Top 100 We Re Doomed Quotes
#1. We're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive. It's pretty dense kids who haven't figured that out by the time they're ten ... Most kids can't afford to go to Harvard and be misinformed.
Kurt Vonnegut
#2. We all want to believe this American pastoral, but there's more to it. We have to be willing to exile ourselves from the fantasies and the mythology that we create around ourselves, or we're doomed to kind of innocently blunder into every country in the world and murder people.
Bill Ayers
#3. Hope? The word seemed to bang from wall to wall. Hope? No, I don't think there's any hope. We're too empty here ... She touched her heart. This isn't a country at all, it's a collection of football players and Eagle Scouts. Cowards. We think we're happy. We're not. We're doomed.
James Baldwin
#5. Just because some of us make a mistake in love once doesn't mean we're doomed to repeat it.
Jeaniene Frost
#6. One of the best moments of any Liars show is hearing the crowd squawk 'We're doomed! We're doomed!' on cue during 'We Fenced Other Houses with the Bones of Our Own.' Maybe not the most uplifting audience sing-along in the indie rock world, but one of the most reliably entertaining.
Rob Sheffield
#7. The idea of accountability in Vietnam, Nicaragua and now Iraq - the media never has that in its quiver. When you see time after time there is no possibility of Nuremberg [war crime trials], we're doomed to have it repeated.
Haskell Wexler
#8. Acadia "Everything is more beautiful because we're doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again." Homer, The Iliad
Mia Sheridan
#9. The key thing about all the world's big problems is that they have to be dealt with collectively. If we don't get collectively smarter, we're doomed.
Douglas Engelbart
#10. There are only two things that can screw this up for us: you and me."
"Then we're doomed for sure.
Ilona Andrews
#11. Mira's never wrong. Whatever she showed you tonight, it's fated to be."
"Fated", he said, sounding amused by that. "Well, shit. Then I guess we're doomed.
Lara Adrian
#12. We're doomed to be do-gooders for the rest of our lives and doomed to fail. But, happily, truth is a relative business.
Jo Nesbo
#13. The gods envy us. They envy us because we're mortal, because any moment may be our last. Everything is more beautiful because we're doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.
Brad Pitt
#14. I don't - you know, I'm very disillusioned with our political system. If we don't wake up in America and realize that we have to vote out of our courage and integrity for candidates who reflect our own beatitudes, and not the beatitudes of the war machine and the corporations, we are - we're doomed.
Cindy Sheehan
#15. As long as Republicans won't - won't raise taxes and as long as Democrats won't in any way make entitlements based on need, rather than just across the board, I really think that we're doomed to this deadlock.
Mark Shields
#16. Statistically, we're doomed.
Statistically, everyone is doomed.
Leah Raeder
#17. 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
#18. We all know we're doomed, but whining about it won't help. Just quietly resign yourself to death.
Cassandra Gannon
#19. We have to protect the bees. If we kill the insects and the bees disappear, we're doomed. The balance is delicate and the health of the plants and animals and consumers is ... Am I putting you to sleep?
Robyn Carr
#21. For the planet's sake, I hope we have bird flu or some other thing that will reduce the population, because otherwise we're doomed.
Susan Blackmore
#22. We are all doomed to seek our own happiness; we can't help ourselves. We are all, the cruel and the gentle alike, condemned to seeking that happiness in the dark. We use our need as the blind use a walking stick, to determine the safety of every forward step.
Jesse Browner
#23. There are people who have an appetite for grief; pleasure is not strong enough and they crave pain. They have mithridatic stomachs which must be fed on poisoned bread, natures so doomed that no prosperity can sooth their ragged and dishevelled desolation.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#24. Are we doomed to it, Lord, chained to the pendulum of our own mad clockwork, helpless to halt its swing?
Walter M. Miller Jr.
#25. Some unifying principles bind all Christians: that God became a man and died for our sins, and that without that sacrifice, all of us would be doomed.
Marco Rubio
#26. This planet is doomed anyway. Eventually the sun will explode or cool and one small insignificant particle of the universe will disappear with only a tremble.
P.D. James
#27. Those who fail to learn from the brutal stompings visited on them in the past are doomed to be brutally stomped in the future.
Hunter S. Thompson
#28. I'm Doomed, Doomed, DOOMED, I tell you" Jock cried
Mark A. Cooper
#29. 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
#30. A plague rides on the air here. The smell of rot! This is Doal's realm. Can't you feel it? The keep is doomed, don't you see? No, I will not pass through this gate. There is a disease in there I will not touch.
Kaoru Kurimoto
#31. Indeed, cousine, I should rather you were a sincere Satanist than a pretend one; for the former recognizes God's majesty, and may be reformed, while the latter is an atheist, and doomed to the Lake of Fire.
Neal Stephenson
#32. What I feared most, though, about my decision to remain celibate was that I had thereby doomed myself to lifelong loneliness.
Wesley Hill
#33. 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
#34. Any company designed for success in the 20th century is doomed to failure in the 21st.
David S. Rose
#35. so this desertion was nothing more than the last rebellion of the doomed, like the lambs that stagger back on their feet after their throats have been cut. In
Laila Lalami
#36. Pandora's Box could not be unopened, no one could return to Eden.
Selena Kitt
#37. Those who survive are those who do not defy the gravity of others. And those who desire even a moment of freedom, find themselves hurled into space, doomed to crash with some unknown force. I no longer desire that freedom. I move, just move. Without meaning.
Mahesh Dattani
#38. I once knew this cellist, Miss Browning,
A swan with whom I enjoyed clowning.
But at night when she bloomed
I felt blissfully doomed.
Far from shore, in danger of drowning.
Julia Glass
#39. Precious souls as young as three or four, raised on the misplaced multicultural priorities of Sesame Street," he claims, "are doomed before they even enter the godless morass of the public school system.
Chuck Palahniuk
#40. History matters. It matters whether we tell the truth about what happened centuries ago, and it matters whether we tell the truth about more recent history. It matters because if we can't we will never be able to face the present, guaranteeing that our future will be doomed.
Robert Jensen
#41. Any attempt to list the ten best science fiction novels is doomed to failure.
Ann Leckie
#42. I smirk a little. I did it, I put that expression on his face. I am not the perfect Abnegation child, doomed to be swallowed by the system and dissolved into obscurity. Instead, I am the first Abnegation-Dauntless transfer in more than a decade.
Veronica Roth
#43. When you violate the rights of one man, you have violated the rights of all, and a public of rightless creatures is doomed to destruction.
Ayn Rand
#44. Pursue your goals with all your heart, might, mind and strength. You are doomed to failure if you pursue them in a vacillating manner
Robert D. Hales
#45. The compulsion to find a lover and husband in a single person has doomed more women to misery than any other illusion.
Carolyn Heilbrun
#46. In images, ... beauty was the agency that caused visual pleasure in the beholder; and any theory of images that was not grounded in the pleasure of the beholder begged the question of their efficacy and doomed itself to inconsequence.
Dave Hickey
#47. I did consider marriage and motherhood extreme and doomed commitments. Not out of any experience of them as such, but it was simply the way I looked at things.
Joan Didion
#48. I'm doomed to act like myself, even when it's inconvenient!
Mary Karr
#49. He offered his love ... she could not bother,
She gives her love to the other! The other!
E.A. Bucchianeri
#50. We are doomed to failure without a daily destruction of our various preconceptions.
Taiichi Ohno
#51. I wish I knew where I was going. Doomed to be carried of the spirit into the wilderness, I suppose. I wish I could be more moderate in my desires, but I cannot, and so there is no rest.
John Muir
#52. Stupidity is doomed,
therefore, to cringe
at every syllable
of wisdom.
Heraclitus
#53. A society that does not defend itself is doomed. A system that remains passive in the face of attack deserves to go under. Those unwilling to defend freedom will become unfree. To stand idly by is to commit suicide.
Brian Crozier
#54. Some researchers had even concluded that the effort to understand the brain was necessarily doomed - that consciousness cannot comprehend consciousness any more than a box may contain itself. "This
Robert Charles Wilson
#55. Miles swallowed icy spit. Those who do not know their history, his thought careened, are doomed to keep stepping in it. Alas, so were those who did, it seemed.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#56. I think in a way, you're doomed, once you can envision something. You're sort of doomed to make it happen. I've found that the moment I can envision leaving a relationship, that's usually the moment that the relationship starts to fall apart.
Chuck Palahniuk
#57. The human race is doomed to sink back farther and farther into the primitive night ere again it begins its bloody climb upward to civilization.
Jack London
#58. Okay, enough self-pity. I'm not doomed. Things will just be harder than planned. I have all I need to survive.
Andy Weir
#59. Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it
Sara Shepard
#60. Anyway," I said loudly. "Are we good? Did the Priest give us enough hoodoo so we can get the fu - fudge out? Sorry, Father."
"It's okay," the priest assured me. "I'm pretty sure your soul is already doomed.
T.J. Klune
#61. The real act of discovery consists not in finding new lands but in seeing with new eyes. The only adventure that is doomed from the start is the one we do not attempt.
Paul-Emile Victor
#62. He who cannot remember the past is doomed. DOOMED!
John Howard
#63. Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.
William Ellery Channing
#64. None of the family had passed the 11-Plus exam, and henceforth cannot be saved, our futures doomed by an undotted i.
Morrissey
#65. The church that is man-managed instead of God-governed is doomed to failure. A ministry that is college-trained but not Spirit-filled works no miracles.
Leonard Ravenhill
#66. He's trying not to laugh. I tell him I would have doomed mankind for him, and he's trying not to laugh.
Karen Marie Moning
#67. So now thee has doomed thy kinsman, repudiated thy father, and caused me to betray my principles. What next?!" "Oh, bloody hell," he said, and grabbed her arms, pulled her roughly to him, and kissed her. He let go and stepped back quickly, leaving her bug-eyed and gasping. The
Diana Gabaldon
#68. It seemed bleakly ironic to me that someone who craved, deserved and had worked so hard to earn a tragic, early death appeared to be doomed to live forever.
Mishka Shubaly
#69. I am not alone in bearing grudges against reviewers who have doomed a book's chances because they've missed the point, the tone, everything ...
Ann Beattie
#70. The day Spenkelink was put to death a popular Jacksonville disc jockey aired a recording of sizzling bacon and dedicated it to the doomed man.
Stephen G. Michaud
#71. If we don't stop somewhere, if we don't accept an unhappy compromise, unhappy for both sides, if we don't learn how to unhappily coexist and contain our burned sense of injustice - if we don't learn how to do that, we end up in a doomed state.
Amos Oz
#72. A man who fears ridicule will never go far, for good or ill: he remains on this side of this talents, and even if he has genius, he is doomed to mediocrity.
Emile M. Cioran
#73. Which of my feelings are real? Which of the me's is me? The wild, impulsive, chaotic, energetic, and crazy one? Or the shy, withdrawn, desperate, suicidal, doomed, and tired one? Probably a bit of both, hopefully much that is neither.
Kay Redfield Jamison
#74. And why love things you were destined to lose? Why let yourself feel things if the feelings were doomed to die?
Garth Risk Hallberg
#75. I pant for retirement and leisure, but am doomed to inexpressible and almost unsupportable hurry.
Sarah Siddons
#76. I may be doomed to the stake and the fire, or to the scaffold tree, but it is not in me to falter if I can promote the work of emancipation.
David Walker
#77. Over the eons I've been a fan of, and sucker for, each latest automated system to 'simplify' and 'bring order to' my life. Very early on this led me to the beautiful-and-doomed Lotus Agenda for my DOS computers, and Actioneer for the early Palm.
James Fallows
#78. Your Honour, unless your Honour, without a moment's loss of time, makes sail for the nearest shore, this is a doomed ship, and her name is the Coffin!
Charles Dickens
#79. Indeed, nearly all attempts to exterminate a doctrine and its organizational expression, by force without spiritual foundation, are doomed to failure, and not seldom end with the exact opposite of the desired result ...
Adolf Hitler
#80. Those who don't know their history are doomed to repeat it. You have to expose who you are so that you can determine what you need to become.
Cynthia A. Patterson
#81. Communication is pointless and we're all doomed.
Frank Portman
#82. Talk about doomed love. He's gay, she's dead, stay tuned.
Aprilynne Pike
#83. Miracles are doomed; they will drop out like fairies and witchcraft, from ...
Matthew Arnold
#84. 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
#85. We're assigned to children who are doomed.
Lisa Dekis
#86. But if you would know, I am turning aside soon. I am going to have a long talk with Bombadil: such a talk as I have not had in all my time. He is a moss-gatherer, and I have been a stone doomed to rolling. But my rolling days are ending, and now we shall have much to say to one another.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#87. If the people fail to vote, a government will be developed which is not their government ... The whole system of American Government rests on the ballot box. Unless citizens perform their duties there, such a system of government is doomed to failure.
Calvin Coolidge
#88. 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
#89. He was aware, as he did so, of a poignant air of tragic dedication in all his actions, the dutiful routines of a doomed picket manning his lonely watch, as, beyond the next range of hills, the barbarian horde mounted its conquering ponies.
Michael Chabon
#90. Winston Churchill said: 'Those who fail to learn from history, are doomed to repeat it.
T.B. Markinson
#91. All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#92. Kids who don't eavesdrop on adult conversations are doomed to a childhood of ignorance.
Kelley Armstrong
#93. 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
#94. God, fate was a sick, twisted bitch. Doomed. He was certainly and absolutely heading straight for the fiery pits of Hell, he realized, as he lusted for his sworn enemy, the vampire.
Marissa Clarke
#95. When we as a nation, strive in vain to preserve the beauty of our national life, forgetting our biblical roots, we are doomed.
Richard Halverson
#96. And, furthermore, how could they kill him who was the chosen of gods and doomed to greatness?
Stephen Crane
#97. 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
#98. In painting I try to make some logic out of the world that has been given to me in chaos. I have a very pretentious idea that I want to make life, I want to make sense out of it. The fact that I am doomed to failure - that doesn't deter me in the least.
Grace Hartigan
#99. Great, big, serious novels always get awards. If it's a battle between a great, big, serious novel and a funny novel, the funny novel is doomed.
Neil Gaiman
#100. The disaster in the Gulf was no accident. It was the result of years of oil money buying off politicians to lead to an unregulated and ill focused addiction to oil and drilling. The doomed fate of the local fisherman and the environment were foretold in the infamous chants of 'Drill, Baby, Drill.'
Robert Greenwald
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