Quote by Colum McCann

“Why not simply surrender to one’s doom, since one was so clearly, so spectacularly, doomed?”

— Paul Russell

“The Lord of the Ringwraiths had met his doom.”

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“I once had been in the middle of a mass chaos and terrible riots. There, I witnessed how men were truly such as beasts…

— Toba Beta

“Here was the heart of dread. It was not fearsome. It was fetid, noxious, hopeless. A deep and exhausting misery, a crevasse so bottomless…

— Laura Tillman

“they were in that bulging-eyed, unreachable state human beings morph into right before they kill.”

— Jeffrey Gettleman

“They were savages, yet they were ghosts. The two most terrible and dreaded foes of civilised experience seemed combined at once in them.”

— Grant Allen

“Like Atlas, I have broad shoulders. I can carry a grudge to the crack of doom.”

— Jeff Mann

“What the hammer? What the Chains? In what furnace was thy brain? Where the anvil? What dread grasp? Dare its deadly terrors clasp?”

— William Blake

“Surely it is the sight of your enemy slain, the humiliation of his tribe and the lamentation of his women.”

— Terry Pratchett

“Saved for a far more glamorous doom, she was.”

— Barbara Newhall Follett

“They were silent, humiliated by this return of the defeated, furious at their own silence, but the more it was prolonged the less capable…

— Albert Camus

“That was the man's real trouble, not the savage and uncanny civilizations he encountered--he kept forgetting what he had.”

— Colson Whitehead