Doomed Quotes - Page 9

• Whatever needs to be maintained through force is doomed.

  Henry Miller

  Fate, Needs, Literature

  Henry Miller (1941). “The Wisdom of the Heart”, p.87, New Directions Publishing

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• So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of the arts will go on; and if that system is to last for ever, then art is doomed, and will surely die; that is to say, civilization will die.

  William Morris

  Art, Mean, Civilization

  William Morris, May Morris (2012). “The Collected Works of William Morris: With Introductions by His Daughter May Morris”, p.172, Cambridge University Press

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• We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is.

  Iris Murdoch

  Time, Fate, Literature

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• April is the cruelest month, T.S. Eliot wrote, by which I think he meant (among other things) that springtime makes people crazy. We expect too much, the world burgeons with promises it can't keep, all passion is really a setup, and we're doomed to get our hearts broken yet again. I agree, and would further add: Who cares? Every spring I go out there anyway, around the bend, unconditionally. ... Come the end of the dark days, I am more than joyful. I'm nuts.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Crazy, Spring, Passion

  Barbara Kingsolver (2010). “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating”, p.43, Faber & Faber

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• I am doomed to remember a boy with a wrecked voice. Not because of his voice, or because he was the smallest person I ever knew, or even because he was the instrument of my mother's death, but because he is the reason I believe in God. I am a Christian because of Owen Meany.

  John Irving

  Christian, Mother, Believe

  FaceBook post by John Irving from Feb 06, 2014

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• Humanity seems doomed to do more evil than good. The greatest ideal on earth is human love.

  Wladyslaw Szpilman

  Evil, Holocaust, Humanity

  Wladyslaw Szpilman (2000). “The Pianist: The Extraordinary True Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-1945”, p.177, Picador

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• I've got news for Mr. Santayana: we're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Past, News, Alive

  "Bluebeard". Book by Kurt Vonnegut, p. 82, 1987.

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• From the window, above the clatter of pots and the slamming of cabinets, Francis was singing, as though it was the happiest song in the world: 'We are the little black sheep who have gone astray . . . Baa baa baa . . . Gentlemen songsters off on a spree . . . Doomed from here to eternity . . .

  Donna Tartt

  Song, Sheep, Gentleman

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• The precise moment at which a great belief is doomed is easily recognisable; it is the moment when its value begins to be called in question.

  Gustave Le Bon

  Nihilism, Belief, Moments

  "The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind".

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• We started shooting, and then Jodie found out she was pregnant. Forest broke it to me - he'd gone to work and heard it on the radio! It seemed like the movie was doomed. But, like these characters, there was a disregard for all the signs along the way.

  Dwight Yoakam

  Work, Pregnancy, Character

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• The church that is man-managed instead of God-governed is doomed to failure. A ministry that is college-trained but not Spirit-filled works no miracles.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  College, Men, Miracle

  Leonard Ravenhill (2004). “Why Revival Tarries”, p.100, Bethany House

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• I suppose I felt doomed to be an artist early on because of the way I drew all over the books that I needed for school, from ancient history to math. I was more interested in drawing in the margins than actually doing the work.

  Nancy Spero

  Book, School, Math

  "Art as a Continuum". Art21 Interview, art21.org.

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• To speak of ‘limits to growth’ under a capitalistic market economy is as meaningless as to speak of limits of warfare under a warrior society. The moral pieties, that are voiced today by many well-meaning environmentalists, are as naive as the moral pieties of multinationals are manipulative. Capitalism can no more be ‘persuaded’ to limit growth than a human being can be ‘persuaded’ to stop breathing. Attempts to ‘green’ capitalism, to make it ‘ecological’, are doomed by the very nature of the system as a system of endless growth.

  Murray Bookchin

  Nature, Warrior, Breathing

  "Remaking Society: Pathways to a Green Future". Book by Murray Bookchin, 1990.

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• Empires are doomed. They become more diffuse, more broke, demagogues rule, and so I was just pointing out some similarities between past empires and what's going on right now. They all have had to apply more and more harsh rhetoric of superiority and divine right to justify the building of hegemony.

  Dar Williams

  Past, Divine Right, Hegemony

  Source: progressive.org

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• The literary world is made up of little confederacies, each looking upon its own members as the lights of the universe; and considering all others as mere transient meteors, doomed to soon fall and be forgotten, while its own luminaries are to shine steadily into immortality.

  Washington Irving

  Fall, Writing, Light

  Washington Irving (1991). “Bracebridge Hall ; Tales of a Traveller ; The Alhambra”, p.467, Library of America

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• Literature is doomed if liberty of thought perishes.

  George Orwell

  Writing, Liberty, Literature

  1946 'The Prevention of Literature', in Polemic, Jan.

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• People who can't think of anything else but whether the person you love is indented or convex should be doomed not to think of anything else but that, and so miss the other ninety-five percent of life.

  Robert Towne

  Gay, Love Is, Thinking

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• I am more optimistic though, that this court will eventually conclude that the effort to eliminate arbitrariness while preserving fairness in the infliction of [death] is so plainly doomed to failure that is - and the death penalty - must be abandoned altogether. I may not live to see that day, but I have faith that eventually it will arrive.

  Harry A. Blackmun

  Optimistic, Effort, May

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• For the planet's sake, I hope we have bird flu or some other thing that will reduce the population, because otherwise we're doomed.

  Susan Blackmore

  Bird, Population, Flu

  "We've got all the space in the world" by Brendan O'Neill, www.theguardian.com. June 13, 2009.

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• When you enter a grove peopled with ancient trees, higher than the ordinary, and shutting out the sky with their thickly inter-twined branches, do not the stately shadows of the wood, the stillness of the place, and the awful gloom of this doomed cavern then strike you with the presence of a deity?

  Seneca the Younger

  Science, Sky, Tree

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• To be truly challenging, a voyage, like a life, must rest on a firm foundation of financial unrest. Otherwise, you are doomed to a routine traverse, the kind known to yachtsmen who play with their boats at sea 'cruising' it is called. Voyaging belongs to seamen, and to the wanderers of the world who cannot, or will not, fit in. If you are contemplating a voyage and you have the means, abandon the venture until your fortunes change. Only then will you know what the sea is all about.

  Sterling Hayden

  Mean, Sea, Play

  Sterling Hayden (2015). “Wanderer”, p.42, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• Christianity is the worst of the regressions that mankind can ever have undergone, and it's the Jew who, thanks to this diabolic invention, has thrown him back fifteen centuries. The only thing that would be still worse would be victory for the Jew through Bolshevism. If Bolshevism triumphed, mankind would lose the gift of laughter and joy. It would become merely a shapeless mass, doomed to grayness and despair.

  Adolf Hitler

  Laughter, Joy, Victory

  Adolf Hitler (1953). “Table talk, 1941-1944”

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• Pursue your goals with all your heart, might, mind and strength. You are doomed to failure if you pursue them in a vacillating manner

  Robert D. Hales

  Heart, Goal, Mind

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• If we nurture the dreams of children, the world will be blessed. If we destroy them, the world is doomed!

  Wess Stafford

  Dream, Children, Blessed

  Wess Stafford (2010). “Too Small to Ignore: Why the Least of These Matters Most”, p.36, WaterBrook

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• Memory runs along deep, fixed channels in the brain, like electricity along its conduits; only a cataclysm can make the electrons rear up in shock and slide over into another channel. The human mind seems doomed to believe, as simply as a rooster believes, that where we are now is the only possibility

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Running, Memories, Believe

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