Doom Quote by Basil Bunting

“Our doom is, to be sifted by the wind, heaped up, smoothed down like silly sands. We are less permanent than thought.”

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The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does he picture us caught in a tremendous man-made or God-made trap from which there is no escape, but we must also listen to him day in, day out, describe how the trap is inexorably closing. To…

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Fate with impartial hand turns out the doom of high and low; her capacious urn is constantly shaking the names of all mankind.

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Early on a difficult climb, especially a solo climb, you’re hyper-aware of the abyss pulling at your back, constantly feeling its call, its immense hunger. To resist takes tremendous conscious effort, you don’t dare let your guard down for an instant. The void puts you on edge, makes your movements tentative and clumsy. But as the climb continues, you grow…

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Forget the noose. Forget the Iron Maiden. Forget the electric chair or the guillotine. The mind was mankind's most painful torture chamber, the blessed…

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When there's doom and gloom, don't forget there's darkness before dawn.

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For Scotland has a double dose of the poison called heredity; the sense of blood in the aristocrat, the sense of doom in the…

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Politics is about the participation and engagement of the wider citizenry - to miss that point would doom us to irrelevance.

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Social and cultural change, however desirable, should not be effected by the engines of national power. Let us, through persuasion and education, seek to…

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