Doom Quotes
271 quotes by 218 authors
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For most affairs, this eventually becomes the most fundamental of questions, the only one that matters: Do we love each other more than the lives…
— Brady Udall
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All my laurels you have riven away, and my roses; yet in spite of you, there is one crown I bear away with me... One…
— Edmond Rostand
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She wanted an Angel of Music . . . an angel who would make her believe in herself at last. I'd been the Angel of…
— Susan Kay
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Of course, it is likely enough, my friends,' he said slowly, 'likely enough that we are going to our doom: the last march of the…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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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 liberty…
— Tiffanie DeBartolo
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However baby man may brag of his science and skill, and however much, in a flattering future, that science and skill may augment; yet for…
— Herman Melville
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An Overall Feeling of Doom that One Cannot Ever Escape no Matter What One Does
— Daniel Handler
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We rarely get to prepare ourselves in meadows or on graveled walks; we do it on short notice in places without windows, hospital corridors, rooms…
— Thomas Harris
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But there is a fatality, a feeling so irresistible and inevitable that it has the force of doom, which almost invariably compels human beings to…
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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What humans want most of all, is to be right. Even if we're being right about our own doom. If we believe there are monsters…
— David Wong
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Yes?’ he asked, looking at me over the sheet. ‘I’m a writer temporarily down on my inspirations.’ ‘Oh, a writer, eh?’ ‘Yes.’ ‘Are you sure?’…
— Charles Bukowski
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I have been made to learn that the doom and burden of our life is bound forever on man’s shoulders; and when the attempt is…
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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We’re vampires,†he said. “Not fairies.†“Sometimes I’m not so sure about that. You see that study your king hangs out in?†“He’s nearly blind. 
— J R Ward
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The doom lies in yourself, not in your name.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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Life is too short to spend your precious time trying to convince a person who wants to live in gloom and doom otherwise. Give lifting…
— Zig Ziglar
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Perhaps that is our doom, our human curse, to never really know one another.
— Rick Yancey
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Brief and powerless is man's life; on him and all his race the slow, sure doom falls pitiless and dark.
— Bertrand Russell
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By failing to read or listen to poets, society dooms itself to inferior modes of articulation, those of the politician, the salesman, or the charlatan.…
— Joseph Brodsky
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Each soul has its appointed doom. How is it you dare to raise a mortal boy so high - high enough to flout the gods?…
— Janet Morris
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That which once united man Now drives him apart.We are not helpless Creatures crashing onwards irresistibly to doom. There is time for everything and time…
— Alan Bold
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