Doomed Quotes
455 quotes by 384 authors
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I don't even have voice mail or answering machines anymore. I hate the phone, and I don't want to call anybody back. If I go…
— Drew Barrymore
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Perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring, doomed to try and learn what I should simply recognize,…
— Andre Breton
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If you ask three people what it means to be Christian, you will get three different answers. Some feel being baptized is sufficient. Others feel…
— Dan Brown
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Surely being a Professional Beauty - let alone an ageing one - is one of the most insecure and doomed careers imaginable.
— Julie Burchill
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Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.
— William Ellery Channing
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Without authority there is no liberty. Freedom is doomed to destruction at every turn, unless there is a recognized right to freedom. And if there…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The conflict that exists today is no more than an old-style struggle for power, once again presented to mankind in semireligious trappings. The difference is…
— Albert Einstein
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They are a doomed race. Wars, smallpox, gross immorality, a change from old ways to new ways their fate is the common fate of the…
— George Amos Dorsey
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If men do not now succeed in abolishing war, civilization and mankind are doomed.
— Ludwig von Mises
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Every memorable act in the history of the world is a triumph of enthusiasm. Nothing great was ever achieved without it because it gives any…
— Og Mandino
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For if it is not lawful to take the law into our own hands and slay even a guilty person, whose death no public sentence…
— Saint Augustine
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Men are always doomed to be duped, not so much by the arts of the other as by their own imagination. They are always wooing…
— Washington Irving
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The deep waters of time will flow over us: only a few men of genius will lift a head above the surface, and though doomed…
— Seneca the Younger
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The two highest achievements of the human mind are the twin concepts of "loyalty" and "duty". Whenever these twin concepts fall into disrepute, get out…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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Observation is so wide awake, and facts are being so rapidly added to the sum of human experience, that it appears as if the theorizer…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Feminism is doomed to failure because it is based on an attempt to repeal and restructure human nature.
— Phyllis Schlafly
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When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion - when you see that in order to produce, you need to…
— Ayn Rand
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Historians are left forever chasing shadows, painfully aware of their inability ever to reconstruct a dead world in its completeness however thorough or revealing their…
— Simon Schama
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If the resurrection of Jesus cannot be believed except by assenting to the fantastic descriptions included in the Gospels, then Christianity is doomed. For that…
— John Shelby Spong
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Believing as I do that man in the distant future will be a far more perfect creature than he now is, it is an intolerable…
— Charles Darwin
Who Wrote These Doomed Quotes
384 authors contributed a total of 455 Doomed Quotes, led by these top contributors: