Top 100 Quotes About Doom
#1. They realize their ultimate doom, but they are fatalists, incapable of resistance or escape. Not one of the present generation has been out of sight of these walls.
Robert E. Howard
#2. The future is uncertain but the end is always near.
Jim Morrison
#4. People think I'm all gloom and doom all the time. I'm not. I also have bad days where I'm pessimistic.
Jarod Kintz
#5. Pandora's Box could not be unopened, no one could return to Eden.
Selena Kitt
#7. Each soul has its appointed doom. How is it you dare to raise a mortal boy so high - high enough to flout the gods? Bring godhead where a man may reach out and take it? growls Enlil, and lightning splits a clear blue sky.
Janet Morris
#8. Forecasting Armageddon has become trendy of late, with a great deal of attention being given to an interpretation of the Mayan Calendar suggesting that Mother Earth is destined for doom in December of 2012.
Seth Shostak
#9. I am the only being whose doom no tongue would ask, no eye would mourn.
Charlotte Bronte
#10. At the day of Doom men shall be judged according to their fruits. It will not be said then, did you believe? But, were you doers or talkers only?
John Bunyan
#11. Cooking saved my life! Sure, there were some miserable moments, but that was sort of the point, to find something challenging and consuming enough to take a place in the center of my life into which was creeping a horrible feeling of stasis and the doom of mediocrity.
Julie Powell
#12. Europe is standing on the brink of the greatest tragedy in the history of the human race: a new world war, that may involve the doom of our entire civilisation.
Vidkun Quisling
#13. The city guardsmen were like the keres, doom-bringers of merciless vengeance.
Janet Morris
#14. Some kids spent their allowance going to see 'Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom'; I spent mine on a great-looking lamp I'd found at the flea market and a ceramic bowl from a neighborhood garage sale.
Nate Berkus
#15. Alas, regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come, nor care beyond today.
Thomas Gray
#16. As the hobbits are going up Mount Doom, the eye of Mordor is being drawn somewhere else. It's being drawn to Iraq. You know what? I want to keep it on Iraq. I don't want the eye to come back to the United States.
Rick Santorum
#17. Just are the ways of heaven; from Heaven proceed
The woes of man: Heaven doom'd the Greeks to bleed.
Homer
#18. And here you see me working out, as cheerfully and thankfully as I may, my doom of sharing in the glass a constant change of customers, and of lying down and rising up with the skeleton allotted to me for my mortal companion.
Charles Dickens
#19. Murray sounds like a blindfolded man riding a unicycle on the rim of the pit of doom, the men actually facing the danger are all so taciturn that you might as well try interviewing the cars themselves.
Clive James
#20. In the original computer game of Doom, you not only have to kill things. You have to pulverise them.
Rosamund Pike
#21. Oh righteous doom, that they who make Pleasure their only end, Ordering the whole life for its sake, Miss that whereto they tend. While they who bid stern duty lead, Content to follow, they, Of duty only taking heed, Find pleasure by the way.
Eugene Ionesco
#22. An Overall Feeling of Doom that One Cannot Ever Escape no Matter What One Does
Lemony Snicket
#23. Prophets of doom have always taken risks in terms of ridicule and humiliation. If you stand on a street corner holding up a sign that reads 'The End Is Near,' passersby will laugh and heckle. People will say you're like Chicken Little, running around telling people the sky is falling.
Robert Kiyosaki
#24. Beginning with doom in the bulb, the spring unravels ...
Dylan Thomas
#25. People do support themselves as artists and writers, so there's no need to be all doom and gloom about it. You just have to push forward. You have to follow your vision and hope for the best. You have to write for love.
Cheryl Strayed
#26. Be sure that God Ne'er dooms to waste the strength he deigns impart.
Robert Browning
#27. There is something to be said about being the object of one's desire, that you have all the control, but being craved by a blood thirsty vampire is the doom of any soul.
Mayandree Michel
#28. Nothing can doom man but the belief in doom, for this prevents the movement of return.
Martin Buber
#29. First rule of a pirate's mate, keep yer eye on yer destination, not yer doom.
Lisa Kessler
#30. I distinctly remember the vivacious optimism that inundated the United States when the Soviet Union imploded in the early 1990s. This was not glee generated by the doom of an implacable enemy, but thrill germinated by the real possibilities that the future held for freedom.
Eskinder Nega
#31. Three men, together riding, Can win new worlds at their will; Resolute, neer dividing, Lead, and be victors still. Three can laugh and doom a king, Three can make the planets sing.
Mary Carolyn Davies
#32. Our outworn economic system dooms millions to frustration.
Olaf Stapledon
#34. We love, while knowing that someday our love might be lost forever. We laugh as we stride along, even while recognising that doom lies at the end of the road. We give, while comprehending that in the end 'twill all be taken away. we are nothing less then heroes.
Cecilia Dart-Thornton
#35. She was gracious and yet fading, like an old statue in a garden, that symbolizes the weather through which it has endured, and is not so much the work of man as the work of wind and rain and the herd of the seasons, and though formed in men's image is a figure of doom.
Djuna Barnes
#36. Lightning strikes the earth and thunder heralds the doom but the earth bears it all in silence, teaching us that life may be harsh to us but we shouldn't be so to life.
Tista Ray
#37. Seek for the Sword that was broken In Imladris it dwells; There shall be counsels taken Stronger than Morgul-spells. There shall be shown a token That Doom is near at hand, For Isuldur's Bane shall waken, And the halfling forth shall stand.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#38. Doom comes about because of neglecting to evaluate one's self and because of just following one's whims.
Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
#39. Blood of my heart, protection is thine.
Life of my life, taking yours, taking mine
Body of my body, marrow and mind
Soul of my soul, to our spirit bind
Blood of my heart, my tides, my moon
Blood of my heart, my salvation, my doom
Kami Garcia
#40. Ignorance and weakness is not an impediment to survival. Arrogance is.
Cixin Liu
#41. So, it's the ever popular Firstborn Child of Doom prophecy,huh, ice-boy? How very cliche. Why can't it ever be the third nephew twice removed who's fated to destroy the worls?
Iron Prophecy: The Iron Fey~ Puck
Julie Kagawa
#42. Prosthetics can fix physical disabilities. But no prosthetic can fix an amputated spirit. So, don't let the society devoid you from your own spirit. Be brave and upright, and delve into even the depth of doom to achieve your goal.
Abhijit Naskar
#43. When all hope was gone, they heeded the counsels of despair. Had they continued to strive, defying their doom, some unforseen wonder might have occurred. And if it did not, still their glory would have surpassed their failure.
Stephen R. Donaldson
#44. It's nice to go into your doom. It's so liberating.
Sheila Heti
#45. Servile labour disappeared because it could not stand the competition of free labour; its un-profitability sealed its doom in the market economy.
Ludwig Von Mises
#46. Two arguing geeks were stoppable. Three arguing geeks created an infinite argument vortex of doom that sucked time down like a black hole.
Delphine Dryden
#47. Often, it was only the bold, fearless, risky action that had any hope of circumventing impending doom, as if Fate was amused by the colorfully unexpected, and while she was laughing, one might slip changes past the pernicious bitch.
Karen Marie Moning
#48. Trends in circulation and advertising - the rise of the Internet, which has made the daily newspaper look slow and unresponsive; the advent of Craigslist, which is wiping out classified advertising-have created a palpable sense of doom.
Eric Alterman
#49. Our doom is, to be sifted by the wind, heaped up, smoothed down like silly sands. We are less permanent than thought.
Basil Bunting
#50. How shall I speak of Doom, and ours in special, But as of something altogether common?
Donald Justice
#51. Scientific research is a bottomless money pit. You can approximate Doing Science to standing on the Crack of Doom throwing banknotes down it by the double-handful, in the hope that if you choke the volcano with enough paper it will cough up the One Ring.
Charles Stross
#52. Aura of doom?" Keefe asked, a smirk curling his lips. "Sounds like my kind of party.
Shannon Messenger
#53. Go your way. Forget Prometheus, And all the woe that he is doom'd to bear; By his own choice this vile estate preferring To ignorant bliss and unfelt slavery.
Hartley Coleridge
#54. Let me but find it in my heart to say, When vagrant wishes beckon me astray, "This is my work; my blessing, not my doom; Of all who live, I am the one by whom This work can best be done in the right way."
Henry Van Dyke
#55. It's a good thing Doom 3 is selling very well ...
John Carmack
#57. We are always immeasurably bigger than the little person we've too often doomed ourselves to be.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#58. Each and everyone of us moves towards faiths we cannot possibly know. Each of us struggles against the pain of the world even as we are doomed to join it.
Charles Bock
#59. Every day that you harp on this gloom and doom is another day you miss the blessed life you have here, right now, this instant." "Sandy,
Jamie Kornegay
#60. Impending doom, it was a familiar sweater, we all wore it and as scratchy as it felt against our skin, we kept it on.
Holly Hood
#61. Why not simply surrender to one's doom, since one was so clearly, so spectacularly, doomed?
Paul Russell
#62. An equal doom clipp'd Time's blest wings of peace.
Petrarch
#63. It's the doom of our species that psychopaths always want to be in charge.
Linda Nagata
#65. Soot and sorrow: the Night Market's invocation of desperate seriousness, of doom and disaster.
Nick Harkaway
#67. Every crisis has both its dangers and its opportunities. Each can spell either salvation or doom.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#68. Swan renders the gathering amusingly, depicting the vile android Brainiac, scourge of the galaxy, sitting on Clark's ottoman and chatting away with Luthor as if he's at some kind of Stitch-n-Bitch-of-Doom.
Glen Weldon
#69. From private flood. / Drama of each season / plots doom from above, / yet all allergic reason / moves to our minor love
Sylvia Plath
#70. Preaching doom and gloom has been beneficial to the political class. They use it to gain more power and control.
Walter E. Williams
#71. No one else can make you happy, and putting that expectation on the other will doom both of you. You don't look at someone and say, "You can make my life better." You look at someone and say, " I can make your life better." Be a blessing, not a burden.
Penelope Douglas
#72. Nought is there in wealth That serves as bulwark 'gainst the subtle stealth Of Destiny and Doom.
Aeschylus
#73. We inevitably doom our children to failure and frustration when we try to set their goals for them.
Jess Lair
#74. He knew that all the hazards and perils were now drawing together to a point: the next day would be a day of doom, the day of final effort or disaster, the last gasp.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#75. The gods! long since they hold us in contempt,
Scornful of gifts thus offered by the lost!
Why should we fawn and flinch away from doom?
Aeschylus
#76. Reiki can either bring you prosperity or doom - use it well.
Nikita Dudani
#77. The light sprang up again, and there on the brink of the chasm, at the very Crack of Doom, stood Frodo, black against the glare, tense; erect, but still as if he had been turned to stone.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#78. And god help you if you are an ugly girl course too pretty is also your doom cause everyone harbors a secret hatred for the prettiest girl in the room and god help you if you are a pheonix and you dare to rise up from the ash a thousand eyes will smolder with jealousy while you are just flying back
Ani DiFranco
#79. Whate'er my doom;
It cannot be unhappy: God hath given me
The boon of resignation.
Woodrow Wilson
#80. There's going to be a horrible war. It's all going to happen. The Disc is too old to take it this time. Everything's been worn too thin. Doom, darkness and destruction bear down on us. The Apocralypse is nigh.
Terry Pratchett
#81. If others in the same Glass better see
'Tis for Themselves they look, but not for me:
For my Salvation must its Doom receive
Not from what others, but what I believe.
John Dryden
#82. A game like 'Myst' may be a gorgeous slide show that preserves its beauty at the expense of speed. A game like 'Doom' sacrifices almost everything for action. But the eye soon adjusts: the degree of detail more than adequately conveys infinite claustrophobic labyrinths populated by howling monsters.
Marc Laidlaw
#83. But he also didn't care to hear that doom and gloom message of 'nothing this broken can ever be fixed.' He
Lucian Bane
#84. My neck and shoulders are killing me. Hard to focus on writing about murder, doom, shagging, our hopeless future & other comedy etc etc.
Warren Ellis
#85. Hugh put one foot up on the parapet and regarded his cigarette that seemed bent, like humanity, on consuming itself as quickly as possible.
Malcolm Lowry
#86. You wake from dreams of doom and
for a moment
you know: beyond all the noise and the gestures, the only real thing, love's calm unwavering flame in the half-light of an early dawn.
Dag Hammarskjold
#87. Her country crumbling to dust, and with broken men all around, Queen Shuri went off to her doom. I could have gone with her. But someone had to fight and someone had to live. And after we parted, I wondered- still wonder- how a man walks away and leaves his only sister to die.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
#88. I think what you're groping for is that people need more than to feel scolded, more than to be made to feel stupid and guilty. They need more than a vision of doom. They need a vision of the world and of themselves that inspires them.
Daniel Quinn
#89. His view of the world featured swift disasters set against a background of lurking doom, my cooking did nothing to contradict it.
Margaret Atwood
#90. I like some shooters, and I respect games like Doom, but I don't think it's right for me.
Sid Meier
#91. Don't let the doom criers and the cynics persuade you that the best is past.
Ronald Reagan
#92. The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates.
Margaret Mead
#93. You doom yourselves, Susannah. You seem positively bent on it, and the root is always the same: your faith fails you, and you replace it with rational thought. But there is no love in thought, nothing that lasts in deduction, only death in rationalism.
Stephen King
#94. Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom:
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved
William Shakespeare
#95. Some people don't really know enough to make a pronouncement of doom on a human being.
Norman Cousins
#96. Great hope has no real footing unless one is willing to face into the doom that may also be on the way.
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Norman Mailer
#97. But his doom 54: Reserv'd him to more wrath; for now the thought 55: Both of lost happiness and lasting pain 56: Torments him; round he throws his baleful eyes 57: That witness'd huge affliction and dismay 58: Mixt with obdurate pride and stedfast hate:
John Milton
#98. The doom of a nation can be averted only by a storm of flowing passion, but only those who are passionate themselves can arouse passion in others.
Adolf Hitler
#99. There is nothing rarer than a man who can be trusted never to throw away happiness, however eagerly he sometimes grasps it. In history we are as frequently interested in our own doom.
Rebecca West
#100. We must convince each generation that they are transient passengers on this planet earth. It does not belong to them. They are not free to doom generations yet unborn. They are not at liberty to erase humanity's past nor dim its future.
Bernard Lown
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