Doom Quotes
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“If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.”
― A Farewell to Arms
― A Farewell to Arms

“Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil... prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no one seemed to have thought about the double-barrel shotgun. Eat leaden death, demon...”
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“Do you know how sometimes - when you are riding your bike and you start skidding across sand, or when you miss a step and start tumbling down the stairs - you have those long, long seconds to know that you are going to be hurt, and badly?”
― My Sister鈥檚 Keeper
― My Sister鈥檚 Keeper

“No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.”
― Daniel Deronda
― Daniel Deronda

“God's creatures who cried themselves to sleep stirred to cry again.”
― The Silence of the Lambs
― The Silence of the Lambs

“If the doom of failure stifles some time the path of our life, it can pin us down like downtrodden aliens, while, meanwhile, the world around is erupting in joy and contentment. Let's go back then to the nuts and bolts and consult the core of our inner self. ("The grass was greener over there")”
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“Eat, Your Highness. "
"Everything tastes like doom, " he whispered.
"Then add salt.”
― King of Scars
"Everything tastes like doom, " he whispered.
"Then add salt.”
― King of Scars

“For a hundred years or more the world, our world, has been dying. And not one man, in these last hundred years or so, has been crazy enough to put a bomb up the asshole of creation and set it off. The world is rotting away, dying piecemeal. But it needs the coup de grace, it needs to be blown to smithereens. Not one of us is intact, and yet we have in us all the continents and the seas between the continents and the birds of the air. We are going to put it down 鈥� the evolution of this world which has died but which has not been buried.”
― Tropic of Cancer
― Tropic of Cancer

“No death, no doom, no anguish can arouse the surpassing despair which flows from a loss of identity.
- Through the Gates of the Silver Key”
― The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath
- Through the Gates of the Silver Key”
― The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath

“No destiny attacks us from outside. But, within him, man bears his fate and there comes a moment when he knows himself vulnerable; and then, as in a vertigo, blunder upon blunder lures him.”
― Night Flight
― Night Flight

“But does it make any sense at all to know that it ends badly for all of us, even the happiest of us, and that we all lose everything that matters in the end-and yet to know as well, despite all this, as cruelly as the game is stacked, that it's possible to play it with a kind of joy?
To try to make some meaning out of all this seems unbelievably quaint. Maybe I only see a pattern because I've been staring too long. But then again, to paraphrase Boris, maybe I see a pattern because it's there.”
― The Goldfinch
To try to make some meaning out of all this seems unbelievably quaint. Maybe I only see a pattern because I've been staring too long. But then again, to paraphrase Boris, maybe I see a pattern because it's there.”
― The Goldfinch

“Now when T煤rin learnt from Finduilas of what had passed, he was wrathful, and he said to Gwindor: 'In love I hold you for your rescue and sake-keeping. But now you have done ill to me, friend, to betray my right name, and call my doom upon me, from which I would lie hid.'
But Gwindor answered: 'The doom lies in yourself, not in your name.”
― The Children of H煤rin
But Gwindor answered: 'The doom lies in yourself, not in your name.”
― The Children of H煤rin

“He knew that all the hazards and perils were now drawing together to a point: the next day would be a day of doom, the day of final effort or disaster, the last gasp.”
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“Hope is the great deceiver. Hope is the piper who leads us sleepy to our slaughter.”
― The Broken Eye
― The Broken Eye

“A single radio post still heard him. The only link between him and the world was a wave of music, a minor modulation. Not a lament, no cry, yet purest of sounds that ever spoke despair.”
― Night Flight
― Night Flight

“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.”
― My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
But if we choose to ignore it, then we'll be doomed to repeat it.”
― My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

“But now the Light supreme is far away:
Our conscious life obeys the inconscience鈥� laws;
To ignorant purposes and blind desires
Our hearts are moved by an ambiguous force;
Even our mind鈥檚 conquests wear a battered crown.
A slowly changing order binds our will.
This is our doom until our souls are free.
02.05_043:025-027”
― Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol
Our conscious life obeys the inconscience鈥� laws;
To ignorant purposes and blind desires
Our hearts are moved by an ambiguous force;
Even our mind鈥檚 conquests wear a battered crown.
A slowly changing order binds our will.
This is our doom until our souls are free.
02.05_043:025-027”
― Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol

“There were days when from the moment she came out of sleep, she could feel doom hanging over her head like a low rain cloud. Those were difficult days to live through, not so much because of the sensation of suspended disaster of which she was acutely conscious then, but because the customary smooth functioning of her system of omens was wholly upset. If on ordinary days on her way out to go shopping she turned her ankle or scraped her shin on the furniture, it was easy to conclude that the shopping expedition would be a failure for one reason or another, or that it might be actually dangerous for her to persist in making it. At least on those days she knew a good omen from a bad one. But the other days were treacherous, for the feeling of doom was so strong that it became a hostile consciousness just behind or beside her, forseeing her attempts to avoid flying in the face of the evil omens, and thus all too able to set traps for her.”
― The Sheltering Sky
― The Sheltering Sky
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