The Damned Quotes

#1. But shall we be happy, to say that we live in the dusk rather than in the full night? Shall we rejoice that we shall only suffer, while your offspring will be the ones to know the torments of the damned? Shall this be why we do not act?

Robin Hobb

#2. Goes with the whole King of the Badasses. Kind of hard to lead an army of the damned if I'm the King of Nice
-Stryker

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#3. The things he made me feel had opened a floodgate, and the damned thing wouldn't close.

R.K. Lilley

#4. Every human being must have a point at which he stands against the culture, where he says, this is me and the damned world can go to hell.

Rollo May

#5. Envy is the bond between the hopeful and the damned

Roger Waters

#6. Styxx was damned and happiness never came to the damned.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#7. Forget the damned motor car and built cities for lovers and friends .

Lewis Mumford

#8. I guess you don't get to watch much TV in Irkalla."
He propped his head on one scaly bicep and turned to look at me. "Nah. We stayed busy torturing the souls of the damned and playing hide the hot poker. You know, the usual.

Jaye Wells

#9. I am a collection of the obsolete, a relic of the damned, of the lost and strayed. I am the waylaid pieces of history which sank out of sight in all of our pasts. Such an accumulation of riffraff has never before been imagined.

Frank Herbert

#10. And wrinkles, the damned democrats, won't flatter.

Lord Byron

#11. I willingly believe that the damned are, in one sense, successful, rebels to the end; that the doors of hell are locked on the inside.

C.S. Lewis

#12. Put me in the last fifteen minutes of a picture and I don't care what happened before. I don't even care if I was IN the rest of the damned thing - I'll take it in those fifteen minutes.

Barbara Stanwyck

#13. I grouped my fellow employees into three categories: the plebes, the damned, and the demons.

H.D. Smith

#14. 'No one lives in Ameeron by choice.'A veritable City of the Damned.'As the poet might remark, aye.' Rackhir offered Elric a sardonic wink. 'But I sometimes think all cities are that.'

Michael Moorcock

#15. We're not the damned, folks, we're the categorically fucked.
-Urian

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#16. Between the 'death bridge' and our little chat with the Queen of the Damned, I've decided I should carry a gun at all times; whether it's to defend myself or to put myself out of my own misery," Carmen rambled on nervously. "It's a win-win situation, really.

Kristen Day

#17. According to your belief [Christian clergy], my kind of man - secular, prideful, agnostic and all the rest of it - is among the damned. I'm on my own. You've got your God.

C. Wright Mills

#18. These captive men are the hidden price for a hiden lie: the righteous must be able to locate the damned.

James Baldwin

#19. I'm not climbing that bedamned tree to get you!" William insisted. Christian snorted. "As if you could." William dropped his sword and climbed the damned tree. A

Eli Easton

#20. One, don't wait for inspiration, just start the damned thing. Two, once you begin, keep on until the end. How do you know how the story should begin until you find out where it's going?

Roger Ebert

#21. Laughter's all the damned thing's fit for.

Henrik Ibsen

#22. Even the damned in hell have the community of their suffering.

Cormac McCarthy

#23. It's all very dramatic and everything, but so what? I didn't know the guy. People I don't know die all the damned time.

John Green

#24. Samantha sighed. "Then I'll get out of the damned car, figure out which wolf in this damnable forest is you, and beat you until you change back. If that doesn't work, so help me god, I'll collar your mangy ass and sell you on eBay.

R.J. Blain

#25. On the other hand, this couldn't be heaven, on several counts. For one, he didn't deserve it. For another, it didn't look it. And for a third, he doubted that the rewards of the blessed included a broken nose, any more than those of the damned.

Diana Gabaldon

#26. He knew...there was no redemption for the damned.

Alan Kinross

#27. I tell you, one more insult and I'll take his curling tongs and ram them so far up his arse he'll be able to curl the damned thing from the inside.

David Gemmell

#28. There goes the girl with the wings," they say. "The damned dreamer with her eyes shut to the world."
"There goes the misguided soul with her heart buried in the ground."
They taunt. They lie. They lie. THEY LIE.
I don't pretend to understand life. THEY LIE.

Nadege Richards

#29. The Blessed will see their friends and relations among the damned as often as they like but without the least of compassion.

Gerhard

#30. I would almost plead for a pinprick of salvation, to pierce the burden, the damned skin of words wrapped around me.

David Grossman

#31. Evie wanted to cry. From fear. From exhaustion, yes. But mostly from the cruel uselessness, the damned stupid arbitrariness of it all.

Libba Bray

#32. I felt the reckless abandon of one who knows she stands already among the damned. "Why not, then, another sin?

Geraldine Brooks

#33. This is all too important." Aenea smiled. "It's all too important. That's the damned problem, isn't it?" She turned her face back to the stars.

Dan Simmons

#34. My mind and fingers have worked like the damned. Homer, the Bible, Plato, Locke, Lamartine, Chateaubriand, Beethoven, Bach, Hummel, Mozart, Weber are all around me. I study them. I devour them with fury.

Franz Liszt

#35. I have nothing but contempt for you idiotic chosen ones who have the heart to rejoice when there are the damned in Hell and the poor on earth; as for me, I am on the side of men and I will not leave it.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#36. And that was all the part of it - the way you were obliged to live. You stifled a groan, you lied about your love, you deceived your legal wife, and all in the name of honour. That was the damned paradox of it - in order to behave well, you have to behave badly.

Julian Barnes

#37. Ella squeezed, wringing a groan from his throat that echoed the torments of the damned. Usually, though, the damned didn't lean into the torment in a silent entreaty for more. Or so she assumed. She didn't think hell was likely to be kinky.

Christine Warren

#38. Yeah, I was at the Masquerade of the Damned.

Richelle Mead

#39. She drove like one of the damned on holiday.

Thomas Pynchon

#40. You know as well as I do, damn you. Like it or not I seem to have grown a heart. I have absolutely no use for the damned thing, but there it sits, demanding Elinor. I can't live without her.

Anne Stuart

#41. The damned Were has me in knots.

S.J. Harper

#42. Christians risk becoming utterly irrelevant in their own culture if they continue to seperate people into "We the Saved" and "They the Damned". Again, I ask, do we need Jesus to protect us from God? Is that what Christianity as we've known is about? Are we saved from God by God?

Carlton D. Pearson

#43. [Camus] The meaning if my works: so many men are deprived of mercy. How to live without mercy? One must try and do what Christianity never did: to take care of the damned.

Olivier Todd

#44. Every time you meet a situation you think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the tortures of the damned, once you have met it and lived through it, you find that forever after you are freer than you were before.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#45. Beneath the vast diamond sky, I felt both all important and utterly significant, the goddess and the damned in equal measure.

Sarah Ockler

#46. But you know we're always going to have to rely on the goodwill of those of you who are straight for our survival. And that's the damned truth.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#47. I've never seen a world
So festering with damnation. I have left
Rings of beer on every alehouse table
From the salt sea-coast across half a dozen counties,
But each time I thought I was on the way
To a faintly festive hiccup
The sight of the damned world sobered me up again.

Christopher Fry

#48. The damned are in the abyss of Hell, as within a woeful city, where they suffer unspeakable torments, in all their senses and members, because as they have employed all their senses and their members in sinning, so shall they suffer in each of them the punishment due to sin.

Saint Francis De Sales

#49. If a ship's coming in from a port known to have plague of some kind, the damned Hollanders make the sailors swim ashore naked.

Diana Gabaldon

#50. Her heart the damned thing had begun to race and she only hoped that the rapid inflation and deflation of her chest wasn't visible beneath her fitted bodice.

Anna Godbersen

#51. The damned bitch has questions to answer. So she better not be dead. She can save that for when we've done.

Shehanne Moore

#52. That the saints may enjoy their beatitude and the grace of God more abundantly they are permitted to see the punishment of the damned in hell.

Thomas Aquinas

#53. My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected and the despised.

Jesse Jackson

#54. The world hadn't come to an end, just an end as man knew it. But there had to be a balance for the chaos. There had to be asylum from the damned.

Tera Shanley

#55. The bodies of the damned shall be crowded together in hell, like grapes in a wine-press, which press one another till they burst; every distinct sense and organ shall be assailed with its own appropriate and most exquisite sufferings.

Jeremy Taylor

#56. When I looked at my hands and wrists, marred by the marks of small burns from cook pots and flying embers, every red weal or white pucker brings to my mind's eye that eternal fire, and the writhing masses of the damned, among whom I must expect to spend eternity.

Geraldine Brooks

#57. So no, I did not rinse out the damned pickle jar." He flopped on the other bed. "And since I'll be going to hell for breaking into a church and stealing holy water, I'll be sure to mention your name when I get there." He paused. "You're probably on Satan's wish-list anyway.

Suzanne Johnson

#58. I arose and spoke substantially as follows: ... I love the government and the constitution of the United States, but I do not love the damned rascals who administer the government.

Brigham Young

#59. The view of the misery of the damned will double the ardour of the love and gratitude of the saints of heaven.

Jonathan Edwards

#60. A copy of the universe is not what is required of art; one of the damned things is ample.

Rebecca West

#61. The play's over, the house lights are up, the audience is gone, but I'm still on the damned stage.

Gregory Miller

#62. For what can the damned really have to say to the damned?

Anne Rice

#63. Then, stop worrying so much what the rest of us think; just get on the damned donkey and ride it.

Susanna Kearsley

#64. It often occurs to me that we love most what makes us miserable. In my opinion the damned are damned because they enjoy being damned.

Patrick Kavanagh

#65. The elevator turned out to be slower than the damned train at Disney World. And it played "The Girl from Ipanema" in Muzak. I looked at Paris and saw that he was mouthing the lyrics. That was it. I'd have to plan an intervention for him once we got home.

Leslie Langtry

#66. Anyone can cook a trout. The real art is in hooking the damned thing.

John Grisham

#67. I tell you the groans of the damned in hell are the deep bass of the universal anthem of praise that shall ascend to the throne of my God for ever and ever.

Charles Spurgeon

#68. The uneasy ghost of Marx must suffer the torments of the damned at the truth glaring from the pages of history that one does not abolish property by transferring it to the state.

Louis O. Kelso

#69. People like Hart didn't understand. They lived by daylight rules. Rules that said should and could when Leigh wanted nothing but the damned and bloodied artistry she created when she did things people said she shouldn't, couldn't.

Cole McCade

#70. And, after all, isn't that what life is all about, the ability to go around back and come up inside other people's heads to look out at the damned fool miracle and say: oh, so that's how you see it!? Well, now, I must remember that.

Ray Bradbury

#71. There, in a livid light, the demons tormented the souls of the damned. The souls preserved the appearance of the bodies which had held them, and even wore some rags of clothing. These souls seemed peaceful in the midst of their torments.

Anatole France

#72. 'I hate discussions of feminism that end up with who does the dishes,' she said. So do I. But at the end, there are always the damned dishes.

Marilyn French

#73. I felt really lucky that 'Hairstyles Of The Damned' and 'The Boy Detective Fails' were both bestsellers, and I thought that donating the money from 'Demons' was a good way to respond to that. My favorite artists are the ones that are willing to experiment, even if it means a smaller audience.

Joe Meno

#74. Religion is a barbarous obsidian knife poised over our chests put it in a cabinet and admire it as a work of art, but don't ever wield the damned thing ever again.

PZ Myers

#75. I'm not human, Ms. Deveraux. In case you haven't noticed, I'm one of the damned. (Valerius)
Baby, open your eyes and look around. We're all damned in one way or another. But damned is a far cry from dead. And you live like you're dead. (Tabitha)
I'm that, too. (Valerius)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#76. Slang is the suitcase of the damned, my dear. CHECK IT.

Heather Cocks

#77. I have good news and bad news The good news is that the jeep is still where we left it, and I got the damned thing working again."
"What's the bad news?"
"Something took my fuzzy dice.

Julie Kagawa

#78. Keep at it! The one talent that's indispensable to a writer is persistence. You must write the book, else there is no book. It will not finish itself. Do not try to commit art. Just tell the damned story.

Tom Clancy

#79. Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned. May not one lost soul be permitted to abstain?

George Bernard Shaw

#80. Coldtown was dangerous. Tana knew. A glamorous cage, a prison for the damned and anyone who wanted to party with them.

Holly Black

#81. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure. The very cave you are afraid to enter turns out to be the source of what you are looking for.
The damned thing in the cave that was so dreaded has become the center.

Joseph Campbell

#82. I do not over-intellectualize the production process. I try to keep it simple: Tell the damned story.

Tom Clancy

#83. The blessed in the kingdom of heaven will see the punishments of the damned, in order that their bliss be more delightful for them.

Thomas Aquinas

#84. Isn't Heaven reward enough, without needing to see the damned punished?

Michel Faber

#85. All would be well. All would be heavenly
If the damned would only stay damned.

Charles Fort

#86. He said that even the damned in hell have the community of their suffering and he thought that he'd guessed out likewise for the living a nominal grief like a grange from which disaster and ruin are proportioned by laws of equity too subtle for divining.

Cormac McCarthy

#87. For what secrets, what truths had those monstrous creatures of night to give us? What, of necessity, must be their terrible limits, if indeed we were to find them at all? What can the damned really say to the damned?

Anne Rice

#88. I think the damned souls in hell must spend half their time wondering what it was that they really meant to do.

Elizabeth Marie Pope

#89. Truly, a life in constant pain is the life of the damned.

Christopher Pike

#90. Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you especially have to be hurt like hell before you can write seriously. But when you get the damned hurt, use it-don't cheat with it.

Ernest Hemingway,

#91. As the saints will rejoice in all goods, so will the damned grieve for all goods.

Thomas Aquinas

#92. The damned could be saved, he said, anytime. But they refused to give up their sins. Though they suffered endlessly, they would not give them up, even for salvation, perfect divine love.

Janet Fitch

#93. You write your first novel with the desperation of the damned. You're afraid that you'll never write anything else, ever again.

Patricia Duncker

#94. I want to find a way of speaking to fellow human beings that will be cool rather than heated, philosophical rather than polemical, that will bring enlightenment rather than seeking to divide us into the righteous and the sinners, the saved and the damned, the sheep and the goats.

J.M. Coetzee

#95. I never wanted to be a god, he thought. I wanted only to disappear like a jewel of trace dew caught by the morning. I wanted to escape the angels and the damned - alone ... as though by an oversight.

Anonymous

#96. The damned cats like pushing the reset button on my computer.

Adam Rifkin

#97. Me personally, I side more with punk rock bands. I grew up with The Misfits, The Dead Boys, The Damned, Dropkick Murphys, and early AFI. That was the stuff that really got me into music. Song writing wise, bands like Alkaline Trio were very important to me for beginning to write songs.

Andy Biersack

#98. And if that weren't bad enough, the next sound he heard was a loud click.
The damned woman had locked him out. She'd taken all the food and locked him out.
"You'll pay for this!" he yelled at the door.
"Do be quiet," came the muffled reply. "I'm eating.

Julia Quinn

#99. The spirit who inhabits her animates us all. Destroy the host, you destroy the power. The young die first; the old wither slowly; the eldest perhaps would go last. But she is the Queen of the Damned, and the Damned can't live without her.

Anne Rice

#100. You can't beat a good sonnet, and you can write a sonnet without being married to the damned thing.

Bonnie Jo Campbell