Best 97 quotes in «doom quotes» category

I think the only way to properly face doom is to be on time.

Most smart people tend to feel queasy when the conversation turns to things like "certain death" and "total failure" and the idea of a "doomed generation." But not me. I am comfortable with these themes. There is nothing new about them, except when they come all at once. Any conversation that can make smart people confront a mix of Death, Doom, and Failure with a straight face is probably worth listening in on. They don't come around real often, and when they do it almost always means that at least two of the people doing the talking are in very serious trouble.

It sounded somewhat doom-laden, so I felt obliged to look it up more thoroughly, in case I should eat some chocolate rather quickly.

I was filled with a sense of doom that dragged my heart down into my boots

Men said afterward that no blacker night had ever fallen...The wind roared through the city, ripping up slates, clawing at the houses until those within feared that not a wall would stand until morning. They thought they heard voices wailing high above the earth, and those who peered out swore that they saw terrible things as the north wind, the demon wind, bore southward the nightmares of a dying land.

O, great wise man,' she said, 'I have been wondering so many things. Is life more than sitting at home doing the same thing over and over? Wise man, is life more than watching one's relatives do unpleasant things, or more than grim tasks one must perform at school and at work? Is life more than being entertained by literature, wise man, or more than traveling from one place to another, suffering from poor emotional health and pondering the people one loves? And what about those who lead a life of mystery? And the mysteries of life? And, wise man, what about the overall feeling of doom that one cannot ever escape no matter what one does, and miscellaneous things that I have neglected to mention in specific?

Passionate people say to their obstacles “I may fall, I may lose everything I have, but if I still get me, you are still in trouble because am coming back and when I come back, you are doomed”. Passion is a serious secret that sailed people to the top!

Pandora's Box could not be unopened, no one could return to Eden.

She told herself that she was happy to meet her executioner.

Queer, how I misinterpreted the designations of doom.

Prehistory of mankind is way too horrible to be remembered. But if we choose to ignore it, then we'll be doomed to repeat it.

She lived in the dream world of unreality, or else she would not admit reality; he did not know. In any case, he loved her as she was. It might never be used, but it would give her pleasure to have it.

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.

That art gives charm to terrible things is perhaps its glory, perhaps its curse. Art is a doom.

Someone who doesn’t know if tomorrow will come would rather live every day twice than live it once.

The Americans have no sense of doom, none whatever. They do not recognize doom when they see it.

The light was everywhere. He would tell me later I looked like an angel... but he just looked like the same devil to me

The doom of destruction is the snare of sin.

The danger of darkness is deep doom!

The foundation of morality on the human sentiments of what is acceptable behavior versus repulsive behavior has always made morals susceptible to change. Much of what was repulsive 100 years ago is normal today, and - although it may be a slippery slope - what is repulsive today is possible to be normal 100 years into tomorrow; the human standard has always been but to push the envelope. In this way, all generations are linked, and one can only hope that every extremist, self-proclaimed progressive is considering this ultimate 'Utopia' to which his kindness will lead at the end of the chain.

There was, I thought, something calling to me from out in the dark. It came from out in the tempest, even from the lights of the fishing boats a mile out at sea. You can be called to a last effort, a final heroic statement, because I doubt you call yourself to leave comforts and certainties for an open road. But the call is inside your own head. It's a sad summons from the depths of your own wasted past. You could call it the imperative to go out with full-tilt trumpets and gunshots instead of the quietly desperate sound of the hospital ventilator. Victory instead of defeat.

The world has its own ways of treating us like what we will never be, but want to be. It relinquishes its grip on our souls while lulling us with the songs of freedom and conquest of beauty. It magnifies every tiny bit of something useless over an unfathomable presence of humanity. And we all waste the whole of our lives standing in queue for gaining its attention to be abdicated as if we never existed in the eyes of our fellow men.

They trained me for this. It's their own fault. They helped make their own doom.

While the light remains,' said Carde, speaking slowly in his high deliberate voice, 'only do not forsake the joy of life. If you shall have given all your kisses, you will give too few. And as leaves fall from withered wreaths which you may see spread upon the cups and floating there, so for us, who now as lovers hope for so much, perhaps tomorrow's day will close the doom.

Thunder and blood and night must usurp our parts, to complete and make up the catastrophe of this great piece.

Try persuading the world not to cut its throat for half a decade or more...and it'll begin to dawn on you that even your behavior's part of its plan.

An equal doom clipp'd Time's blest wings of peace.

Your heart swallowed me like a well and I will never be able to climb out. I fell. I fell into your infinity. And my inability to free myself will doom your life.

You are the happy one. I am the doomed fool.

Don't let the doom criers and the cynics persuade you that the best is past.

Crackdown, the video, interpreted and reflected a sense of authority and austerity and a sense of slight, impending doom.

Beginning with doom in the bulb, the spring unravels.

Be sure that God Ne'er dooms to waste the strength he deigns impart.

Columbus's doom-burdened caravels Slant to the shore, and all their seamen land.

Doom 2 is just such a bigger, badder, better version of Doom

Doom comes about because of neglecting to evaluate one's self and because of just following one's whims.

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!

I don't want to paint a picture of total gloom and doom.

Fear results in fight or flight. Anxiety creates doom and gloom. Fear is the pulse that pounds when you see a coiled rattlesnake in your front yard. Anxiety is the voice that tells you, Never, ever, for the rest of your life, walk barefooted through the grass. There might be a snake...somewhere.

He is coming! He is coming! Like a bridegroom from his room, Came the hero from his prison To the scaffold and the doom.

I am convinced the prophets of doom have to be taken seriously.

I'd bet a million dollars on DOOM against Lil' Wayne

Peter Pan, prepare to meet thy doom.

I'm very lucky. I actually like screenwriting. I rarely feel a sense of doom going to my desk.

Instead of taking environmentalism away from the left, conservatives condemn it as a counsel of doom.

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.

Our doom is, to be sifted by the wind, heaped up, smoothed down like silly sands. We are less permanent than thought.

In truth the prison, unto which we doom Ourselves, no prison is.

It is the glorious doom of literature that the evil perishes and the good remains.

My doom and my strength is to be solitary.