Doom Quotes

Prehistory of mankind is way too horrible to be remembered.But if we choose to ignore it, then we'll be doomed to repeat it.

~ Toba Beta

No death, no doom, no anguish can arouse the surpassing despair which flows from a loss of ide

~ H.p. Lovecraft

Ignorance and weakness is not an impediment to survival. Arrogance is.

~ Cixin Liu

All you can do is involve yourself totally in your own life, your own moment, Lonzi said. And when we feel pessimism crouching on our shoulders like a stinking vulture, he said, we banish it, we smother it with optimism. We want, and our want kills doom.

~ Rachel Kushner

I must indeed abide the Doom of Men whether I will or nill: the loss and the silence. But I say to you, King of the Numenoreans, not till now have I understood the tale of your people and their fall. As wicked fools I scorned them, but I pity them at last. For if this is indeed, as the Elves say, the gift of the One to Men, it is bitter to receive.

~ J.r.r. Tolkien

This was especially true in some millennialist sects that filled their literature with paintings of Armageddon. Pictures of terrified people running away from some formless fiery doom that burned their world down behind them, while smug worshipers—of the correct religion, of course—watched from safety as God got with the smiting.

~ James S.a. Corey

Cathy, don't look so defeated. She was only trying to put us downagain.Maybe nothing did work out right for her, but that doesn't mean we aredoomed. Let's go forth tomorrow with no great expectations of findingperfection. Then, expecting only a small share of happiness, we won'tbe disappointed.

~ V.c. Andrews

Another flaw of the system is the fact that various danger fronts often require very different firmaments. As a logical superstructure is built upon each, there follow clashes of incommensurable modes of feeling and thought. Then despair can enter through the rifts. In such cases, a person may be obsessed with destructive joy, dislodging the whole artificial apparatus of his life and starting with rapturous horror to make a clean sweep of it. The horror stems from the loss of all sheltering values, the rapture from his by now ruthless identification and harmony with our nature’s deepest secret, the biological unsoundness, the enduring disposition for doom.

~ Peter Wessel Zapffe

The light was everywhere. He would tell me later I looked like an angel... but he just looked like the same devil to me

~ Quil Carter

She tried to focus on the element of riddle or at least puzzle contained in the letter and ignore the sense of doom that was sweeping through her like clouds rolling to the shore over open water.


~ Sara Sheridan

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

~ Lemony Snicket

A single radio post still heard him. The only link between him and the world was a wave of music, a minor modulation. Not a lament, no cry, yet purest of sounds that ever spoke despair.

~ Antoine De Saint-Exupéry

And each ripple builds and builds into the tidal wave of anarchy to which we are now doomed.

~ Brian Michael Bendis

If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.

~ Ernest Hemingway

Hawks with broken wings; lions with broken paws; men with broken hearts, they all have one thing in common: they're all as sure to die as those unbroken.

~ Bruce Crown

I think the only way to properly face doom is to be on time.

~ Jennifer Dubois

Why not simply surrender to one’s doom, since one was so clearly, so spectacularly, doomed?

~ Paul Russell

Abandon all nations, the planet drifts to random insect doom.

~ William S. Burroughs