Doomed Quotes - Page 8

• A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

  Aldous Huxley

  Death, Ambition, Frustration

  Aldous Huxley (2002). “Complete Essays: 1939-1956”, Ivan R Dee

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• If you have ever, sir, been through a breakup of a romantic relationship that involved great love, you will perhaps understand what I experienced. There is in such situations usually a moment of passion during which the unthinkable is said; this is followed by a sense of euphoria at finally being liberated; the world seems fresh as if seen for the first time then comes the inevitable period of doubt, the desperate and doomed backpedaling of regret; and only later, once emotions have receded, is one able to view with equanimity the journey through which one has passed.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Breakup, Regret, Love You

  Mohsin Hamid (2007). “The Reluctant Fundamentalist”, p.158, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The pain comes from more than the facts of circumstance, or the deeds of others. It comes from within. From understanding what we lost. It comes from knowing how foolish we were - vain, arrogant children - when we thought ourselves happy. It comes from knowing how fragile and doomed the old ways were, just when we thought them and ourselves, secure!. The pain comes from knowing we have never been safe, and therefore will never be safe again. It comes from knowing we can never be children again.

  John Jakes

  Children, Pain, Knowing

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• 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

  Laughing, Trying, Mankind

  Karen Marie Moning (2016). “The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned”, p.1352, Dell

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• Rage - Goddess, sing the rage of Peleus' son Achilles, murderous, doomed, that cost the Achaeans countless losses, hurling down to the House of Death so many sturdy souls, great fighters' souls, but made their bodies carrion, feasts for the dogs and birds, and the will of Zeus was moving toward its end. Begin, Muse, when the two first broke and clashed, Agamemnon lord of men and brilliant Achilles.

  Homer

  Dog, Moving, Loss

  Homer (2002). “The Iliad”, Spark Notes

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• If we be doomed to marry, we marry; if we be doomed to remain single we do.

  Thomas Hardy

  Single, Being Single, Ifs

  Thomas Hardy (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Thomas Hardy (Illustrated)”, p.492, Delphi Classics

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• It is much more sensible to be an optimist instead of a pessimist, for if one is doomed to disappointment, why experience it in advance?

  Barbara Mertz

  Disappointment, Pessimist, Optimist

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• I am fundamentally happy. Everyone has experiences that makes them cynical, jaded or unhappy - you just have to fight those things off. I have totally emotional days when I cry and get insecure. PMS weirded out, doomed and tragic. I mean, I'm definitely not just a lollipop, happy in the wind girl. I'm human just like everyone else, but I think that it would be tragic to be on your deathbed and think, 'I could've I should've.' That gets me out of bed everyday. I can't even last like an hour in bed in the morning. I have to get out there and live.

  Drew Barrymore

  Girl, Morning, Mean

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• I'm going, she said. I love you but you're crazy, you're doomed.

  Charles Bukowski

  Crazy, Love You, Said

  Charles Bukowski (2016). “On Love”, p.122, Canongate Books

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• The immense accretion of flesh which had descended on her in middle life like a flood of lava on a doomed city had changed her from a plump active little woman with a neatly-turned foot and ankle into something as vast and august as a natural phenomenon. She had accepted this submergence as philosohpically as all her other trials, and now, in extreme old age, was rewarded by presenting to her mirror an almost unwrinkled expanse of firm pink and white flesh, in the centre of which the traces of a small face survived as if awaiting excavation.

  Edith Wharton

  Mirrors, August, Cities

  Edith Wharton (2014). “Edith Wharton The Dover Reader”, p.271, Courier Corporation

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• 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

  Believe, Passionate, Hopeless

  Philip Pullman (2017). “The Shadow in the North: A Sally Lockhart Mystery”, p.128, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• If he could learn to love another, and earn her love in return by the time the last petal fell, then the spell would be broken. If not, he would be doomed to remain a beast for all time. As the years passed, he fell into despair and lost all hope. For who could ever learn to love a beast? -Beauty & the Beast

  Walt Disney

  Years, Broken, Despair

  "Beauty and the Beast", 1991.

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• You don't dare think whole even to yourself the entirety of a dear hope or wish let alone a desperate one else you yourself have doomed it.

  William Faulkner

  Thinking, Wish, Desperate

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• We have doomed the wolf not for what it is, but for what we deliberately and mistakenly perceive it to be –the mythologized epitome of a savage ruthless killer – which is, in reality, no more than a reflected image of ourself.

  Farley Mowat

  Motivational, Animal, Reality

  Farley Mowat (2015). “Never Cry Wolf”, p.6, Open Road Media

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• Out last chance is a cat's magic sight. We are doomed.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Cat, Sight, Magic

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• Why it was that upon this beautiful feminine tissue, sensitive as gossamer, and practically blank as snow as yet, there should have been traced such a coarse pattern as it was doomed to receive; why so often the coarse appropriates the finer thus, the wrong man the woman, the wrong women the man, many years of analytical philosophy have failed to explain to our sense of order

  Thomas Hardy

  Beautiful, Philosophy, Men

  1891 Tess of the D'Urbervilles, ch.11.

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• A change of environment is the traditional fallacy upon which doomed loves, and lungs, rely.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Environment, Fallacy, Rely

  Vladimir Nabokov (2016). “Lolita”, p.132, Hamilton Books

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• Kids who don't eavesdrop on adult conversations are doomed to a childhood of ignorance.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Ignorance, Kids, Childhood

  Kelley Armstrong (2010). “Men of the Otherworld”, p.174, Vintage Canada

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• you're doomed at being you.

  Chuck Palahniuk

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• In the conditions of modern life the rule is absolute, the race which does not value trained intelligence is doomed. Not all your heroism, not all your social charm, not all your wit, not all your victories on land or at sea, can move back the finger of fate. To-day we maintain ourselves. To-morrow science will have moved forward yet one more step, and there will be no appeal from the judgment which will then be pronounced on the uneducated.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Education, Moving, Science

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Aims of Education”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

  Beautiful, Order, Fans

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• Television doomed us to the Family, whose household instrument it has become-what the hearth used to be, flanked by the communal kettle.

  Roland Barthes

  Heart, Television, Used

  Roland Barthes, Richard Howard (1989). “Bruissement de la Langue”, p.346, Univ of California Press

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• Like two doomed ships that pass in storm we had crossed each other's way: but we made no sign, we said no word, we had no word to say.

  Oscar Wilde

  Two, Storm, Way

  'The Ballad of Reading Gaol' (1898) pt. 2, st. 12

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• The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.

  Bertrand Russell

  Death, Time, Fate

  Bertrand Russell (2016). “Mysticism and Logic”, p.85, Bertrand Russell

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• Great art... is the result of the labours of thousands of faithful craftsmen who know that they are doomed to remain for ever outside the gates of the Paradise of Perfection, but who nevertheless will give the very best there is in them because the work they do means more to them than anything else in this world.

  Hendrik Willem van Loon

  Art, Mean, Greatness

  Hendrik Willem Van Loon, Grace Castagnetta (1937). “The Arts”, New York : Simon and Schuster

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