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Quotes About Doomed

He found himself, according to his ideas, in the land of Topsyturvydom. Everything was upside down. He had wished to escape from dying. He had come to the land of Perpetual Life with great relief and joy, only to find that the inhabitants themselves, doomed never to die, would consider it bliss to find death.
~ Yei Theodora Ozaki
To be forgotten was a defeat. To be doomed to remember someone was a defeat, too.
~ Yiyun Li
Don't you stupid Aussies get it? Australia is doomed! Nothing, and nobody, can help you. You have sinned willfully after you have received knowledge of the truth.
~ Fred Phelps
Without power, knowledge is useless. without knowledge, faith is tyranny. Without understanding, humanity is blind, and without all four, it is doomed.
~ L.E. Modesitt Jr.
invariably to me, I know, and to any person who saw her, I should think--refuted more tangible proofs of convalescence, and stamped her as one doomed to decay.
~ Emily Bronte
One hoped, and the other despaired: they chose their lots, and were righteously doomed to endure them.
~ Emily Bronte
The pod groaned and complained, fifty-year-old rivets threatening to pop. Holly shook her head. The first thing she was going to do on her return was kick Foaly straight in the hairy behind. She felt like a nut inside a shell, between a gnome's molars. Doomed.
~ Eoin Colfer
People wielding that axe have always been told that we're fucked, we're doomed, we should just try to scrape by, nothing will ever change for the better; from the slave barracks to the Judenräte and onwards, every revolt has been discouraged by the elders of defeatism.
~ Andreas Malm
If the FBI is now in charge of bad taste, we're all doomed.
~ Jerry Della Femina
Some researchers had even concluded that the effort to understand the brain was necessarily doomed—that consciousness cannot comprehend consciousness any more than a box may contain itself. "This
~ Robert Charles Wilson
Maybe this was what the media was calling "desperate euphoria"—the we're-all-doomed-but-anything-can-happen feeling that had begun to peak around the time Wun went public. The end of the world, plus Martians: given that, what was impossible? What was even unlikely? And where did that leave the standard arguments in favor of propriety, patience, virtue, and not rocking the boat?
~ Robert Charles Wilson
A species that runs into sustainability limits before it stabilizes its population is probably doomed. Massive starvation, failed technology, and a planet so depleted from the first bloom of civilization that it lacks the means to rebuild.
~ Robert Charles Wilson
Chaos theory is the impossibility of a closed system remaining stable. This town is doomed. There's nobody at the controls Ã¢â'¬Â¦
~ Robert Kirkman
Out last chance is a cat's magic sight. We are doomed.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
J. Edgar Hoover: When morals decline and good men do nothing, evil flourishes. A society unwilling to learn from past is doomed. We must never forget our history.
~ J. Edgar Hoover
When we as a nation, strive in vain to preserve the beauty of our national life, forgetting our biblical roots, we are doomed.
~ Richard Halverson
Life is neither static nor unchanging. With no individuality, there can be no change, no adaptation and, in an inherently changing world, any species unable to adapt is also doomed.
~ Jean M. Auel
My love for her seemed doomed, hopelessly unrequited. There should be songs for this, I thought, but if there were I didn't know them.
~ Jenny Offill
The only love that feels like love is the doomed kind. (Fun fact.)
~ Jenny Offill
The words 'lost civilization of Atlantis' are muttered. This is how many modern Europeans like to think of their earlier selves – peaceable, artistic, liberated and romantically doomed – a story that is half-Eden and half the Titanic. But it is almost all bull.
~ Andrew Marr
If we can make the correct diagnosis, the healing can begin. If we can't, both our personal health and our economy are doomed.
~ Andrew Weil
Whatever needs to be maintained through force is doomed.
~ Henry Miller
There is a long history of newspapers being doomed. They were doomed by radio. They were doomed by television. They were probably doomed by the telegraph way back when.
~ Bill Keller
though the subject rejects the notion of repeating it elsewhere later on, he sometimes discovers in himself a kind of diffusion of amorous desire; he then realises he is doomed to wander until he dies, from love
~ Roland Barthes