Doom Quotes

• It is the still, small voice that the soul heeds, not the deafening blasts of doom.

  William Dean Howells

  Fate, Voice, Soul

  William Dean Howells (2015). “The March Family Trilogy”, p.509, Simon and Schuster

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• If you are only moved by color relationships, you are missing the point. I am interested in expressing the big emotions - tragedy, ecstasy, doom.

  Mark Rothko

  Color, Missing, Tragedy

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  Everything is more beautiful because we're doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.

  Homer

  Beautiful, Rage From The Iliad, Chaos

  "Troy". www.imdb.com. 2004.

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• No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.

  George Eliot

  Love, Evil, Effort

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.3402, Delphi Classics

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• Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Bending, Bears

  Sonnet 116

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• Greater dooms win greater destinies.

  Heraclitus

  Adversity, Winning, Destiny

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• The doom of a nation can be averted only by a storm of flowing passion, but only those who are passionate themselves can arouse passion in others.

  Adolf Hitler

  Military, Passion, Fate

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• We are living in dangerously weird times now. Smart people just shrug and admit they're dazed and confused. The only ones left with any confidence at all are the New Dumb. It is the beginning of the end of our world as we knew it. Doom is the operative ethic.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Confused, Smart, Our World

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the F”, p.40, Simon and Schuster

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• An inflated consciousness is always egocentric and conscious of nothing but its own existence. It is incapable of learning from the past, incapable of understanding contemporary events, and incapable of drawing right conclusions about the future. It is hypnotized by itself and therefore cannot be argued with. It inevitably dooms itself to calamities that must strike it dead.

  Carl Jung

  Learning, Past, Drawing

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Michael Scott Montague Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1953). “The Collected Works of C.G. Jung: Psychology and alchemy”

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• I think DOOM had just the right mix of elements that keep people coming back to it: great monsters, excellent weapons with great balance, a spooky environment and extreme speed.

  John Romero

  Thinking, People, Scary

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• In the original computer game of Doom, you not only have to kill things. You have to pulverise them.

  Rosamund Pike

  Fate, Games, Computer

  "Bodice ripper" by Will Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. September 8, 2005.

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• That lack of programmability is probably what ultimately will doom vi. It can't extend its domain.

  Bill Joy

  Fate, Domain

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• California deserves whatever it gets. Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom.

  Don DeLillo

  California, Style, Warrants

  Don DeLillo (2011). “White Noise”, p.77, Pan Macmillan

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

  William Edmondstoune Aytoun

  Hero, Rooms, Prison

  1848 Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers and other Poems,'The Execution of Montrose', stanza14.

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• Trends in circulation and advertising - the rise of the Internet, which has made the daily newspaper look slow and unresponsive; the advent of Craigslist, which is wiping out classified advertising-have created a palpable sense of doom.

  Eric Alterman

  Wiping Out, Looks, Trends

  "Out of Print" by Eric Alterman, www.newyorker.com. March 31, 2008.

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• Peter Pan, prepare to meet thy doom.

  Dustin Hoffman

  Hook, Peter

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• Fortune and glory, kid. Fortune and glory.

  James Kahn

  Kids, Glory, Fortune

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• I agree to, or rather aspire to, my doom.

  Pierre Corneille

  Agreement, Agree, Aspire

  "Polyeucte". Book by Pierre Corneille, act IV, scene II, 1642.

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• My hopes were all dead --- struck with a subtle doom, such as, in one night, fell on all the first-born in the land of Egypt. I looked on my cherished wishes, yesterday so blooming and glowing; they lay stark, chill, livid corpses that could never revive.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Disappointment, Night, Land

  Charlotte Bronte (2013). “Jane Eyre”, p.371, Simon and Schuster

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• Life is too short to spend your precious time trying to convince the person who wants to live in gloom and doom otherwise.

  Zig Ziglar

  Life Is Too Short, Trying, Want

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Apr 26, 2014

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• So, if anatomy is destiny then testosterone is doom.

  Al Goldstein

  Fate, Destiny, Testosterone

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• Mmm....she's doomed! You're doomed!! They're all doomed! Notice I didn't specify what kind of doom, so no matter what happens, I predicted it. How very WISE of me.

  Christopher Paolini

  Wise, Cabbage, Matter

  Christopher Paolini (2014). “The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance”, p.697, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Justice divine has weighed: the doom is clear. All hope renounce, ye lost, who enter here.

  Dante Alighieri

  Sad, Justice, Divine

  Dante Alighieri (2013). “Dante's Inferno: The Divine Comedy, Book One”, p.11, Wildside Press LLC

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• The best that we can do is to be kindly and helpful toward our friends and fellow passengers who are clinging to the same speck of dirt while we are drifting side by side to our common doom.

  Clarence Darrow

  Fate, Dirt, Sides

  Clarence Darrow (2015). “The Story of My Life”, p.411, Lulu.com

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

  Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

  Self, Neglect, Whim

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