Best Devastating Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“I always wanted to be friends with my older female teachers. I would stay in during recess and try to talk to them and they'd be like, 'I need to go grade papers now Cole. Go outside!' It was devastating at the time but now it makes sense.”

“It's devastating to watch someone you love lose their humanhood right before their eyes.”

“As great as '95 was, that's how devastating '96 was.”

“There's never been such a devastating incident as what had happened in America with George Floyd passing away. That's one of the biggest things that I've seen in the world, but things have happened in the past and after a month or two it's just business as normal.”

“You kind of make a film shouting into the void: 'I feel so crazy. Does anyone else feel like this?' And when someone says yes, that's devastating, but it's also really affirming. We have each other.”

“The whole thing with the E.U. and Britain voting to leave has been devastating.”

“Feeling like you were a joke to your partner of nine years... is devastating, but I want to show other women that you don't have to let that hold you back.”

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

“It's devastating when that happens, when someone just ups and leaves for no reason, but love does sometimes go wrong.”

“The tendency among Democrats, especially after a devastating loss, is to come up with either a new individual to lead us, a new strategy, a new slogan.”

“When you're at the highest point of your career at the highest level in your sport, any moment that you have these setbacks and injuries is devastating. You have to start back from zero, and you never know if you're going to get back to where you once were.”

“In 'The Blood Doctor,' I wrote about the history of haemophilia and the devastating effects of the disease at a time when there was no remedy.”

“I had to steel myself against this psychic devastation - to see your father on the street. It's hard enough to pick up somebody you don't know from the streets, and then to actually have other people pick your father up - it was psychically devastating.”

“My parents split when I was 13. For a youngster, it's quite devastating. One minute you're all happy families, then everything changes.”

“My experience as a pastor is lots of people have really toxic, dangerous, psychologically devastating images of God in their head, images of a God who's not good.”

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

“I learned early on about the real meaning of equity and inclusion, and that when those guiding principles are not met, they can have devastating effects on individuals, families, and communities.”

“I've always been haunted by the devastating voice and beautiful songs of Tim Hardin. I can't imagine anyone hearing him and not feeling the same.”

“If you have a good riff with a vocal as well, then it becomes a devastating song. That's why people love riff-rock: it's the ultimate air guitar music.”

“If black lives mattered, I believe that policing and immigration enforcement would not be the devastating force that it is in our communities.”

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

“I would say that when you do something out of the goodness of your heart, and you don't know what the repercussions will be, you have to live with that. And it can be devastating. Because the intention was there.”

“Having to manage fatigue is something I and many people with MS have to deal with, and heat is no friend to my MS, either; it can be devastating.”

“We know that for children, hunger is especially devastating.”

“I look upon The Animals, they were a great band initially, we left our mark, but thing was it was a band that couldn't live up to its name so I soldiered on. On one level, it was devastating for a while. On another level, maybe I should thank them for helping me make my own way in my own career.”

“There are people who take rumors and embellish them in a way that can be devastating. And this pollution has to be eradicated by people in our business as best we can.”

“Global overcapacity in steel production can no longer be ignored. Foreign governments' intervention in steel markets has had a devastating impact on the U.S. industry.”

“We decided to go ahead and thaw my eggs that I had retrieved at the mansion, and none of them survived the thaw. That was pretty devastating for me because all this time I though I had an amazing insurance policy, and it didn't work out.”

“It was set to be my first WrestleMania, which is obviously a lifetime goal. To have that taken away from me right on the approach - we were something like three weeks out - was devastating. It certainly changed me as a person, that process.”

“Hearing that I had a 3 percent chance of ever having kids was one of the more devastating moments in my life.”

“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.”

“In the music business, to survive for so long, you have to be able to cut off from your emotions sometimes. And being a father, you're faced with that situation. I know that my father was, with me. I understand why he had to be distant, because to rip yourself away, time after time, is almost more devastating.”

“It's vital that we be good stewards of our waterways - including protecting them from potentially devastating disasters that can't be undone.”

“Most people imagine that resolving particular problems will make them happy. If only one had more money, or love, or success, then life would feel manageable. It can be devastating to realize the falseness of such tempered optimism.”

“The devastating scale and frequency of my disappointment was proof of how much I still expected and wanted from the world, of what high hopes I still had for it.”

“You know, we've got to this place, where you go to a movie for one particular surgical fix. So, it's like, I want the pulse-pounding action, or the insane falling-off-my-seat comedy, or the devastating, heart-breaking drama.”

“When a lot of people wake up in the morning and put on their underwear, the first thing they feel that day is terrible about themselves. When you see that your body is not what other people want, it can be really devastating. I have so many friends that I grew up with who have had serious eating disorders.”

“I'm a human being so of course hearing about any family member being disappointed with you is devastating, but what can you do?”

“Your children live or die without you. No matter what we do, no matter how we agonize or obsess, we cannot choose for our children whether they live or die. It's a devastating realization, but liberating.”

“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.”

“The coronavirus is having a devastating economic impact on states.”

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

“If you are not moved by the character, no amount of CGI will give you a performance that is emotionally engaging or devastating - what a live-action performance does.”

“Yeah, 'Never Turn Your Back On Mother Earth.' I almost hate to admit what it was originally intended to be, but it's been taken on as being an early example of a song that is championing saving the environment. The song was actually written to be, 'Watch out for mother nature; it can be very devastating.'”

“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.”

“Pictures can be devastating. Who allowed John Kerry to get himself photographed windsurfing in a flowered swimsuit? Anyone in the real world in that operation?”

“Maybe if you're Kanye West, or Lil' Wayne or Issa Rae, having songs, scripts and art leaked won't really put you out, but if you're a struggling Black artist trying to get ahead, the inability to control and protect your work can be devastating.”

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

“Hugh Grant has that magic in real life, so when he's saying these lines, 'It's always been you,' it's just devastating.”

“Having to re-recruit, rehire, and retrain, and wait for a new employee to get up to speed is devastating in terms of cost.”

“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.”

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

“The whole thing with so many people empathising with 'The Office' has made me aware of how people aren't doing jobs they love, aren't living a life they love. Which I find devastating.”

“The devastating repercussions of hate-filled language manifest in very real ways for today's LGBTQ youth.”

“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.”

“I remember I had a psychologist that I worked with in Phoenix tell me one time that the loss of a job and the loss of one's wealth is more devastating to most than losing a loved one or getting divorced. And that really hit me.”

“I started wearing wigs when I was younger and had a thyroid disease that made my hair fall out. It was devastating. I thought, 'I could either have an issue with this, or I could go to the store and buy a wig.' And then I fell in love with wearing them, and I stuck with it even after my hair came back.”

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

“For me, music is therapeutic, so the songs that came to me the easiest came from the most devastating moments of my life.”

“Nature is the purest thing we can touch and observe. It can be the most beautiful and also the most devastating.”

“Shawn Porter is a terrific fighter and he's a great friend of mine. He's a devastating boxer-puncher like myself.”

“I keep my skin - especially on my face and neck - out of the sun. My brother died of melanoma eight years ago, and I've got SPF on all the time, 24-7. It makes you realize, the sun is a wonderful thing, but it can be a very devastating thing. So sunscreen is key, and a lot of laughter, too.”

“I love Richard Yates, his work, and the novel, Revolutionary Road. It's a devastating novel.”

“The kidnapped person is so tantalizingly close, kept alive by a devastating hope. Kidnapping or hostage-taking is perhaps the most disturbing form of terror because it turns this hope into a liability that can paralyze.”

“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.”

“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.”

“The more we shelter children from every disappointment, the more devastating future disappointments will be.”

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

“Malaria has long been a devastating and life-threatening global epidemic disease in human history.”

“The great question, is there anything at all which is worth fighting such a war about, with the devastating loss it will bring? I believe yes, there are some freedoms which to sacrifice would be EVEN worse.”

“In college, a loss is pretty devastating. That feeling kind of goes away in an 82-game season. You hate to lose, but you also have a lot more games to make up for it.”

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

“In the West, we feel the devastating effects of one misguided, half-baked government program after another.”

“We used to live in Patiala in the early '90s. I was hardly six or seven, can't remember the exact age. There was a devastating flood: at least four feet water was inside the house. For good 14-15 days, we survived without proper food. Probably this was the incident that triggered our willpower.”

“I am not into guys who powder-puff punch and run round the ring for 12 rounds. I'm into guys that want to shock the world with devastating power.”

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

“My late wife - she died of cancer. We tried everything we could do to save her. I wish that I could have done more and that I could have been with her at the moment she passed away. I couldn't be in that room because I knew it would be so devastating that I wouldn't be able to take care of the kids after.”

“I try not to kid myself. You know, I don't mind romancing someone else, but to fool yourself is pretty devastating and dangerous.”

“Coming to terms with the fact that my marriage was a failure was devastating and very difficult. I blamed myself for a lot of things. It took me a very long time to get over it.”

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

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