Top 100 Doomed Quotes
#1. I wanted to be a soccer player, and I became the best of the best, the number one, better than Maradona, better than Pele, and even better than Messi - but only at night, nighttime, during my dreams. When I wake up, I realized that I have wooden legs and that I'm doomed to be a writer.
Eduardo Galeano
#2. To this day, I can never shake the connection between this boy, Peeta Mellark, and the bread that gave me hope, and the dandelion that reminded me that I was not doomed.
Suzanne Collins
#3. Sometimes she wondered if she was doomed to repeat the mistakes of the past, since she'd trained herself not to look back at it.
Cinda Williams Chima
#4. They desecrate Riora's sacred temple! She will be enraged."
"Oh, gods, look at the marble. We are all beyond doomed."
"Somebody put a plant in front of it!
Kresley Cole
#5. 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 you are never to be confounded in time or eternity.
Dwight L. Moody
#6. If I am identified with my relationship, with my house, or with my money, I am doomed to suffer.
Guy Finley
#7. Not all animal brides are doomed. Not all men are greedy or violent or possessive.
Delia Sherman
#8. Los Angeles signed a pact with the devil and lost its soul a long time ago, you know? It flourishes, but it's doomed.
Tiffanie DeBartolo
#9. We were doomed from the start. A lost cause. A losing battle. And yet, in that narrow instant, I didn't give a single fuck.
Julie Johnson
#10. 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 goddesses, and marrying mere mortals.
Washington Irving
#11. She was limp and pathetic and woozy and I loved her, I realised, even more because I knew how completely it was doomed.
Olivia Sudjic
#12. You are doomed to make choices. This is life's greatest paradox.
Wayne Dyer
#13. Humanity is defined by its struggles, not doomed by them. It is in the way we endure those struggles that we transcend our lower nature and enter a higher realm.
D.J. Niko
#14. ThunderClan is doomed!" "There will be a cat who burns like fire!" "Trust no one, not even your Clanmates. Too many hearts are fickle." "Beware the striped face and snapping teeth!
Erin Hunter
#15. They were two ruined souls doomed to wander their minds, if not the earth, trying to remember from whence they came.
Tania James
#16. Romance only comes into existence where love is fatal, frowned upon and doomed by life itself.
Denis De Rougemont
#17. The kind of world I'm endlessly going on about is pretty well doomed, but nevertheless I think there are recesses of it worth celebrating.
Iain Sinclair
#18. You are the happy one. I am the doomed fool.
Don DeLillo
#19. If we can make the correct diagnosis, the healing can begin. If we can't, both our personal health and our economy are doomed.
Andrew Weil
#20. Alluding and attacking, summoning a courage, embodying a gallantry of defiance that hurt to see, it was so noble and so doomed.
Guy Gavriel Kay
#21. Now we can understand Schopenhauer when he said that mankind was apparently doomed to vacillate eternally between the two extremes of distress and boredom.
Viktor E. Frankl
#22. 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 the entire fabric is doomed.
Emma Goldman
#23. Rotten bosses don't get better. Any strategy that assumes they can is doomed.
Scott Adams
#24. Always I seem doomed to protect those I most despise, Entreri whispered
R.A. Salvatore
#25. Perhaps my life is nothing but an image of this kind; perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring, doomed to try and learn what I simply should recognize, learning a mere fraction of what I have forgotten.
Andre Breton
#26. Doomed enterprises divide lives forever into the then and now
Cormac McCarthy
#27. FURIES:
Over the beast doomed to the fire
this is the chant, scatter of wits,
frenzy and fear, hurting the heart,
song of the Furies
binding brain and blighting blood
in its stringless melody.
Aeschylus
#28. I tell myself that after four children my belly is already so stretched and flabby that I have to do origami to get my pants buttoned. One more pregnancy and I'd be doomed to elastic waists for the rest of my life.
Ayelet Waldman
#29. We are doomed to choose and every choice may entail irreparable loss.
Isaiah Berlin
#30. God, he was so beautiful. It was the tragic kind of beauty too, the kind you knew was doomed from the start. A face that launched a thousand ships and dug a million graves.
Andrea Speed
#32. It's my theory that if you hear enough applause and laughter at a young enough age, you're doomed
John Lithgow
#33. Look what happened the last time a Republican president tried to fix a doomed national economy. Remember Herbert Hoover?
Hunter S. Thompson
#34. Do you believe people can change their fate, or do you think our lives are mapped out before us? I mean, do you think we're each doomed to die a certain death?
Joanne Owen
#35. 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 seeds. It is endless.
Bette Davis
#36. An organism at war with itself is doomed.
Carl Sagan
#38. We were the masters of nature, the masters of the world. We had transcended everything - death, fatigue, our natural needs. We were stronger than cold and hunger, stronger than the guns and the desire to die, doomed and rootless, nothing but numbers, we were the only men on earth. At
Elie Wiesel
#39. We may be doomed, but why not enjoy ourselves? It will lessen the victory of our adversaries.
Brandon Mull
#41. Women's words are as light as the doomed leaves whirling in autumn, Easily swept by the wind, easily drowned by the wave.
Ovid
#42. Unless there comes to the Nation a greater emancipation than Lincoln's Proclamation effected, it is doomed, it is bound to go down.
Francis James Grimke
#43. Take me with you. I want a doomed love. I want streets at night, wind and rain, no one wondering where I am.
Michael Cunningham
#44. Some say, 'Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it.' I say, 'Those who ignore history are in for a big surprise.'
Stephen Colbert
#45. Three things see no end- A flower blighted ere it bloomed, A message that was wasted, And a journey that was doomed.
Mercedes Lackey
#46. Basically, if reverse engineering is banned, then a lot of the open source community is doomed to fail.
Jon Johansen
#47. With every day, and from both sides of my intelligence, the moral and the intellectual, I thus drew steadily nearer to the truth, by whose partial discovery I have been doomed to such a dreadful shipwreck: that man is not truly one, but truly two.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#48. Who, doomed to go in company with Pain And Fear and Bloodshed,-miserable train!- Turns his necessity to glorious gain.
William Wordsworth
#49. There was a certain graceful ease and freedom about all he said and did, that gave a sense of repose and expansion to the mind, after so much constraint and formality as I had been doomed to suffer.
Anne Bronte
#50. Men were doomed to repeat the sins of not only their fathers, but all their ancient forbears on back to Cain. That was the true mark upon man, scripted in his very blood.
Charles Dodd White
#51. The tree of life is already doomed from the moment it is planted.
Tan Twan Eng
#52. You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you do not try.
Brigitte Trinkle
#53. I do honestly think that if women were running the world there would be more investment in peace, because basically as women we do not want to see our children killed. Maybe I am completely idealistic, but until we see women in equal positions of power in the world, I just think that we are doomed.
Meryl Streep
#54. Oh, father!" he said, "how the fear and oppression of ages are gone like a cloud swallowed up of space. Oh, father! are not all human ills doomed thus to vanish at last in the eternal fire of the love-burning God? - An
George MacDonald
#55. I'm the sort of man who's doomed to be a failure and I'll go to my grave without ever knowing whether I was real gold or just tinsel!
Gustave Flaubert
#56. Prehistory of mankind is way too horrible to be remembered.
But if we choose to ignore it, then we'll be doomed to repeat it.
Toba Beta
#57. In the late 19th century, the theory that the Aborigines were an inferior race that was doomed to die out became accepted as fact.
Richard Flanagan
#58. I'm doomed romantically. I try to find a formula for everything in life, and that includes romance, but my methods haven't proven successful because there is no formula in romance.
Jessie Cave
#59. Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it.
Edmund Burke
#60. In individual industries where female labour pays an important role, any movement advocating better wages, shorter working hours, etc., would not be doomed from the start because of the attitude of those women workers who are not organized.
Clara Zetkin
#61. Seeing clearly means that you're smart enough to know when a project is doomed, or brave enough to persevere when your colleagues are fleeing for the hills. Abandoning your worldview in order to try on someone else's is the first step in being able to see things as they are.
Seth Godin
#62. This wedding is your parents' fault. They named her Kiley. She was doomed from birth to marry a hunky, fratty premed major.
Rainbow Rowell
#63. Marcus Aurelius appoints personal character and conscience the ultimate refuge of happiness-seekers: the only place where dreams of happiness, doomed to die childless and intestate anywhere else, are not bound to be frustrated.
Zygmunt Bauman
#64. Surely being a Professional Beauty - let alone an ageing one - is one of the most insecure and doomed careers imaginable.
Julie Burchill
#65. Monotheism is in its turn doomed to subtract one more God and become atheism
Ibn Warraq
#66. The clarification of equilibrium through plastic art is of great importance for humanity. It reveals that although human life in time is doomed to disequilibrium, notwithstanding this, it is based on equilibrium. It demonstrates that equilibrium can become more and more living in us.
Piet Mondrian
#67. You have lost faith in anything great; you are doomed, then, doomed to perish unless that faith returns, like a comet from unknown skies.
Friedrich Holderlin
#68. Essential truths gained by loss in translation. The essence of beauty not perfection, but the doomed aspiration.
Brian McGreevy
#70. Mass transportation is doomed to failure in North America because a person's car is the only place where he can be alone and think.
Marshall McLuhan
#71. Doomed to total failure in a deaf world of ignorance and indifference, he inexorably kept on cutting out his diamonds, his dazzling diamonds, of whose mines he had a perfect knowledge.
Anton Webern
#72. A vision from a universe where the Equal Rights Amendment
with its redefinition of personhood
is rejected by the house of deputies: A universe where to die is to become property and to be created outwith a gift of parental DNA is to be doomed to slavery.
Charles Stross
#73. I knew an actor's career goes up and down and back up again. Your standing in this business can't be your whole identity; otherwise, you're doomed.
Lisa Kudrow
#74. 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 documentation. We are doomed to be forever hailing someone who has just gone around the corner and out of earshot.
Simon Schama
#75. I hope that I never become a vogue. A vogue is damned and doomed forever.
Charles Bukowski
#76. Being born at the tag-end of the baby boom, I was destined (or doomed, depending on how you look at it) to fall in love with sci-fi. It was one of my first literary loves, as a matter of fact.
Rick Yancey
#77. Diets that don't limit carbs, yet require smaller portions and more exercise, are doomed to fail because they keep you hungry and make you store fat.
Grant Petersen
#78. If I let her in I'm doomed. It's like inviting a vampire into your house. Once you've invite them in, that's it, you're good as dead!
Janet Evanovich
#79. You can't possibly predict what will last or not. But once you attempt to write for the ages, you're doomed.
Carlisle Floyd
#80. In a very real sense, we are shipwrecked passengers on a doomed planet. Yet, even in a shipwreck, human decencies and human values do not necessarily vanish, and we must make the most of them. We shall go down, but let it be in a manner to which we may look forward as worthy of our dignity.
Norbert Wiener
#81. The inspiration and authority of the Bible is the bedrock upon which our faith is built. Without it, we are doomed to uncertainty, doubt, and a hopeless groping in the darkness of human speculation.
Sam Storms
#82. The man who to untimely death is doomed Vainly would hedge him in from the assault of harm; He bears the seed of ruin in himself.
Matthew Arnold
#83. Mongols were "a race of people on the path to extinction, incapable of progress, doomed to be swallowed up by their neighbors.
Willard Sunderland
#84. I realized my sorrow, the regret of a restless, doomed spirit, rang in my voice. For the first time I wondered if my fate was to helplessly watch violence until I became as mad as the men who committed the murders.
Christina Dodd
#85. I'm doomed. Guitar players just do it for me.
Kim Holden
#86. It is said that those who fail to remember history are doomed to repeat it. That's not quite correct. We all forget history. The key is whether we have a way to go back to rediscover what we forget. More directly, the key is whether an objective past can keep us honest.
Lawrence Lessig
#87. 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 lover that only disappointment can follow.
Roger Ebert
#88. Bus factor (noun): the number of people that need to get hit by a bus before your project is completely doomed.
Brian W. Fitzpatrick
#89. Ideas are nothing. They're irrelevant. If you think your idea is so important, you're doomed. The reality is if you don't like one idea, I've got 299 more. If I tell you my idea, and you can execute better against that idea than I can - great; I get to play a terrific game.
Warren Spector
#90. Your own space, man, it's so important. That's why we were doomed because we didn't have any. It is like monkeys in a zoo. They die. You know, everything needs to be left alone.
George Harrison
#91. It is important for investors to understand what they do and don't know. Learn to recognize that you cannot possibly know what is going to happen in the future, and any investment plan that is dependent on accurately forecasting where markets will be next year is doomed to failure.
Barry Ritholtz
#92. Doomed to practice it day after day, even to the extent of dipping his nib in orange juice to make the words invisible, he has fallen in love with secrecy.
Paul West
#93. I am doomed or fortunate to stick to what I do best.
Jill Sobule
#94. Watching it all, I had a panic attack.
Holy shit! Most of the Thirld World sees America through the actions of backpackers. They're our diplomats in places like this. Our grungy kissingers. These folks must think we're all drawstring pant-wearing, Hacky-Sacking, white Rasta freaks. We're doomed.
Franz Wisner
#95. By the essence of their nature, which was frail, all human beings were probably doomed to be seasick.
Eudora Welty
#96. The saddest thing in the world was that human beings, for all their ardent striving and desire, could never achieve physical, emotional, or intellectual perfection. The species was doomed to imperfection; it thrashed forever in despair or denial of that fact.
Dean Koontz
#97. It is much more sensible to be an optimist instead of a pessimist, for if one is doomed to disappointment, why experience it in advance?
Elizabeth Peters
#98. If one is to be doomed, one must be beautiful, or the drama is only a comedy.
Joanne Greenberg
#99. I suppose I felt doomed to be an artist early on because of the way I drew all over the books that I needed for school, from ancient history to math. I was more interested in drawing in the margins than actually doing the work.
Nancy Spero
#100. Violetta's voice trembles. "Raffaele is saying that all of us, all Elites, are in danger."
That we are doomed to be forever young.
Marie Lu
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