destroyed by love

There's another view of love. Anybody who's ever been in love knows it's easy to be destroyed by love, it's such a powerful emotion.

And so I start to write about love – to describe it in terms of warfare, in terms of being devastating and destructive, like a tidal wave.

-sting

http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2003/09_september/25/ws_sting.shtml