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Quotes About Doom

That dynamic would doom our efforts to failure.
~ Ben S. Bernanke
There are croakers in every country, always boding its ruin.
~ Benjamin Franklin
For not forgetful is the high gods' doom Against the sons of carnage: all too long Seems the unjust to prosper and be strong, Till the dark Furies come, And smite with stern reversal all his home, Down into dim obstruction--he is gone, And help and hope, among the lost, is none!
~ Benjamin Franklin
All hope abandon, ye who enter here!
~ Dante Alighieri
Whenever possible, Libby prophesized doom.
~ Gillian Flynn
Henry added with apparent anxiety, 'You're wet through, Sarah. One day you'll catch your death of cold.' A cliché with its popular wisdom can sometimes fall through a conversation like a note of doom, yet even if we had known he spoke the truth, I wonder if either of us would have felt any genuine anxiety for her break through our nerves, distrust, and hate.
~ Graham Greene
The Y2K bug is a genuine technical concern, consuming the energies of many specialists. But the prophecies of doom represent a broader worldview using the bug as a news hook. In this vision, the good society is a stable society, undisrupted by innovation, ambition or outside influences.
~ Virginia Postrel
What an excellent father you have, girls!' said she, when the door was shut. 'Such joys are scarce since the good Lord saw fit to close the gates of Hell and doom the dead to walk amongst us.
~ Seth Grahame-Smith
How could he doom her to spend the rest of her days with him?
~ Mary Balogh
I believe that when the last ding-dong of doom has clanged and faded from the last worthless rock hanging tideless in the last red and dying evening, that even then there will still be one more sound: that of [man's] puny inexhaustible voice, still talking. William Faulkner
~ Mary Karr
We have lived under the edge of doom, and feel ourselves now facing the long-threatened fate. But hear this Emrys: fate is made by men, not gods.
~ Mary Stewart
To me this is a dangerous doctrine, which justifies inflicting real pain in the here and now on disadvantaged people on the basis of forestalling a distant possibility of doom.
~ Matt Ridley
Certainly, forties science fiction can be seen as a reaction to or against the vision of a single man, John W. Campbell; in the fifties, H L Gold, Fred Phol, Anthony Boucher and a few others began to solicit stories and propound a science fiction of satire and doom, and in the sixties, Michael Moorcock and Harlan Ellison, by pressuring for and proclaiming a literature of catastrophe, got a great deal of it.
~ Barry N. Malzberg
The right path leads to Elysium, the place of eternal happiness, but "the left-hand path torments / the wicked, leading down to Tartarus, path to doom" (Aeneid, Book 6, lines 631–32).
~ Bart D. Ehrman
Castigation is a doom which achieves itself. In punishing yourself, you come to merit punishment.
~ Stephen R. Donaldson
It was quite obvious, it was, as people say, as clear as day, that Lieutenant Trotta, the grandson of the hero of Solferino, was partly bringing about the doom of others, partly being pulled under by those who were themselves going down, and, in any case, that he was one of those unhappy beings on whom an evil power had cast its evil eye.
~ Joseph Roth
Now for wrath, now for ruin and a red nightfall!
~ Ernest Cline
Nobody has ever seen a dragon, but everybody (especially children) knows they exist. Dragons are projections of our fears, horrible constructions of all that might hurt us. A dragon is total evil. A peasant confronted by a magnificent dragon is completely outclassed. There is no escape: the dragon's thick skin, fiery mouth, lashing serpentine tail, and insatiable greed and lust sign an immediate doom.
~ Eugene H. Peterson
Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes angry.
~ Euripides
Ms. Wrack's mother, Mrs. Wrack, had been a mermaid: a proper one who lived on a rock and combed her hair and sang. But sailors had never been lured to their doom by her, partly because she looked like the back of a bus and partly because modern ships are so high out of the water that they never even saw her
~ Eva Ibbotson
We should not listen to those who continue to repeat the disproved doom-mongering of 'Project Fear.'
~ Priti Patel
Every day it seems more likely that we are destined - or should one say doomed? - to replay the disastrous economic history of the 1930s.
~ Barry Eichengreen
Wyrd bið ful ?ræd. Fate is inexorable.
~ Bernard Cornwell
I make hip-hop, but use Doom as a character to convey stories that a normal dude can't. You have writers that write about crazy characters, but that doesn't mean the writer himself is crazy.
~ MF Doom