Let me be, he said. Despair is the health of the damned.

“If war is the health of the state, despair is the health of religion. Until African workers and peasants find belief systems that provides…

— Anonymous

“Did hope help us to survive, or not? Too many families clung to it all through the war, thus falling into the enemy's trap.…

— Elie Wiesel

Hope is a terrible thing, she said. Is it? Yes, it keep you living in another place, a place which doesn't exist. For some…

— Susan Minot

Those who think of freedom in this country as one long, broad path leading ever onward and upward are dead damned wrong.

— Molly Ivins

What rage for fame attends both great and small! Better be damned than mentioned not at all.

— John Wolcot

“With thousands of roads before us that lead nowhere, going in circles. There really are only two roads we will either travel, one going…

— Anthony Liccione

“Jonathan Edwards, the dear old soul, who, if his doctrine is true, is now in heaven rubbing his holy hands with glee, as he…

— Robert G. Ingersoll

You have told me, O God, to believe in hell. But you have forbidden me to think...of any man as damned

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Dead star shine Light up the sky I'm all out of breath My walls are closing in Days go by Give me a sign…

— ProudLesbian

The human race consists of the damned and the ought-to-be damned.

— Mark Twain

Life is a paradox, you're damned if you do and damned if you don't

— Nancy Cartwright

Let them impeach and be damned.

— Andrew Johnson

People are no damned good.

— William Steig

“The future be damned. Because right here, right now, I almost lost you. I won’t waste another moment.”

— Renea Mason

Sir, my friend John Baynes used to say that the man who published a book without an index ought to be damned ten miles…

— Francis Douce