Doom Quotes

• No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.

  George Eliot

  Love, Evil, Effort

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.3402, Delphi Classics

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• It is the still, small voice that the soul heeds, not the deafening blasts of doom.

  William Dean Howells

  Fate, Voice, Soul

  William Dean Howells (2015). “The March Family Trilogy”, p.509, Simon and Schuster

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  Everything is more beautiful because we're doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.

  Homer

  Beautiful, Rage From The Iliad, Chaos

  "Troy". www.imdb.com. 2004.

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• I agree to, or rather aspire to, my doom.

  Pierre Corneille

  Agreement, Agree, Aspire

  "Polyeucte". Book by Pierre Corneille, act IV, scene II, 1642.

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• Not all is doom and gloom. We are beginning to understand the natural world and are gaining a reverence for life - all life.

  Roger Tory Peterson

  Life, Science, Doom And Gloom

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• The doom of a nation can be averted only by a storm of flowing passion, but only those who are passionate themselves can arouse passion in others.

  Adolf Hitler

  Military, Passion, Fate

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• How shall I speak of Doom, and ours in special, But as of something altogether common?

  Donald Justice

  Fate, Special, Common

  Donald Justice (2009). “Collected Poems”, p.25, Knopf

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• The best that we can do is to be kindly and helpful toward our friends and fellow passengers who are clinging to the same speck of dirt while we are drifting side by side to our common doom.

  Clarence Darrow

  Fate, Dirt, Sides

  Clarence Darrow (2015). “The Story of My Life”, p.411, Lulu.com

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• Alas, regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come nor care beyond today.

  Thomas Gray

  Children, Parenting, Play

  'Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College' (1747) l. 51

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• Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil... prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no one seemed to have thought about the double-barrel shotgun. Eat leaden death, demon...

  Terry Pratchett

  Prayer, Fate, Evil

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I am convinced the prophets of doom have to be taken seriously.

  Maurice Strong

  Taken, Fate, Prophet

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• Life is too short to spend your precious time trying to convince the person who wants to live in gloom and doom otherwise.

  Zig Ziglar

  Life Is Too Short, Trying, Want

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Apr 26, 2014

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• And I like the look on people's faces when I say I'm doing this movie called Pride and Prejudice and they kind of smile, and then I say I'm in a movie called Doom and they kind of do a double take and try and put the two things together. And they never quite manage to.

  Rosamund Pike

  Smile, Fate, Pride

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• Where do murderers go, man! Who's to doom, when the judge himself is dragged to the bar?

  Herman Melville

  Fate, Men, Judging

  Herman Melville (2016). “Moby Dick (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.370, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

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• If we were to hit the level that Metallica or somebody like that hit, we'd have had a hard time dealing with it. I think it would have been our doom. It's hard for anybody at that level.

  Gerald Caiafa

  Fate, Hard Times, Thinking

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• Instead of taking environmentalism away from the left, conservatives condemn it as a counsel of doom.

  Christopher Lasch

  Fate, Left, Environmentalism

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• So, if anatomy is destiny then testosterone is doom.

  Al Goldstein

  Fate, Destiny, Testosterone

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• God forbid you be an ugly girl, 'course too pretty is also your doom, 'cause everyone harbors a secret hatred for the prettiest girl in the room.

  Ani DiFranco

  Girl, Doom And Gloom, Hatred

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• A leader who confines his role to his people's experience dooms himself to stagnation; a leader who outstrips his people's experience runs the risk of not being understood.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Leadership, Running, People

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• A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Change, Uplifting, Spiritual

  Beyond Vietnam -- A Time to Break Silence, Delivered 4 April 1967, Riverside Church, New York City

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• Life is too short to spend your precious time trying to convince a person who wants to live in gloom and doom otherwise. Give lifting that person your best shot, but don't hang around long enough for his/her bad attitude to pull you down. Instead, surround yourself with optimistic people.

  Zig Ziglar

  Attitude, Life Is Too Short, Optimistic

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• I'm not a doom-and-gloom person. But I think there is a difference between transcendence and denial, and much of the Western world is in major denial today.

  Marianne Williamson

  Thinking, Doom And Gloom, Differences

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• I like some shooters, and I respect games like Doom, but I don't think it's right for me

  Sid Meier

  Fate, Thinking, Games

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• I guess you can stay sort of true to the story; you don't have to artificially bring the character back from whatever doom you've designed for them, you can tell the story, I suppose, honestly.

  Garth Ennis

  Character, Fate, Stories

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• Man is a fire-stealing animal, and we can't help building machines and machine intelligences, even if, from time to time, we use them not only to outsmart ourselves but to bring us right up to the doorstep of Doom.

  Richard Dooling

  Fate, Animal, Men

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