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Quotes About Doomed

He believed in the people on the ship, believed they could steer clear of what was wrong. That was the evil these days laid bare, surely—this sustained, precious belief that everyone could see it all clearly, the hope that someone would come to stop it, that there would be people who could stop it, doomed them instead.
~ Sarah Blake
Many a spear dawn-cold to the touch will be taken down and waved on high; the swept harp won't waken warriors, but the raven winging darkly over the doomed will have news, tidings for the eagle of how he hoked and ate, how the wolf and he made short work of the dead.
~ Seamus Heaney
Your Honour, unless your Honour, without a moment's loss of time, makes sail for the nearest shore, this is a doomed ship, and her name is the Coffin!
~ Charles Dickens
It is an awful, just sickening feeling, I discovered, to live with somebody, to exist in the midst of sharing a life, only to realize it is utterly doomed.
~ Augusten Burroughs
It is an awful, just sickening feeling, I discovered, to live with somebody, to exist in the midst of sharing a life, only to realize it is utterly doomed. It was botulism of the soul. I'd had such ambition for building a life together, because I wanted that strength of character and security. But I had overlooked the most important thing: he wasn't right for me. I wasn't right for him. Merely wanting us to be right and good together wasn't enough.
~ Augusten Burroughs
I hate having feelings. Why does sobriety have to come with feelings? One minute I feel excited, the next I feel terrified. One minute I feel free and the next I feel doomed. I think about lobotomies. Are they like nose jobs, can you just go and have one? Or do you need a doctor's recommendation?
~ Augusten Burroughs
When the law no longer protects you from the corrupt, but protects the corrupt from you – you know your nation is doomed.
~ Ayn Rand
All the condylarths were doomed to extinction ten million years before the age of mankind. But for now they were in their pomp, top predators of the world forest.
~ Stephen Baxter
He was sorry for himself as well, for he was doomed to find life and identity in death letters.
~ Mahesh Poudyal, Hulaki
ThunderClan is doomed!" "There will be a cat who burns like fire!" "Trust no one, not even your Clanmates. Too many hearts are fickle." "Beware the striped face and snapping teeth!
~ Erin Hunter
When I began to realize how often we quarrelled, how often I picked on her with nervous irritation, I became aware that our love was doomed: love had turned into a love-affair with a beginning and an end.
~ Graham Greene
Ah, said a voice from close by. Some fellow mortals . . . What a relief! I thought I was doomed to wander about the forest for the rest of my days. I have very little sense of direction, I'm afraid.
~ Mary Balogh
Money is the barometer of a society's virtue. When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion...when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice—you may know that your society is doomed.
~ Ayn Rand
We are doomed Whatever days are left to us, we shall spend them alone. And we have heard of the corruption of solitude. We have torn ourselves from the truth which is our brother men, and there is no road back for us. and no redemption. We know these things, but we do not care. We care for nothing on earth. We are tired.
~ Ayn Rand
When you see that in order to produce, you need to ask permission from men who produce nothing - When you see the money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors - When you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don't protect you against them, but protect them against you - When you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming self-sacrifice - You may know that your society is doomed Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged 1957
~ Ayn Rand
Away, down below now, single file on the path, comes a woman with four girls in tow, all of them in shirtwaist dresses. Seen from above this way they are pale, doomed blossoms, bound to appeal to your sympathies. Be careful. Later on you'll have to decide what sympathy they deserve.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
sublimation, a primitive part of her mind trying to propitiate her guilt over having failed to protect Nason. Over having inadvertently doomed her. Trauma never went away. You could try to block it, or bury it, or bludgeon it into submission. But something with that much power couldn't really be contained. The best you could hope for was a way to channel it.
~ Barry Eisler
thus, in a sense, we are all doomed. even if we stay away from black holes
~ Stephen W. Hawking
Young lovers are always doomed.
~ Lucrezia Borgia
As a child I made a pact with my mother. I agreed that we were doomed, that she and I abided together in a cocoon of melancholy.
~ Darcey Steinke
Historians are left forever chasing shadows, painfully aware of their inability ever to reconstruct a dead world in its completeness however thorough or revealing their documentation. We are doomed to be forever hailing someone who has just gone around the corner and out of earshot.
~ Simon Schama
I'm going, she said. I love you but you're crazy, you're doomed.
~ Charles Bukowski
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~ Meg Gardiner
He looked like an actor who'd star in some movie about a doomed love affair between an heiress and a park ranger. I thought it was probably inappropriate to fling myself against him and bury my nose in his chest.
~ Sue Grafton