Doomed Quotes
455 quotes by 384 authors
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Trust in yourself and you are doomed to disappointment; trust in money and you may have it taken from you, but trust in God, and…
— Dwight L. Moody
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He [the writer] must, teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid; and, teaching himself that, forget it forever, leaving no…
— William Faulkner
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He who sees age on the outside of things is doomed to underestimate the vitality of raisins.
— Philip K. Jason
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Beware of injustice, for oppression will be darkness on the Day of Resurrection; and beware of stinginess because it doomed those who were before you.…
— Muhammad
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To part is the lot of all mankind. The world is a scene of constant leave-taking, and the hands that grasp in cordial greeting today,…
— R. M. Ballantyne
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An established company which, in an age demanding innovation, is not able to innovation, is doomed to decline and extinction.
— Peter Drucker
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Henceforth space by itself, and time by itself, are doomed to fade away into mere shadows, and only a kind of union of the two…
— Hermann Minkowski
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It may well be that an analysis of figures would reveal a law - the duration of a marriage is inversely proportional to the cost…
— Michael Foley
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Peace was the one thing that Max (Ernst) needed in order to paint, and love was the one thing I needed in order to live.…
— Peggy Guggenheim
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In keeping with my family's affection for doomed product lines and hexed formats, we purchased a Betamax. The year before, we'd bought a TRS-80 instead…
— Colson Whitehead
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The Revolutionist is a doomed man. He has no private interests, no affairs, sentiments, ties, property nor even a name of his own. His entire…
— Sergey Nechayev
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If our sex life were determined by our first youthful experiments, most of the world would be doomed to celibacy. In no area of human…
— P.D. James
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Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.
— Ezra Pound
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Then in October, Indian Summer, the air turned so soft, the sunlight so fragile, and each day's loveliness so poignantly doomed that even self-ignorance and…
— David James Duncan
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Like the brief doomed flare of exploding suns that registers dimly on blind men's eyes, the beginning of the horror passed almost unnoticed; in the…
— William Peter Blatty
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The existing order is breaking down at a very rapid rate, and the main uncertainty is whether mankind can exert a positive role in shaping…
— Richard A. Falk
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Consider as sin any minute of life spent on something other than saving souls for eternity from this world doomed to destruction.
— Richard Wurmbrand
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At first I hoped that such a technically unsound project would collapse but I soon realized it was doomed to success. Almost anything in software…
— Tony Hoare
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Capitalism can no more be 'persuaded' to limit growth than a human being can be 'persuaded' to stop breathing. Attempts to 'green' capitalism, to make…
— Murray Bookchin
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Even if we are all doomed to live under the state, it doesn't follow that there is, or even can be, such a thing as…
— Joseph Sobran
Who Wrote These Doomed Quotes
384 authors contributed a total of 455 Doomed Quotes, led by these top contributors: