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Quotes About Doom

I love the thrill of impending, weightless doom, so I built something to give me those feelings all the time...I like the idea of something that can give you those feelings all the time. I want something like that, and then I look at Violet and think: There she is.
~ Jennifer Niven
I am the only being whose doom No tongue would ask, no eye would mourn; I never caused a thought of gloom, A smile of joy, since I was born.
~ Emily Bronte
When I hoped I feared, Since I hoped I dared; Everywhere alone As a church remain; Spectre cannot harm, Serpent cannot charm; He deposes doom, Who hath suffered him.
~ Emily Dickinson
Elysium is as far as to The very nearest Room If in that Room a Friend await Felicity or doom. What fortitude the soul contains That it can so endure The accent of a coming foot, The opening of a door?
~ Emily Dickinson
Perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring, doomed to try and learn what I should simply recognize, learning a mere fraction of what I have forgotten.
~ Andre Breton
At the end of time, when the many become one, the last storm shall gather its angry winds to destroy a land already dying. And at its center, the blind man shall stand upon his own grave.
~ Robert Jordan
ABANDON ALL HOPE, YE WHO ENTER HERE. Those skeletons were part of the psychological warfare waged against all intruders by this mindless, deathless, diabolical city.
~ Robert Silverberg
It often takes great courage to not let rumors and talk of doom and gloom affect your doubts and fears. But a savvy investor knows that the seemingly worst of times is actually the best of times to make money. When everyone else is too afraid to act, they pull the trigger and are rewarded.
~ Robert T. Kiyosaki
His face was sad and stern because of the doom that was laid on him, and yet hope dwelt ever in the depths of his heart, from which mirth would arise at times like a spring from a rock.
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
Justice divine has weighed: the doom is clear. All hope renounce, ye lost, who enter here.
~ Dante Alighieri
California deserves whatever it gets. Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom.
~ Don DeLillo, White Noise
The gods! long since they hold us in contempt, Scornful of gifts thus offered by the lost! Why should we fawn and flinch away from doom?
~ Aeschylus
Shameless self-willed infatuation Emboldens men to dare damnation, And starts the wheels of doom which roll Relentless to their piteous goal.
~ Aeschylus
OH THIS IS A BLACK DAY FOR YOU, YOUNG YOKUM--AND FOR ALL HUMANITY!!!
~ Al Capp
She was gracious and yet fading, like an old statue in a garden, that symbolizes the weather through which it has endured, and is not so much the work of man as the work of wind and rain and the herd of the seasons, and though formed in men's image is a figure of doom.
~ Djuna Barnes
She was gracious and yet fading, like an old statue in a garden, that symbolizes the weather through which it has endured, and is not so much the work of man as the work of wind and rain and the herd of the seasons, and though formed in man's image is a figure of doom.
~ Djuna Barnes
Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom.
~ Don DeLillo
California deserves whatever it gets. Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom.
~ Don DeLillo
impending, weightless doom.
~ Jennifer Niven
I think about impending, weightless doom. It's a phrase I like and understood. I tuck it away in the corner of my mind to pull out later, maybe for a song.
~ Jennifer Niven
A slow-motion train wreck. For something to go this colossally wrong, everything must intersect and collide at the exact right, or in this case, wrong, moment.
~ Jenny Han
Much of the population was in a mild stupor, depressed, congregating in small unstable groups, and prone to rumors of doom. But I don't know. That's pretty much every day here.
~ Jenny Offill
It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I have periled life and reputation and reason. It has been the desperate attempt to escape from torturing memories, from a sense of insupportable loneliness and a dread of some strange impending doom. —Edgar Allan Poe
~ Jerry Stahl
But these, wide-finned in silver, roaring, the light mist of their propellers in the sun, these do not move like sharks. They move like nothing there has ever been. They move like mechanized doom.
~ Ernest Hemingway