Doom Quotes - Page 11

• I certainly never believed, more or less, in the "essential doctrines" of Christianity, which represent God as the predestinator of men to sin and perdition, and Christ as their rescuer from that doom. I never was more or less behuiled by the trickery of language by which the perdition of man is made out to be justice, and his redemption to be mercy.

  Harriet Martineau

  Men, Justice, Atheism

  Harriet Martineau (2006). “Autobiography”, p.60, Broadview Press

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• I embrace the purpose of God and the doom assigned.

  Alfred the Great

  Destiny, Purpose, Embrace

  'Maud' (1855) pt. 3, sect. 6, st. 5

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• For Scotland has a double dose of the poison called heredity; the sense of blood in the aristocrat, the sense of doom in the Calvinist.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Blood, Scotland, Poison

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• With their endless vacations and pint-sized workweeks, Europe can't produce enough of anything - including more Europeans - to save themselves from doom. So the French and Germans have only one realistic strategy when it comes to revitalizing their comatose economies: Wait for the U.S. economy to rise high enough to float their petits bateaux.

  Denis Boyles

  Vacation, Europe, Waiting

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• These are clearly the end times, and now we understand why the prophets warned us about the Trump of Doom.

  Michael R. Burch

  Prophet, Ends, Trump

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• Since the State thrives on what it expropriates, the general decline in production that it induces by its avarice foretells its own doom. Its source of income dries up. Thus, in pulling Society down it pulls itself down. Its ultimate collapse is usually occasioned by a disastrous war, but preceding that event is a history of increasing and discouraging levies on the marketplace, causing a decline in the aspirations, hopes, and self-esteem of its victims.

  Frank Chodorov

  War, Self Esteem, Events

  Frank Chodorov (2007). “Rise and Fall of Society”, p.150, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• Armed Soldier, terrible as Death, relentless as Doom; doing God's judgement on the Enemies of God. It is a phenomenon not of joyful nature; no, but of awful, to be looked at with pious terror and awe.

  Thomas Carlyle

  History, Judgement, Soldier

  Thomas Carlyle (1871). “Works”, p.144

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• I feel that we have, as Mexicans, two things: one, a natural distrust of institutions. I hate organised religion, I hate organised politics, I hate the idea of the military and the police. Because we grew up distrusting all these sacred institutions, the only thing you have left is a vague, national sense of impending doom. Why do we drink and how are we so merry? Because we know that pretty soon, our time's up. There is a sense of fatality that makes us pretty chirpy people. You try to live. The only reason that dying is important is that it gives life sense.

  Guillermo del Toro

  Hate, Military, People

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• It is fateful and ironic how the lie we need in order to live dooms us to a life that is never really ours.

  Ernest Becker

  Lying, Order, Ironic

  Ernest Becker (2007). “The Denial of Death”, p.56, Simon and Schuster

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• Tis you, alone, can save, or give my doom.

  Ovid

  Giving

  Ovid (1872). “Ovid: The Metamorphoses. Book I-IX”, p.287

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• A traumatic event doesn't doom us to suffer indefinitely. Instead, we can use it as a springboard to unleash our best qualities and lead happier lives.

  Jane McGonigal

  Motivation, Inspiration, Suffering

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• This is the problem with the way you educate your children. You don't want your young ones drawing their own conclusions. You want them to come to the same conclusions that you came to. Thus you doom them to repeat the mistakes to which your own conclusions led you.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Children, Mistake, Drawing

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• Under the strain of this continually impending doom and by the sleeplessness to which I now condemned myself, ay, even beyond what I had thought possible to man, I became, in my own person, a creature eaten up and emptied by fever, languidly weak both in body and mind, and solely occupied by one thought: the horror of my other self.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Men, Self, Mind

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2010). “Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde”, p.118, Bibliolis Books

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• Servile labour disappeared because it could not stand the competition of free labour; its un-profitability sealed its doom in the market economy.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Competition, Economy, Profitability

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• I'd bet a million dollars on DOOM against Lil' Wayne

  Mos Def

  Dollars, Wayne, Millions

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• The city guardsmen were like the keres, doom-bringers of merciless vengeance.

  Janet Morris

  Cities, Vengeance

  Janet Morris, Chris Morris (2010). “The Sacred Band”, p.240, Paradise Publishing

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• In the '90s it was irrational exuberance. Now it may be irrational doom and gloom.

  Robert Reich

  Doom And Gloom, May, Irrational

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• Manufacture dooms in your head and you will go mad. Reality is incontravertible. Also, it will not be anticipated.

  M. John Harrison

  Reality, Mad

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• Crisis is the path to happiness. Decay and disintegration do not spell doom, but ascent and beginning. The powerful forces of a new creation operate in the hush beyond the noise of the day.

  Joseph Goebbels

  Powerful, Ascent, Noise

  Joseph Goebbels (1987). “Michael: a novel”, Amok Pr

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• Despite all the doom and gloom that constantly assaults our senses, there is a way for us to ransom our lives and reclaim our futures: it consists in turning away from the world to recognize what in life makes us truly happy. For each of us, what that is will be different. But once we obtain this inner knowledge, we will possess the ability to transform our outer world. "You can live a lifetime and, at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself," the pilot and writer Beryl Markham reminds us. We cannot let this continue to occur.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Doom And Gloom, People, Perspective

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• There is the extreme of hopelessness and the inevitability of doom, a deep despair that comes from the sense that our industrial, consuming society is jeopardizing the planet.

  Sam Keen

  Despair, Hopelessness, Planets

  Source: www.scottlondon.com

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• And when that bad news washes over you and that pain sponges in, I just hope you feel like you've always got two choices.  One, you can swirl and twirl and gloom and doom forever.  Or two, you can grieve, and then face the future with newly sober eyes.

  Neil Pasricha

  Pain, Eye, Grieving

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• The music that I write is often not necessarily full of doom and gloom. You'll notice in most of the darkest songs, the music is actually pretty peaceful and lulling.

  Andrew Bird

  Song, Writing, Doom And Gloom

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Here's what I say: We will ignore the cult of doom and gloom and embrace the cause of zoom and boom. We will laugh at the stupidity of evil and hate, and summon the brilliance of praise and create. . . Life is crazily in love with us-wildly and innocently in love with us. The universe always gives us exactly what we need, exactly when we need it.

  Rob Brezsny

  Hate, Doom And Gloom, Evil

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• What a fool is he who locks his door to keep out spirits, who has in his own bosom a spirit he dares not meet alone; whose voice, smothered far down, and piled over with mountains of earthliness, is yet like the forewarning trumpet of doom!

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Doors, Voice, Mountain

  Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Beecher STOWE (2016). “Collected Works (Complete and Illustrated Editions: Uncle Tom's Cabin, Queer Little Folks, The Chimney-Corner, ...)”, p.387, Harriet Beecher Stowe

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