Doom Quotes
271 quotes by 220 authors
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Some dangers are so spectacular and so much beyond normal experience that the mind refuses to accept them as real, and watches the approach of…
— Arthur C. Clarke
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So the Dark did a simple thing. They showed the maker of the sword his own uncertainty and fear. Fear of having done the wrong…
— Susan Cooper
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Haggard, I would not be you for all the world," he declared. "You have let your doom in by the front door, although it will…
— Peter S. Beagle
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There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all. This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties…
— Alan Paton
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Seek for the Sword that was broken In Imladris it dwells; There shall be counsels taken Stronger than Morgul-spells. There shall be shown a token…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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Only a catastrophe gets our attention. We want them, we depend on them. As long as they happen somewhere else. This is where California comes…
— Don DeLillo
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They lived in a great city, a metropolis of many narratives that converged briefly and then separated for ever, discovering their different dooms in that…
— Salman Rushdie
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Now, it's a fact well known to those who know it well that prophets of doom only attain popularity when they get the drinks in…
— Robert Rankin
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Well Vin says that there's something behind all this, right? Some evil force of doom or whatever? Well, if I were said force of doom,…
— Brandon Sanderson
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Mmm....she's doomed! You're doomed!! They're all doomed! Notice I didn't specify what kind of doom, so no matter what happens, I predicted it. How very…
— Christopher Paolini
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Fire, ice, asteroids and pole shifts are bogeymen with which we distract ourselves from the real threat of our time. In an age when everyone…
— Dean Koontz
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We love, while knowing that someday our love might be lost forever. We laugh as we stride along, even while recognising that doom lies at…
— Cecilia Dart-Thornton
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You and I are bound. We will be each other’s salvation, or each other’s doom.
— P. C. Cast
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I would have things as they were in all the days of my life . . . and in the days of my longfathers before…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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Mene mene tekel upsharin,' Jace said with a faint smile. 'You don't recognize it? It's from the Bible, vampire. The old one. That's your book,…
— Cassandra Clare
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Supernatural is a dangerous and difficult word in any of its senses, looser or stricter. But to fairies it can hardly be applied, unless super…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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[All the ancient wisdom] tells us that work is necessary to us, as much a part of our condition as mortality; that good work is…
— Wendell Berry
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Blood of my heart, protection is thine. Life of my life, taking yours, taking mine Body of my body, marrow and mind Soul of my…
— Kami Garcia
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After a pause, he asked, 'What do you think of Nasuada's plans?' 'Mmm...she's doomed! You're doomed! They're all doomed!'She cackled, doubling over, then straightened abruptly.…
— Christopher Paolini
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Janie saw her life like a great tree in leaf with the things suffered, things enjoyed, things done and undone. Dawn and doom was in…
— Zora Neale Hurston
Who Wrote These Doom Quotes
220 authors contributed a total of 271 Doom Quotes, led by these top contributors: