Top 68 Quotes About Doomed Love
#1. When I began to realize how often we quarrelled, how often I picked on her with nervous irritation, I became aware that our love was doomed: love had turned into a love-affair with a beginning and an end.
Graham Greene
#3. In the minds of the principals, the history of the marriage was redrafted to have been always doomed, love was recast as delusion.
Ian McEwan
#4. To love human beauty is to love something whose very existence is doomed. Love should be based on permanence. On solid, secure things ... Love of God. Love of good deeds. Love of country and family. Love of ideas.
Naomi Ragen
#5. 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
#6. Talk about doomed love. He's gay, she's dead, stay tuned.
Aprilynne Pike
#7. People who can't think of anything else but whether the person you love is indented or convex should be doomed not to think of anything else but that, and so miss the other ninety-five percent of life.
Robert Towne
#8. 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
#9. Our relationship had been doomed form the start, because it was based on grief, and unlike love, grief eventually passed.
Ilona Andrews
#10. Call it inevitable, call it the doomed fate of love. Call it karmic, fucked up, the dance of the wolves. Live it, love it, call it life. Call it Led Zeppelin. Yeah, yeah. Really, I don't really, really don't fucking care.
Rebecca Godfrey
#11. A man need not be ashamed of moist eyes when he gazes on the face of some loved one who is far away. It's human. It shows a kindly heart, an impressionable mind!
("The Doomed Man")
Dick Donovan
#12. The only love that feels like love is the doomed kind. (Fun fact.)
Jenny Offill
#13. 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
#14. 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
#15. Romance only comes into existence where love is fatal, frowned upon and doomed by life itself.
Denis De Rougemont
#16. You are the happy one. I am the doomed fool.
Don DeLillo
#18. 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
#19. 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
#20. 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
#21. 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
#22. Humanity seems doomed to do more evil than good. The greatest ideal on earth is human love.
Wladyslaw Szpilman
#23. Is it love? I don't know," he said truthfully. "Sometimes I think I'm just addicted to him. Or that he's cast some kind of horrible curse on me where I'm to follow him for the rest of my life, doomed to fall for his lies over and over again.
Bey Deckard
#25. A love affair based on jealousy is doomed from the start ... It is certanly a sign of love, but it's a sign that it's already dying.
Francoise Sagan
#26. I shudder, I see the love, I'm doomed, my heart melts again - can't stand not to be in love, can't stand not to be melting with real tenderness, childlike need sweetnesses, that's what's wrong with me.
Allen Ginsberg
#27. That love which does not build a foundation on good sense is doomed.
Ian McEwan
#28. Many & most moments go by with us hardly aware of their passage. But love & hate & fear cause time to snag you, to drag you down like a spider's web holding fast to a doomed fly's wings. And when you're caught like that you're aware of every moment & movement & nuance.
Walter Mosley
#29. We cannot live to be together
Forever doomed to love and death,
The latter bringing us together
Claiming from life the final breath!
So we shall love in death forever,
Evicted as we are from life,
As long as living shall be never
Successful in the love-long strife!
Tatyana K. Varenko
#30. Love which did not build a foundation on good sense was doomed.
Jane Austen
#31. Alone, we are doomed, but by the same token, we've learned that people are impossible, even the ones we love most - especially the ones we love most: they're damaged, prickly and set in their ways.
Anne Lamott
#32. A world that does not love, respect and protect its Women is doomed to perish! Because Women are Mother Earth!
Avijeet Das
#33. She rose too, not as if to meet him or to flee from him, but quietly, as though the worst of the task were done and she had only to wait; so quietly that, as he came close, her outstretched hands acted not as a check but as a guide to him.
Edith Wharton
#34. Maybe it is only a quiet, day-to-day loyalty that is worth having; maybe the grand love or the great gesture is always doomed.
Natasha Walter
#35. I love humanity, surprisingly, as I observe 21st century with hawk eyed vision, I realize the more I love humanity the less I love Human as an individual.
Ankita Singhal
#36. The song is "Always Wanting You," a favorite of Dad's, where cynical, heartsick Merle croon about always wanting but never having his love, and about how hard it will be to face tomorrow cuz he knows he'll just be wanting her again. Doomed.
Rachel Cohn
#37. 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. As neither of us gave the other what he most desired, our union was doomed to failure.
Peggy Guggenheim
#38. I love stories about two people who are doing illegal things, who we really enjoy watching despite the fact that we know they are doomed in some way.
Famke Janssen
#39. Do you know why our race is doomed, Pellinore? Because it has fallen in love with the pleasant fiction that we are somehow above the very rules that we have determined govern everything else.
Rick Yancey
#40. I've discreetly dated a lot of people - I once dated a billionaire, mostly because it was fun to say, "I'm dating a billionaire," but we did not have the same taste in music, and it was doomed.
Courtney Love
#41. He offered his love ... she could not bother,
She gives her love to the other! The other!
E.A. Bucchianeri
#42. And why love things you were destined to lose? Why let yourself feel things if the feelings were doomed to die?
Garth Risk Hallberg
#43. Just because some of us make a mistake in love once doesn't mean we're doomed to repeat it.
Jeaniene Frost
#44. We heal up through being loved, and through loving others. We don't heal by forming a secret society of one - by assessing about the only other 'one' we might admit, and being doomed to disappointment.
Jeanette Winterson
#45. In heterosexual love there's no solution. Man and woman are irreconcilable, and it's the doomed attempt to do the impossible, repeated in each new affair, that lends heterosexual love its grandeur.
Marguerite Duras
#46. The chambermaid believed in courtly love. A book's physical self was sacrosanct to her, its form inseparable from its content; her duty as a lover was Platonic adoration, a noble but doomed attempt to conserve forever the state of perfect chastity in which it had left the bookseller.
Anne Fadiman
#47. I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we're all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we'll ever have.
John Green
#48. How we got together, the lies, the betrayals.. we doomed ourselves before we even started." He shook his head. "We love each other so much ... and we don't trust each other at all.
S.C. Stephens
#49. I will love you as the iceberg loves the ship, and the passengers love the lifeboat and the lifeboat loves the teeth of the sperm whale, and the sperm whale loves the flavor of naval uniforms.
Lemony Snicket
#50. My sister and I may have been crafted of the same genetic clay, baked in the same uterine kiln, but we were disparate species, doomed never to love each other except blindly.
Judith Kelman
#51. That was the last cruel irony of Tobias's life: that he doomed the woman he would have died to save.
Cassandra Clare
#52. Looking at them now, thought Jim, you'd never believe they weren't in love with each other, and not with a hopeless, doomed obsession like poor Isabel Meredith. This was what love ought to be like: playful and passionate and teasing, and dangerous, too, with sharp intelligence in it.
Philip Pullman
#53. Oh well, it's over for you. Call the code at 2:03 p.m."
My eyes widened in shock. "That's what they say when someone dies."
"Exactly." He nodded. "Woman have fallen in love with me after staring like that for only thirty seconds and
I think you just took a full minute. You're doomed.
Michele Jaffe
#54. I'm going, she said. I love you but you're
crazy, you're doomed.
Charles Bukowski
#55. Love should always be given, but trust must be earned, and never forget or else be tagged the fool, doomed to repeat history.
L.M. Fields
#56. I love that word. Forever. I love that forever doesn't exist, but we have a word for it anyway, and use it all the time. It's beautiful and doomed.
Viv Albertine
#57. I've seen the people who talk about their love lives in print invariably have doomed relationships with the person they're talking about.
John Cusack
#58. I always thought I would die before the end. I trudged on knowing I was doomed. But my friends have breathed love into me, breathed my faith back into my bones. They've made me want to live.
Pierce Brown
#59. Love- however doomed, had the capacity to attach bouys to the soul.
Ariana Franklin
#60. I remember staying to look at it for a long time, as one would linger within reach of a consoling whisper. The sky was pearly grey. It was one of those overcast days so rare in the tropics, in which memories crowd upon one, memories of other shores, of other faces.
Joseph Conrad
#61. The anger in itself was not the problem. The lack of anger management and the inappropriate expression of this anger is what doomed your relationship . . . sucked the love right out of it!
David W. Earle
#62. If she had not been a gypsy, and if he had not been a priest
Victor Hugo
#63. Plato claimed that we were all joined to someone else once, we were humans with four arms and four legs, and a head of two faces, but we were so powerful we threatened to topple the Gods. So they split us from our sole mates down the middle, and doomed us to live forever without our counterparts
Sarah Crossan
#64. I realized I would rather have a single night with you, even if it meant I was doomed to be bound to you, aching for you forever than not know such love.
Karen Marie Moning
#65. Would anyone else ever find him attractive? Would he be able to trust them? Would he ever make love again, or even want to? And why love things you were destined to lose? Why let yourself feel things if the feelings were doomed to die? (And
Garth Risk Hallberg
#66. Many & most moments go by with us hardly aware of their passage. But love & hate & fear cause time to snag you, to drag you down like a spider's web holding fast to a doomed fly's wings. And when you're caught like that you're aware of every moment & movement & nuance.
Walter Mosley
#67. That's why teenage dating is so dumb, because it's doomed to fail. You'd think people would have learned that by now, but I guess they haven't. They go right on falling in love and thinking it's going to survive high school.
Michael Thomas Ford
#68. I read a lot of F. Scott Fitzgerald. I love 'Tender is the Night,' and its atmosphere of doomed romance. He was one of the greatest prose stylists, with a wonderfully clear but lyrical quality.
David Nicholls
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