Top 100 Quotes About Doom
#1. Today's mom watches her every child-rearing step lest she commit some egregious and apocalyptic parenting faux pas that will certainly doom her child to a life spent sleeping under overpasses, or worse, not going to Harvard.
John Rosemond
#2. The widest land
Doom takes to part us, leaves thy heart in mine
With pulses that beat double. What I do
And what I dream include thee, as the wine
Must taste of its own grapes.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
#3. Yet though a man gets many wounds in breast, He dieth not, unless the appointed time, The limit of his life's span, coincide; Nor does the man who by the hearth at home Sits still, escape the doom that Fate decrees.
Aeschylus
#4. This is for you. A mage named Randal told me to give it to the Band if you ever came back. 'It surmounts evil,' he told me, 'keeps doom at bay.'
Janet Morris
#5. I'll be your mess, you be mine
That was the deal that we had signed
I bought a hazmat suit to clean up your waste
Gas masks, gloves, to keep us safe
But now I'm alone in an empty room
Staring down immaculate doom
Messy
Gayle Forman
#6. The field of doom bears death as its harvest.
Aeschylus
#7. Love is a path lined with roses." I say bitterly. "But it leads to a cliff's edge and all who follow it tumble to their doom. You will not find your happiness there.
Jessica Khoury
#8. Backward we traveled to reclaim the day
Before we fell, like Icarus, undone;
All we find are altars in decay
And profane words scrawled black across the sun.
From the poem "Doom of the Exiles", written 16 April 1954
Sylvia Plath
#9. I think that its easy to think of the environment as all doom and gloom and that, 'What can we do, it's too late. And the polar bears are gone, and everything is gone.' But really, just the little steps that we can make as individuals make a big difference.
Orlando Bloom
#10. I've met my doom, and it isn't even breakfast yet.
Ashley Poston
#11. She said she'd been in relationships with way bigger problems than one of us being a transitory manifestation of impending doom. Like this one girl who liked her computer more than she liked her girlfriend, and another one who smoked.
Seanan McGuire
#12. That lack of programmability is probably what ultimately will doom vi. It can't extend its domain.
Bill Joy
#13. I love the thrill of impending, weightless doom ...
Jennifer Niven
#14. Do you remember the Lady of Shalott? The mirror crack'd from side to side: 'The doom has come upon me,' cried the Lady of Shalott. Well, that's what she looked like. People laugh at Tennyson nowadays, but the Lady of Shalott always thrilled me when I was young and it still does.
Agatha Christie
#15. Not every story is true. And sometimes the things that were wicked become the things that save us, and the things that were good doom us to misery and pain.
Kelly Barnhill
#16. Only remember: I am not the ease, but the end.
I am not to blind you, but to find you.
What you think is the sirens singing to lure you to your doom is only the voice of the inevitable, welcoming you after so long a wait. I was made only for you.
Elizabeth Smart
#17. Parental criticism is unhelpful. It creates anger and resentment. Even worse, children who are regularly criticized learn to condemn themselves and others. They learn to doubt their own worth and to belittle the value of others. They learn to suspect people and to expect personal doom.
Haim G. Ginott
#18. They trained me for this. It's their own fault. They helped make their own doom.
Victoria Aveyard
#19. The thegn who deems an unjust doom is to lose his thegnship. It is a principle which can be widely applied
Edward Jenks
#20. Be born anywhere, little embryo novelist, but do not be born under the shadow of a great creed, not under the burden of original sin, not under the doom of Salvation.
Pearl S. Buck
#21. This is the problem with the way you educate your children. You don't want your young ones drawing their own conclusions. You want them to come to the same conclusions that you came to. Thus you doom them to repeat the mistakes to which your own conclusions led you.
Neale Donald Walsch
#22. All Hollywood endings - the bad endings have to be the bad guys to be falling about 50 stories to his death and you have to see his eyeballs as he goes to his doom.
Chris Matthews
#23. Doom 2 is just such a bigger, badder, better version of Doom
John Romero
#24. Worry, fear, doom, and gloom are all an absolute waste of energy ' ~ Ramie
Tim Bauerschmidt
#25. Man is a fire-stealing animal, and we can't help building machines and machine intelligences, even if, from time to time, we use them not only to outsmart ourselves but to bring us right up to the doorstep of Doom.
Richard Dooling
#26. Doom is thinking-man's heavy, something you climb into and not only discover the riffs and depth of the music, but also you also climb into yourself and explore the inner environment.
Mike Scheidt
#27. I'm very lucky. I actually like screenwriting. I rarely feel a sense of doom going to my desk.
Simon Beaufoy
#28. She tried to focus on the element of riddle or at least puzzle contained in the letter and ignore the sense of doom that was sweeping through her like clouds rolling to the shore over open water.
Sara Sheridan
#30. That which once united man Now drives him apart.We are not helpless Creatures crashing onwards irresistibly to doom. There is time for everything and time to choose For everything.We are that time, that choice. Everybody gets what he deserves.
Alan Bold
#31. Although I am not averse to wasting a few hours playing computer games, I have never tried my hand at Doom . Judging by sales figures and testimonials, playing the game has to be an infinitely preferable experience to watching this pathetic excuse for a movie.
James Berardinelli
#32. Find someone hypersocial and crazy and try not to follow them to their doom, but to make friends with their nicer friends.
Whit Stillman
#33. Today our world is mad in its obsession with pleasure, sex, and money. Its ear is too dull to hear the truth. Most men's eyes are blind. They do not want to see. They do not want to hear. They hurry to their doom.
Billy Graham
#34. Talking doom and gloom all day no longer fit who I was as a person.
Daryn Kagan
#35. I was born, so that the whole world could be a spectatorOf my triumph or my doom ...
Mikhail Lermontov
#36. I treat my body like a temple. A temple of doom, but a temple nonetheless.
Jim Gaffigan
#37. I know the danger. I know we may not come back, and in so doing, doom a nation. I would give my life for my nation. But I will not give the life of my sister. I will not, yet again, be parted from my own blood.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
#38. It was about then that the effects of great wealth and a small gene pool started to spell their doom.
Jonathan L. Howard
#39. The pathways of hell are hardly foreign; we shall end up there one day if we tarry too long. From a passageway to a pathway: it is an easy fall, without shock or surprises. Every day we are reacquainted with the sadness of the passageway and step by step we clear the path toward our mournful doom.
Muriel Barbery
#40. My doom is, I love thee still.
Let no man dream but that I love thee still.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
#41. It was all right to hope and noble to strive, but in the end it was doom alone which would count.
Stephen King
#43. I don't want to paint a picture of total gloom and doom.
Fareed Zakaria
#44. Doom. You recognize Doom easily. It's a feeling and a taste, and it's black, and it's very heavy. It comes down over your head, and wraps tentacles around you, and sinks long dirty fingernails into your heart. It has a stink of burning garbage.
Gil Brewer
#45. Because I am the nastiest, stupidest, absurdest and most envious of all the worms on earth, who are not a bit better than I am, but, the devil knows why, are never put to confusion; while I shall always be insulted by every louse, that is my doom!
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#46. These are clearly the end times, and now we understand why the prophets warned us about the Trump of Doom.
Michael R. Burch
#47. the seedy-garish world of back-street London... restless rootless... beautiful, amoral, modern siren of doom in a jungle of dance halls, caffs and pubs.
Mark McShane
#48. If, in all the cities, every house that is past repairing could be pulled down or burned up, how great would be the crash, how heaven-high the conflagration. It would be a veritable crack of Doom and glare of the Judgment.
Albion Fellows Bacon
#49. Don't wait for the right time to do what your heart craves. The right time may never come. In the end, there is nothing more dreadful than the doom of a half-lived life.
Yveta Germano
#50. Then that had passed. It was 1923 and I wrote a book and discovered that my doom, fate, was to keep on writing books: not for any exterior or ulterior purpose: just writing the books for the sake of writing the books;
William Faulkner
#51. Pending catastrophe is not an easy notion to entertain, much less sustain. Americans, moreover, have a low tolerance for doom and gloom. We are the nation of optimism, after all. We elect leaders who promise hope and change. We are the shining city on a hill. But what happens when the lights go out?
Kathleen Parker
#52. In any market, in any country, there are developers who make money. So I say all of this doom and gloom, but there will always be people who make money, because people always want homes.
Sarah Beeny
#53. Alone, he saw the slanting waves roll in,
Each to its impotent annihilation
In a long wash of foam, until the sound
Become for him a warning and a torture,
Like a malign reproof reiterating
In vain its cold and only sound of doom.
Edwin Arlington Robinson
#55. Every step we take is one inch closer to our salvation and one foot closer to our doom.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#56. And so the doubts begin... Our doom draws nearer, and every man sees it. A strange thing, death. Far away, you can laugh at it, but as it comes closer it looks worse and worse. Close enough to touch, and no one laughs.
Joe Abercrombie
#58. If we were to hit the level that Metallica or somebody like that hit, we'd have had a hard time dealing with it. I think it would have been our doom. It's hard for anybody at that level.
Jerry Only
#59. I want to celebrate in the face of despair, dance when all we see on the horizon is doom.
Shauna Niequist
#60. How can we delight in our good fortune when we know that it must end, and that one of us will end it? Every day makes us richer, and brings us one day nearer to our doom.
Peter S. Beagle
#61. I cared nothing; my point of view in that instance, as in all others like it, was, that if the paper chose to send an outsider and an ignoramus to criticise works of art - especially the works of a new and tentative and experimental school - then, on the head of the paper let the just doom fall.
Arthur Machen
#62. If we suffer tamely a lawless attack upon our liberty, we encourage it, and involve others in our doom.
Samuel Adams
#63. At some point last year, her gloom met my doom and she thought it was a good match. i'm not so sure, but at least i get coffee out of it.
David Levithan
#64. The earth was cursed for Adam's sake. Work is our blessing, not our doom. God has a work to do, and so should we.
Ezra Taft Benson
#66. Journalism, spooked by rumors of its own obsolescence, has stopped believing in itself. Groans of doom alternate with panicked happy talk.
Maureen Dowd
#67. Liberty is a principle; its community is its security; exclusiveness is its doom.
Lajos Kossuth
#69. In the '90s it was irrational exuberance. Now it may be irrational doom and gloom.
Robert Reich
#70. Some day we hope to liberate every man on earth from the tendency as old as human history to identify our strength and manhood with the ability to control the lives, limit the chances, and doom the dreams of women and girls.
Bill Clinton
#71. Who thus translated the Chickasaw title meaning "The Man"; which translation Ikkemotubbe, himself a man of wit and imagination as well as a shrewd judge of character, including his own, carried it one step further and anglicised it to "Doom.
William Faulkner
#72. My stories are warnings; they're not predictions. If they were predictions, I wouldn't do them. Because then I'd be part of the doom-ridden psychology. But every time I name a problem, I try to give a solution.
Ray Bradbury
#73. The saving of our world from pending doom will come, not through the complacent adjustment of the conforming majority, but through the creative maladjustment of a nonconforming minority.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#74. Verily,' said Gandalf, now in a loud voice, keen and clear, 'that way lies our hope, where sits our greatest fear. Doom hangs still on a thread. Yet hope there is still, if we can but stand unconquered for a little while.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#75. Looking' his last' upon the scene of his former joys and his later sufferings, and wishing 'she' could see him now, abroad on the wild sea, facing peril and death with a dauntless heart, going to his doom with a grim smile on his lips.
Mark Twain
#76. Compared to how I have raced before and how I have competed, the success that I have had, this does look like doom compared to it.
Ian Thorpe
#77. They are Man's and they cling to me, appealing from their fathers. This boy is Ignorance and this girl is Want. Beware them both, and all of their degree, but most of all beware this boy for on his brow I see that written which is Doom, unless the writing be erased.
Charles Dickens
#78. Fate with impartial hand turns out the doom of high and low; her capacious urn is constantly shaking the names of all mankind.
Horace
#79. Lord Jesu, I ask Thee, give unto me movement in Thy love without measure; desire without limit; longing without order; burning without discretion. Truly the better the love of Thee is, the greedier it is; for neither by reason is it restrained, nor by dread thronged, nor by doom tempted.
Richard Rolle
#80. God forbid you be an ugly girl, 'course too pretty is also your doom, 'cause everyone harbors a secret hatred for the prettiest girl in the room
Ani DiFranco
#81. It is the just doom of laziness and gluttony to be inactive without ease and drowsy without tranquility.
Samuel Johnson
#82. And I found there were myriad definitions of this thing called tragedy that had wormed its way through the history of literature; and the simplest of all was this: that it is the story of a figure who, through some moral flaw or personal failing, falls through force of circumstance to his doom.
Helen Macdonald
#83. Doom that walks always swiftly, because she goes to the shedding of blood
Oscar Wilde
#84. Well the deputy walks on hard nails and the preacher rides a mount,
But nothing really matters much it's doom alone that counts.
Bob Dylan
#85. Janie saw her life like a great tree in leaf with the things suffered, things enjoyed, things done and undone. Dawn and doom was in the branches
Zora Neale Hurston
#86. Prophets of doom warn that sooner or later Homo sapiens will exhaust the raw materials and energy of planet Earth. And what will happen then?
Yuval Noah Harari
#87. The eyes of mortal men, threaten you with doom
They regret to see you, set, but it is time, for the moon
Tupac Shakur
#88. You and I are bound. We will be each other's salvation, or each other's doom.
P.C. Cast
#89. The great moments of life are but moments like the others. Your doom is spoken in a word or two. A single look from the eyes; a mere pressure of the hand, may decide it; or of the lip,s though they cannot speak.
William Makepeace Thackeray
#91. All responsible writers, to some degree, have become involuntary criers of doom, because doom is in the wind
Philip K. Dick
#92. Parental looks rely a lot on brow positioning. Whereas the Dad Look involves the lowering of the brow as a whole, the Mom Look takes advantage of the power of the single, raised brow. Of Doom.
Susan Bischoff
#93. And you, are Ruin, the chosen Carnificem, and WOE is what you're all about, it's your purpose. Doom and Gloom. ~Caliber Creed
Lucian Bane
#95. I think that there is something in the human psyche, that when it approaches a big mark up point it tends to get doom laden.
Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki
#96. I think The Hulk really hit a chord with me, I love the Hulk. But, I never dreamt I'd be playing Doctor Doom.
Simon Templeman
#97. Doom very evenly! Do not doom one doom to the rich; another to the poor! Nor doom one doom to your friend; another to your foe!
Alfred The Great
#99. Some people, no matter how robust their stock portfolios or how healthy their children, are always mentally preparing for doom. They are just born worriers, their brains forever anticipating the dropping of some dreaded other shoe.
Robin Marantz Henig
#100. I kind of hate to be the voice of doom, but I just can't see how prices can't go down. I think people have actually forgotten that property prices can decrease. There's this feeling that they just won't fall, but, of course, that's not true.
Sarah Beeny
