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Quotes About Damned

There were times when the fact of impending death seemed as palpable as the bed they lay on, and they would cling together with a sort of despairing sensuality, like a damned soul grasping at his last morsel of pleasure when the clock is within five minutes of striking.
~ George Orwell
You're Beau Wyndham! Well, I'll be damned!' 'The prospect,' said Sir Richard, bored, 'leaves me unmoved
~ Georgette Heyer
I think time and time again, in reality, psychological notions and economic notions interplay, and the man who doesn't understand both is a damned fool.
~ Charlie Munger
Everything personal is business with us." She brushed the dust from his cheek against her coat. "And all of our damned business is personal.
~ Scott Lynch
Tact is for people with too much damned time on their hands.
~ Lois Greiman
I live at the end of some interminable corridor which the lucky damned can call hell but which the much unluckier atheists - and your mother heads up that bunch- must simply get used to calling home.
~ Mark Z. Danielewski
They sensed somehow that she lived in the prenumbral shadows between two worlds, just beyond the grasp of their power. That a woman that they had already damned, now had little left to lose, and could therefore be dangerous. So on the days that the radio played Ammu's songs, people avoided her, making little loops around her, because everybody agreed that it was best to just Let Her Be.
~ Arundhati Roy
But I still wonder how it was possible, in those graceless years of transition, long ago, that men did not see whither they were going, and went on, in blindness and cowardice, to their fate. I wonder, for it is hard for me to conceive how men who knew the word I, could give it up and not know what they lost. But such has been the story, for I have lived in the City of the damned, and I know what horror men permitted to be brought upon them.
~ Ayn Rand
If you kill what you love, you're damned.
~ Stephen King
We're damned if we do stay home and we're damned if we don't. We're damned because we conservative moms drive the Left and its feminist shills mad with our mere existence, our exercise of free will, our fierce belief in protecting our families from the Nanny State, our embrace of free-market principles, and our rejection of the perpetual victim/grievance mentality.
~ Ben Shapiro
They say we are creatures raised by God above the animals but any man that has lived knows that's damned lies.
~ Sebastian Barry
Last week, I suggested the candidates take up mushrooms. I'll be damned if Rick Perry didn't take me up on that.
~ Bill Maher
I am damned if I will spend my time listenin' to ungrammatical, repetitious, imbecilic nonsense without a challenge!
~ Mary Doria Russell
the lonely look down upon the hungry; the hungry look down upon the starving. The guilty blame the damaged. Those of doubtful righteousness speak of cannibals, the unquestionably vile, the sinners and the damned. It makes everyone feel much better.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
Oh, seek, my love, your newer way; I'll not be left in sorrow. So long as I have yesterday, Go take your damned tomorrow!
~ Dorothy Parker
It often occurs to me that we love most what makes us miserable. In my opinion the damned are damned because they enjoy being damned.
~ Patrick Kavanagh
love be damned now as love was damned when it first arrived.
~ Charles Bukowski
What shall I say to a faithless brother? The King of the Damned is a poor judge of Being.
~ Jordan B. Peterson
His chief delights were of a less public and philanthropic kind, requiring many explanations of sounds which seemed peculiar even amidst that babel of the damned. Among these sounds were frequent revolver-shots—surely not uncommon on a battlefield, but distinctly uncommon in an hospital. Dr. West's reanimated specimens were not meant for long existence or a large audience.
~ H.P. Lovecraft
This uncompromising attitude toward the performance of his murderous duties damned him in the eyes of the judges more than anything else, which was comprehensible, but in his own eyes it was precisely what justified him, as it had once silenced whatever conscience he might have had left.
~ Hannah Arendt
Cursed with conscience and damned with duty, because that's how we always reward the best of us.
~ Simon R. Green
The damned would have to remain on earth in perpetual doubt. Once
~ Simon Van Booy
H]e was damned if he was going to water down his arguments simply to satisfy the preference of the mob for dogma and ignorance.
~ Ben Elton
And that was what the Christians had been doing in their church, consecrating their wizards by making boys into black-clothed priests who would spread their filth further, and my son, my eldest son, was now a damned Christian priest and I hit him again.
~ Bernard Cornwell