberates throughout American society.

As a 15, 16-year-old girl, someone messaging you on Facebook and telling you you're fat is devastating. It's still devastating when someone says something horrible about me, but I love myself so much more as a person.

Isolation is devastating to the human psyche.

But having said that, what's happening with campaign finance reform and our political culture is devastating.

The coronavirus is having a devastating economic impact on states.

A devastating culmination of the elegant and the funky, a really sensational musician with enormous depth.