Doom Quotes
271 quotes by 221 authors
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Not all is doom and gloom. We are beginning to understand the natural world and are gaining a reverence for life - all life.
— Roger Tory Peterson
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There's a common criticism of evolutionary psychology that it's fatalistic and it dooms us to eternal strife, 'Why even try to work toward peace if…
— Steven Pinker
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Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil... prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no…
— Terry Pratchett
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I can't ever seem to shake the feeling that when things are really good it essentially means that things are going to go really bad.…
— Florence Welch
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I don't want to paint a picture of total gloom and doom.
— Fareed Zakaria
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As long as the firmament of the You is spread over me, the tempests of causality cower at my heels, and whirl of doom congeals.
— Martin Buber
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You wake from dreams of doom and--for a moment--you know: beyond all the noise and the gestures, the only real thing, love's calm unwavering flame…
— Dag Hammarskjold
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I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that…
— Edgar Allan Poe
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California deserves whatever it gets. Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom.
— Don DeLillo
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Christmas crept into Pine Cove like a creeping Christmas thing: dragging garland, ribbon, and sleigh bells, oozing eggnog, reeking of pine, and threatening festive doom…
— Christopher Moore
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For long the two enemies looked at one another, Hook shuddering slightly, and Peter with the strange smile upon his face. "So, Pan," said Hook…
— James M. Barrie
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They are Man's and they cling to me, appealing from their fathers. This boy is Ignorance and this girl is Want. Beware them both, and…
— Charles Dickens
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Ignore that nightmare in the bathroom. Just another ugly refugee from the Love Generation, some doom-struck gimp who couldn't handle the pressure. My attorney has…
— Hunter S. Thompson
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I shared a vagrant optimism that some of us were making real progress, that we had taken an honest road, and that the best of…
— Hunter S. Thompson
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Some people—and I am one of them—hate happy ends. We feel cheated. Harm is the norm. Doom should not jam. The avalanche stopping in its…
— Vladimir Nabokov
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People think that talking is a sign of thinking. It isn't, for the most part' on the contrary, it's a mechanical dodge of the body…
— Aleister Crowley
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I'm not an abstractionist. I'm not interested in the relationship of color or form or anything else. I'm interested only in expressing basic human emotions:…
— Mark Rothko
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The saving of our world from pending doom will come, not through the complacent adjustment of the conforming majority, but through the creative maladjustment of…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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and god help you if you are an ugly girl course too pretty is also your doom cause everyone harbors a secret hatred for the…
— Ani DiFranco
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Great hope has no real footing unless one is willing to face into the doom that may also be on the way. p.207
— Norman Mailer
Who Wrote These Doom Quotes
221 authors contributed a total of 271 Doom Quotes, led by these top contributors: