137 Quotes About Doom

If I have not challenged you to something better, I have doomed you to something worse.

И все по-ясно виждам, че нашият свят ще загине от алчността си.

If the doom of failure stifles some time the path of our life, it can pin us down like downtrodden aliens, while, meanwhile, the world around is erupting in joy and contentment. Let's go back then to the nuts and bolts and consult the core of our inner self. ("The grass was greener over there")

How foolish to believe we are more powerful than the sea or the sky.

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.

Hope is the great deceiver. Hope is the piper who leads us sleepy to our slaughter.

I consider this is really the heart of England,’ said Clifford to Connie, as he sat there in the dim February sunshine.‘Do you?’ she said, seating herself in her blue knitted dress, on a stump by the path.‘I do! this is the old England, the heart of it; and I intend to keep it intact.’‘Oh yes!’ said Connie. But, as she said it she heard the eleven-o’clock hooters at Stacks Gate colliery. Clifford was too used to the sound to notice.

To those who have resigned themselves to the sorry belief that they are forever held captive to the currents of life, I would suggest that they take some time to learn what the oars in their boat are for.

While the light remains,' said Carde, speaking slowly in his high deliberate voice, 'only do not forsake the joy of life. If you shall have given all your kisses, you will give too few. And as leaves fall from withered wreaths which you may see spread upon the cups and floating there, so for us, who now as lovers hope for so much, perhaps tomorrow's day will close the doom.