--- title: "3 Damned Quotes By Charles Fort" description: "3 Damned quotes by Charles Fort. Plus more from Charles Fort and more Damned sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b53/charles-fort-11887_heavenly_all-would-be-well-all-would-be-heavenly_402228.jpg" --- > [All would be well. All would be heavenly--If the damned would only stay damned.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-fort/all-would-be-well-all-would-be-heavenly-if-the-damned-would-only-stay/) [Charles Fort](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-fort/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b53/charles-fort-11887_heavenly_all-would-be-well-all-would-be-heavenly_402228.jpg) > [“A procession of the damned: By the damned I mean the excluded. We shall have a procession of data that science has…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-fort/a-procession-of-the-damned-by-the-damned-i-mean-the-excluded-we-shall/) [Charles Fort](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-fort/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/870/charles-fort-11887_analysis_a-procession-of-the-damned-by-the-damned_1376633.jpg) > [A procession of the damned. By the damned, I mean the excluded. We shall have a procession of data that Science has…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-fort/a-procession-of-the-damned-by-the-damned-i-mean-the-excluded-we-shall-2/) [Charles Fort](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-fort/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0f3/charles-fort-11887_data_a-procession-of-the-damned-by-the-damned_1751299.jpg) ## Other authors on Damned ## More by Charles Fort > [Sometimes I am a collector of data, and only a collector, and am likely to be gross and miserly, piling up notes, pleased with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-fort/sometimes-i-am-a-collector-of-data-and-only-a-collector-and-am-likely/) [Charles Fort](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-fort/) > [ \[Wise men\] have tried to understand our state of being, by grasping at its stars, or its arts, or its economics. But, if there… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-fort/wise-men-have-tried-to-understand-our-state-of-being-by-grasping-at/) [Charles Fort](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-fort/) > [The ideal state is meekness, or humility, or the semi-invalid state of the old. Year after year I am becoming nobler and nobler. If…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-fort/the-ideal-state-is-meekness-or-humility-or-the-semi-invalid-state-of/) [Charles Fort](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-fort/) > [Against all the opposition in the world, I make this statement - that once I knew a magician. I was a witness of a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-fort/against-all-the-opposition-in-the-world-i-make-this-statement-that/) [Charles Fort](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-fort/) > [“There is a continuity of all things that make classifications fictions. But all human knowledge depends upon arrangements. Then all books--scientific, theological, philosophical--are only…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-fort/there-is-a-continuity-of-all-things-that-make-classifications/) [Charles Fort](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-fort/) > [The Earth is a farm. We are someone else's property.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-fort/the-earth-is-a-farm-we-are-someone-else-s-property/) [Charles Fort](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-fort/) > [“Is life worth living? Like everybody else, I have many times asked that question, usually deciding negatively, because I am most likely to ask…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-fort/is-life-worth-living-like-everybody-else-i-have-many-times-asked-that/) [Charles Fort](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-fort/) > [All would be well. All would be heavenly--If the damned would only stay damned.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-fort/all-would-be-well-all-would-be-heavenly-if-the-damned-would-only-stay/) [Charles Fort](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-fort/) > [I have taken the stand that nobody can be always wrong, but it does seem to me that I have approximated so highly that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-fort/i-have-taken-the-stand-that-nobody-can-be-always-wrong-but-it-does/) [Charles Fort](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-fort/) > [“I sent letters of enquiry to all persons whose names were given, and received not one reply. There are several ways of explaining. One…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-fort/i-sent-letters-of-enquiry-to-all-persons-whose-names-were-given-and/) [Charles Fort](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-fort/) > [“We cannot define. Nothing has ever been finally figured out, because there is nothing final to figure out”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-fort/we-cannot-define-nothing-has-ever-been-finally-figured-out-because/) [Charles Fort](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-fort/) > [The fate of all explanation is to close one door only to have another fly wide open.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-fort/the-fate-of-all-explanation-is-to-close-one-door-only-to-have-another/) [Charles Fort](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-fort/) > [The history of science is a record of the transformations of contempts amd amusements.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-fort/the-history-of-science-is-a-record-of-the-transformations-of/) [Charles Fort](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-fort/) > [“I am a collector of notes upon subjects that have diversity — such as deviations from concentricity in the lunar crater Copernicus, and a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-fort/i-am-a-collector-of-notes-upon-subjects-that-have-diversity-such-as/) [Charles Fort](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-fort/) > [“It is our expression that the flux between that which isn't and that which won't be, or the state that is commonly and absurdly…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-fort/it-is-our-expression-that-the-flux-between-that-which-isn-t-and-that/) [Charles Fort](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-fort/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/damned/charles-fort/#itemlist", "name": "3 Damned Quotes By Charles Fort", "numberOfItems": 3, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "All would be well. 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