Doom Quotes - Page 8

• All my laurels you have riven away, and my roses; yet in spite of you, there is one crown I bear away with me... One thing without stain, unspotted from the world, in spite of doom mine own! And that is... my white plume.

  Edmond Rostand

  White, Rose, Crowns

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• Of course, it is likely enough, my friends,' he said slowly, 'likely enough that we are going to our doom: the last march of the Ents. But if we stayed home and did nothing, doom would find us anyway, sooner or later. That thought has long been growing in our hearts; and that is why we are marching now. It was not a hasty resolve. Now at least the last march of the Ents may be worth a song.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Song, Home, Heart

  J.R.R. Tolkien (1973). “The Lord of the Rings part two the Two Towers”

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• Forget the noose. Forget the Iron Maiden. Forget the electric chair or the guillotine. The mind was mankind's most painful torture chamber, the blessed liberty to cogitate offering either doom or salvation, depending on one's disposition.

  Tiffanie DeBartolo

  Blessed, Offering, Iron

  Tiffanie DeBartolo (2005). “How to Kill a Rock Star”, p.261, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• However baby man may brag of his science and skill, and however much, in a flattering future, that science and skill may augment; yet for ever and for ever, to the crack of doom, the sea will insult and murder him, and pulverize the stateliest, stiffest frigate he can make; nevertheless, by the continual repetition of these very impressions, man has lost that sense of the full awfulness of the sea which aboriginally belongs to it.

  Herman Melville

  Baby, Men, Sea

  Herman Melville (2016). “Moby Dick (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.190, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

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• An Overall Feeling of Doom that One Cannot Ever Escape no Matter What One Does

  Daniel Handler

  Feelings, Doe, Matter

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• We rarely get to prepare ourselves in meadows or on graveled walks; we do it on short notice in places without windows, hospital corridors, rooms like this lounge with its cracked plastic sofa and Cinzano ashtrays, where the cafe curtains cover blank concrete. In rooms like this, with so little time, we prepare our gestures, get them by heart so we can do them when we're frightened in the face of Doom.

  Thomas Harris

  Heart, Short Notice, Cafes

  Thomas Harris (2009). “The Silence of the Lambs”, p.159, Macmillan

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• But there is a fatality, a feeling so irresistible and inevitable that it has the force of doom, which almost invariably compels human beings to linger around and haunt, ghost-like, the spot where some great and marked event has given the colour to their lifetime; and, still the more irresistibly, the darker the tinge that saddens it.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Feelings, Events, Ghost

  The Scarlet Letter ch. 5 (1850)

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• Poverty is a bitter thing; but it is not as bitter as the existence of restless vacuity and physical, moral, and intellectual flabbiness, to which those doom themselves who elect to spend all their years in that vainest of all vain pursuits-the pursuit of mere pleasure as a sufficient end in itself.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Years, Intellectual, Poverty

  Theodore Roosevelt (1910). “Works: The strenuous life”

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• Elysium is as far as to
  The very nearest room,
  If in that room a friend await
  Felicity of doom.

  Emily Dickinson

  Friendship, Happiness, Elysium

  Emily Dickinson (2016). “The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.24, First Avenue Editions

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• The field of doom bears death as its harvest.

  Aeschylus

  Death, War, Fields

  Aeschylus (2013). “Aeschylus I: The Persians, The Seven Against Thebes, The Suppliant Maidens, Prometheus Bound”, p.92, University of Chicago Press

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• Journalism, spooked by rumors of its own obsolescence, has stopped believing in itself. Groans of doom alternate with panicked happy talk.

  Maureen Dowd

  Believe, Rumor, Journalism

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• One thing that Barack Obama promised, one thing that we all know we must do is evolve our industry and our technology to being green and sustainable. We need to move away from fossil fuels and nuclear power, both of which I think spell doom for human society.

  Ani DiFranco

  Moving, Technology, Thinking

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• If I have a gig in the evening, I get 'the doom' at about 5 P.M., when I think I'm getting flu.

  Nina Conti

  Thinking, Flu, Gigs

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• Claudia Rankine's Citizen comes at you like doom. It's the best note in the wrong song that is America. Its various realities-'mistaken' identity, social racism, the whole fabric of urban and suburban life-are almost too much to bear, but you bear them, because it's the truth. Citizen is Rankine's Spoon River Anthology, an epic as large and frightening and beautiful as the country and various emotional states that produced it.

  Hilton Als

  Beautiful, Country, Song

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• He finds his fellow guilty of a skin
  Not color'd like his own, and having pow'r
  T' enforce the wrong, for such a worthy cause
  Dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey.

  William Cowper

  Color, Skins, Slavery

  William Cowper (1857). “The Poetical Works of William Cowper, Esq: Of the Inner Temple”, p.198

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• Pending catastrophe is not an easy notion to entertain, much less sustain. Americans, moreover, have a low tolerance for doom and gloom. We are the nation of optimism, after all. We elect leaders who promise hope and change. We are the shining city on a hill. But what happens when the lights go out?

  Kathleen Parker

  Money, Doom And Gloom, Light

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• As the original 'Mary Poppins' budget of five million dollars continued to grow, I never saw a sad face around the entire Studio. And this made me nervous. I knew the picture would have to gross 10 million dollars for us to break even. But still there was no negative head-shaking. No prophets of doom. Even Roy was happy. He didn't even ask me to show the unfinished picture to a banker. The horrible thought struck me - suppose the staff had finally conceded that I knew what I was doing.

  Walt Disney

  Break Even, Bankers, Negative

  "The Walt Disney Story". Documentary, April 8, 1973.

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• The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates.

  Margaret Mead

  Alternatives, Failing, Pessimism

  Margaret Mead (1970). “Culture and Commitment”

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• Nothing can doom man but the belief in doom, for this prevents the movement of return.

  Martin Buber

  Men, Negativity, Return

  Martin Buber (2013). “I and Thou”, p.145, eBookIt.com

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• There is nothing rarer than a man who can be trusted never to throw away happiness, however eagerly he sometimes grasps it. In history we are as frequently interested in our own doom.

  Rebecca West

  Men, Sometimes, Trusted

  Rebecca West (2010). “Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia”, p.818, Open Road Media

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• The prophets of doom, in my experience, are generally ignored and usually right.

  Fay Weldon

  Ignored, Pessimism, Prophet

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• Genius! thou gift of Heav'n! thou Light divine!
  Amid what dangers art thou doom'd to shine!
  Oft will the body's weakness check thy force,
  Oft damp thy Vigour, and impede thy course;
  And trembling nerves compel thee to restrain
  Thy noble efforts, to contend with pain;
  Or Want (sad guest!) will in thy presence come,
  And breathe around her melancholy gloom:
  To Life's low cares will thy proud thought confine,
  And make her sufferings, her impatience, thine.

  George Crabbe

  Art, Pain, Light

  George Crabbe (1812). “Tales”, p.191

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• Here I stand, hobbled in a sack of doom, determined to tear out of it, knowing that I will.

  Kate Simon

  Women, Home, Knowing

  Kate Simon (1986). “A Wider World: Portraits in Adolescence”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• On the four aces doom'd to roll.

  Charles Churchill

  Four, Aces

  Charles Churchill, George Gilfillan (1855). “The poetical works of Charles Churchill: with memoir, critical dissertation, and explanatory notes / by the Rev. George Gilfillan”, p.102

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• Cooking saved my life! Sure, there were some miserable moments, but that was sort of the point, to find something challenging and consuming enough to take a place in the center of my life into which was creeping a horrible feeling of stasis and the doom of mediocrity.

  Julie Powell

  Food, Challenges, Cooking

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