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Quotes About Doom

Today our world is mad in its obsession with pleasure, sex, and money. Its ear is too dull to hear the truth. Most men's eyes are blind. They do not want to see. They do not want to hear. They hurry to their doom.
~ Billy Graham
We are headed for perfect disaster..
~ Blake Lewis
Is the whole world doomed to emotional trauma?
~ Helen Fielding
The old witch bears many giants for sons, and all in the shape of wolves; and from this source are those wolves sprung. The saying runs thus: from this race shall come one that shall be mightiest of all; he that is named Moon-Hound; he shall be filled with the flesh of all those men that die, and he shall swallow the moon, and sprinkle with blood the heavens and all the air; thereof shall the sun lose her shining, and the winds in that day shall be unquiet and roar on every side.
~ Snorri Sturluson
Only in his dreams had he encountered this sensation before: the doom-laden knowledge that one is trapped in a predicament that makes no sense and will never make sense, no matter what one does.
~ Sophie Hannah
To feed death with her works is here life's doom.
~ Sri Aurobindo
Trickster, love will be the end of you.
~ Michael Buckley
She could not help it. She had a catastrophic imagination; an air of imminent doom darkens much of even her sunniest work.
~ Michael Chabon
Beauty - the beauty Peter craves - is this, then: a human bundle of accidental grace and doom and hope. Mizzy must have hope, he must, he wouldn't shine like this if he were in true despair, and of course he's young, who in this world despairs more exquisitely than the young, it's something the old tend to forget.
~ Michael Cunningham
Anyway, you couldn't use standard methods to date the doom; might as well say that Vietnam was where the Trail of Tears was headed all along, the turnaround point where it would touch and come back to form a containing perimeter; might just as well lay it on the proto-Gringos who found the New England woods too raw and empty for their peace and filled them up with their own imported devils.
~ Michael Herr
A deep unholy chuckle arose from the shattered pit. It was the mocking laughter of the earth elemental King Grome, taking his rightful subjects back into his keeping. Whining, the devil-dogs slunk towards the edge of the pit, sniffing around it. Then, with one accord, the black pack hurled itself down into the chasm, following its masters to whatever unholy doom awaited it.
~ Michael Moorcock
What would it be like if we had four years and four months to watch an inescapable doom advancing toward us, knowing that when it finally arrived it would blow the skin right off our bones?
~ Bill Bryson
Well the deputy walks on hard nails and the preacher rides a mount, But nothing really matters much it's doom alone that counts.
~ Bob Dylan
They say it came first from Africa, carried in the screams of the enslaved; that it was the death bane of the Thainos, uttered just as one world perished and another began; that it was a demon drawn into Creation through the nightmare door that was cracked open in the Antilles. Fukú Americanus, or more colloquially, fukú-generally a curse or a doom of some kind; specifically the Curse and Doom of the New World.
~ Junot Diaz
Ah! Violetta! My little cloud of doom! Even you cannot dampen my spirits right now.
~ Kaja Foglio
Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom.
~ Don DeLillo
Communication is pointless and we're all doomed.
~ Frank Portman
In modern history has one central tenet, it is that the masses will embrace anything if it's cheap and easy. This is our fundamental weakness and will almost certainly lure the entire human race to its doom. Thermonuclear Armageddon would require far too much cerebral effort – our collective fate is a bear trap baited with a cheeseburger.
~ Bradley Trevor Greive
Tremble and fear, all enemies!" he shouted. "For we shall shake the air with thunder and blood! Your doom is imminent!
~ Brandon Sanderson
Fine," Navani said. "I hope when you die—knowing your homeland is doomed, your families enslaved, your queen executed—you feel satisfied knowing that at least you maintained a slight market advantage.
~ Brandon Sanderson
Black is so monotonous that you can forget about it, but red—you'd always be thinking, 'Why, look at that. That hill is red. That evil force of doom trying to destroy me certainly has style.
~ Brandon Sanderson
Once there was a boy named Alcatraz. He did some stuff that was kind of interesting. Then one day, he betrayed those who depended on him, doomed the world, and murdered someone who loved him. The end.
~ Brandon Sanderson
The vice in the air, otherwise, was too much like the breath of fate.
~ Henry James
It was as if her doom so floated her on that she couldn't stop.
~ Henry James