137 Quotes About Doom

We are always immeasurably bigger than the little person we’ve too often doomed ourselves to be.

That art gives charm to terrible things is perhaps its glory, perhaps its curse. Art is a doom.

The world has its own ways of treating us like what we will never be, but want to be. It relinquishes its grip on our souls while lulling us with the songs of freedom and conquest of beauty. It magnifies every tiny bit of something useless over an unfathomable presence of humanity. And we all waste the whole of our lives standing in queue for gaining its attention to be abdicated as if we never existed in the eyes of our fellow men.

If I can’t be your love, then let me be a simple brooch so I may rest a while against your chest. If I can’t be your love, then let me be a forgotten coin so I may rest a while against your thigh. If I can’t be your love, then let me be an unlit cigarette so I may rest a while in between your lips. If I can’t be your love, then let me at least remain in these words so I may rest a while in your thoughts.

I ask, ‘Is the cup half-empty or half-full?’ And when I ask that question, I am amazed at how many people have no cup.

No death, no doom, no anguish can arouse the surpassing despair which flows from a loss of identity.- Through the Gates of the Silver Key

He who mocked and laughed at correction should blame nobody for his shame and doom.

...but in the next moment I cursed myself for being so great a fool as to dream of hope at all.

But lurking behind every summer was a fall just waiting to happen.