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Quotes About Doom

Modern science says: 'The sun is the past, the earth is the present, the moon is the future.' From an incandescent mass we have originated, and into a frozen mass we shall turn. Merciless is the law of nature, and rapidly and irresistibly we are drawn to our doom.
~ Nikola Tesla
How much does your life have to suck to want the Apocalypse?
~ Laini Taylor
A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Europe is standing on the brink of the greatest tragedy in the history of the human race: a new world war, that may involve the doom of our entire civilisation.
~ Vidkun Quisling
I became an uncle when I was barely out of diapers myself," Izzy told her as he gathered up Ash's bag. "I speak baby at a high level of expertise, so we'll be fine. My cell phone's on. I won't be insulted when you call to check in, so do what you need to do. Call every five minutes, if you want. If I don't answer, it's because I'm dealing with a two-handed diaper of doom. I'll call you right back if that happens.
~ Suzanne Brockmann
On the metaphysical front, the burning of sage is unsucessful. House reeks of doom, and now sage too.
~ Suzanne Finnamore
I am greatly proud of the fact that 'Doom' is one of those things where everything that has a 32-bit processor has had 'Doom' run on it, and I think that's been one of the great aspects of having it be open source: having everything out there means that people have maintained that and kept it up to date.
~ John Carmack
In a letter hastily written to a friend in London, Cushman saw only doom and disaster ahead. "Friend, if ever we make a plantation God works a miracle, especially considering how scant we shall be of victuals, and most of all un-united amongst ourselves and devoid of good tutors and regiment. Violence will break all. Where is the meek and humble spirit of Moses?
~ Nathaniel Philbrick
One hundred and thirty IQ points all focused on cooking up doom. Lev can't hope to compete with that.
~ Neal Shusterman
I gave him my code name. 'This is Mr. Slow Death.
~ Charles Bukowski
Those whom the gods would destroy, they first make proud
~ Tom Clancy
Consider another consequence of the blatant, violent uses to which foreignness is put—ethnic cleansing. We would be not merely remiss but irrelevant if we did not address the doom currently faced by millions of people reduced to animal, insect, or polluted status by nations with unmitigated, unrepentant power to decide who is a stranger and whether they live or die at, or far from, home.
~ Toni Morrison
You're right, Simon. Thank you for coming. (Sin) (Simon threw himself against the stone wall, his face a mask of shock and dismay.) Callie, quick, take cover, love. The castle is doomed. Sin said thank you to me. The end of the earth is upon us. (He crossed himself.) Hail Mary full of grace. (Simon)
~ Kinley MacGregor
what a horrible thing your body is, the way it's doomed from day one, your fate is death no matter what you do.
~ Caroline Kepnes
Think how the joys of reading a Gazette Are purchased by all agonies and crimes: Or if these do not move you, don't forget Such doom may be your own in aftertimes.
~ George Gordon Byron
The older dragons had died during the intervening years, but Balerion lived on, growing ever larger, fiercer, and more willful. If we discount the tales of certain sorcerers and mountebanks (as we should), he is mayhaps the only living creature in the world that knew Valyria before the Doom.
~ George R.R. Martin
Death comes out of the dragon's mouth.
~ George R.R. Martin
Septon Barth's claim that the Valyrians came to Westeros because their priests prophesied that the Doom of Man would come out of the land beyond the narrow sea can safely be dismissed as nonsense, as can many of Barth's queerer beliefs and suppositions.
~ George R.R. Martin
It is the just doom of laziness and a gluttony to be inactive without ease, and drowsy without tranquillity.
~ Samuel Johnson
Spending time with you is like watching paint dry." Lassiter's voice echoed up to the stalactites hanging from the Tomb's high ceiling. "Except without the home improvement—which is a tragedy, given how this place looks. Do you guys always go for the gloom and doom? You never hear of Pottery Barn?" -Lassiter to Tohr
~ J.R. Ward
her mind is bent on something else—she's after me; she won't understand how much I love her, she's knitting my doom.
~ Jack Kerouac
That lack of programmability is probably what ultimately will doom vi. It can't extend its domain.
~ Bill Joy
The field of doom bears death as its harvest.
~ Aeschylus
The present war is the saturation point in violence. It spells, to my mind, also its doom.
~ Mahatma Gandhi