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Quotes About Condemned

Our self-love can less bear to have our tastes than our opinions condemned.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Why is Thorn, a person with a noble heart made to wear the form of a monster, condemned to live here shackled to the shadows and the stone?
~ Kate Macdonald
we found ourselves launched into this tormented sea, where guilty beings transformed into those fowls and these fish, seemed condemned to swim on everlastingly without any haven in store, or beat that black air without any horizon.
~ Herman Melville
clear of the ships and shelters!" So he pleaded, lost in his own great innocence ... condemned to beg for his own death and brutal doom.
~ Homer
And still, even from the cells of the condemned, the message was going out: the class war was still on in that supposedly classless society, the United States.
~ Howard Zinn
All the while I had been in San Juan I'd condemned it without really disliking it. I felt that sooner or later I would see that third dimension, that depth that makes a city real and that you never see until you've been there awhile.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
Just as, at least in one religion, accidia is the first of the cardinal sins, so bordom, and particularly the incredible circumstance of waking up bored, was the only vice Bond utterly condemned.
~ Ian Fleming
Some endeavours are doomed at their inception, not by cowardice bu by their very nature.
~ Ian Mcewan
This is not war. This is…what? Errant save us, I have no answer, no way to describe the magnitude of this slaughter. It is mindless. Blasphemous. As if we have forgotten dignity. Theirs, our own. The word itself. No distinction between innocence and guilt, condemned by mere existence.
~ Steven Erikson
Ni inbillar er att en oskyldig dödsdömd är annorlunda än en vanlig dödsdömd, men det är ju inte alls fallet, eftersom bilorna i bägge fallen är identiska, eftersom bödelns obarmhärtighet i bägge fallen är like stor, eftersom han i världens ögon är lika skyldig som den skyldige.
~ Stig Dagerman
A common soldier will make an empire, but he will eventually meet his fate and be condemned to the Great Rock.
~ Nostradamus
Do you know what it's like to be condemned to love?
~ Sergei Lukyanenko, Night Watch
It seemed that we were condemned to be who we were, which was not a particularly good prospect.
~ Thomas Buergenthal
Quiere decir, malicioso? Sí, soy un poco malicioso –dijo Settembrini–. Lo que lamento es estar condenado a malgastar mi maldad en cosas tan miserables.
~ Thomas Mann
They see the church making accommodations for the divorced and remarried, and for many other things condemned in Scripture, while enforcing exclusionary policies against gay people.
~ Ken Wilson
Do you regret my sufferings? Do you regret my unhappiness? I have no sorrow for what I did in my necessity. Let the Galaxy protect itself as best it can, since it stirred not a whit for my protection when I needed it." "Your emotions are, of course," said the First Speaker, "only the children of your background and are not to be condemned—merely changed.
~ Isaac Asimov
Can a condemned tribe lead itself to its own burial?
~ Isaac Bashevis Singer
All fraudulent elections should be condemned, including those in Turkey and Russia. And we need to be doubly mindful not to indulge amateur socialists in this country, because even though a Bernie Sanders presidency is a joke, the consequences of diet communism are deadly serious.
~ Lisa Kennedy Montgomery
Mere unorthodoxy or dissent from the prevailing mores is not to be condemned. The absence of such voices would be a symptom of grave illness to our society.
~ Earl Warren
Who in the face of love dares speak to me of Hell! - Condemned Women: Delphine and Hippolyta
~ Charles Baudelaire
I'm the vampire of my own heart— One of those utter derelicts Condemned to eternal laughter, But who can no longer smile!
~ Charles Baudelaire
Surely there would be humidity and plenty of it in Hell. Hard to imagine a condemned sinner saying cheerfully, Well, yes, it's two hundred and sixty degrees down here, but it's a *dry* heat.
~ Tom Robbins
There are those who have condemned Leary as a liar, a sellout, an opportunist, and most of all, a raging egomaniac; but the truth is, he was simply Irish.
~ Tom Robbins
Tyrion Lannister had claimed that most men would rather deny a hard truth than face it, but Jon was done with denials. He was who he was; Jon Snow, bastard and oathbreaker, motherless, friendless, and damned. For the rest of his life-however long that might be-he would be condemned to be an outsider, the silent man standing in the shadows who dares not speak his true name.
~ George R.R. Martin