Doomed Quotes
455 quotes by 373 authors
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That's the hell of sand castles. They are always doomed. That's part of their beauty — their impermanence.
— Pamela Moore
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Fish seem to be rather conservative around this bay, one seldom catches enough to form the fundamental basis for a lie. Dante left out one…
— Thomas A. Edison
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Why would you want to keep the bluebird houses mounted in a place that you now know is unsafe for them? Bluebirds are not ornaments…
— Kathy Griffin
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If we cannot understand the depth of feeling in the Muslim world toward Iran, Hezbollah, Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood, and Islam as a political force,…
— Hooman Majd
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A man who fears ridicule will never go far, for good or ill: he remains on this side of this talents, and even if he…
— Emile M. Cioran
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Great, big, serious novels always get awards. If it's a battle between a great, big, serious novel and a funny novel, the funny novel is…
— Neil Gaiman
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Unfenced by law, the unmarried lover can quit a bad relationship at any time. But you - the legally married person who wants to escape…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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Puritanism, in whatever expression, is a poisonous germ. On the surface everything may look strong and vigorous; yet the poison works its way persistently, until…
— Emma Goldman
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It's possible that you have been told a time or 10 that you don't appreciate how tough your elders had it. It's true that, if…
— Gail Collins
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I've seen the people who talk about their love lives in print invariably have doomed relationships with the person they're talking about.
— John Cusack
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I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has…
— Bette Davis
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You are doomed to make choices. This is life's greatest paradox.
— Wayne Dyer
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There's something depressing about a young couple helplessly in love. Their state is so perfect, it must be doomed. They project such qualities on their…
— Roger Ebert
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Why the fairy tale of Willie Mays making a brilliant World Series catch, and then dashing off to play stickball in the street with his…
— Ernie Harwell
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Students rarely disappoint teachers who assure them in advance that they are doomed to failure.
— Sidney Hook
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Once you begin to fall off the track and believe you breathe different air to everyone else, you're doomed; you're finished.
— Anthony Hopkins
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A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority…
— Aldous Huxley
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We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.
— William James
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The earth is rocky and full of roots; it's clay, and it seems doomed and polluted, but you dig little holes for the ugly shriveled…
— Anne Lamott
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All that is not perfect down to the smallest detail is doomed to perish.
— Gustav Mahler
Who Wrote These Doomed Quotes
373 authors contributed a total of 455 Doomed Quotes, led by these top contributors: