Doom Quotes
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![Ernest Hemingway](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1654446435i/1455._UX200_CR0,25,200,200_.jpg)
“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.”
― A Farewell to Arms
― A Farewell to Arms
![Terry Pratchett](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1235562205i/1654._UX200_CR0,38,200,200_.jpg)
“Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil... prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no one seemed to have thought about the double-barrel shotgun. Eat leaden death, demon...”
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![Jodi Picoult](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1657141143i/7128._UX200_CR0,33,200,200_.jpg)
“Do you know how sometimes - when you are riding your bike and you start skidding across sand, or when you miss a step and start tumbling down the stairs - you have those long, long seconds to know that you are going to be hurt, and badly?”
― My Sister’s Keeper
― My Sister’s Keeper
![George Eliot](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1596202587i/173._UX200_CR0,2,200,200_.jpg)
“No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.”
― Daniel Deronda
― Daniel Deronda
![Thomas Harris](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1602363825i/12455._UY200_CR17,0,200,200_.jpg)
“God's creatures who cried themselves to sleep stirred to cry again.”
― The Silence of the Lambs
― The Silence of the Lambs
![Leigh Bardugo](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1534446099i/4575289._UX200_CR0,77,200,200_.jpg)
“Eat, Your Highness. "
"Everything tastes like doom, " he whispered.
"Then add salt.”
― King of Scars
"Everything tastes like doom, " he whispered.
"Then add salt.”
― King of Scars
![Erik Pevernagie](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1629325665i/14170911._UX200_CR0,18,200,200_.jpg)
“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")”
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![Henry Miller](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1511445828i/147._UY200_CR77,0,200,200_.jpg)
“For a hundred years or more the world, our world, has been dying. And not one man, in these last hundred years or so, has been crazy enough to put a bomb up the asshole of creation and set it off. The world is rotting away, dying piecemeal. But it needs the coup de grace, it needs to be blown to smithereens. Not one of us is intact, and yet we have in us all the continents and the seas between the continents and the birds of the air. We are going to put it down ― the evolution of this world which has died but which has not been buried.”
― Tropic of Cancer
― Tropic of Cancer
![H.P. Lovecraft](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1299165714i/9494._UX200_CR0,32,200,200_.jpg)
“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”
― The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath
- Through the Gates of the Silver Key”
― The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath
![Antoine de Saint-Exupéry](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1330853515i/1020792._UX200_CR0,11,200,200_.jpg)
“No destiny attacks us from outside. But, within him, man bears his fate and there comes a moment when he knows himself vulnerable; and then, as in a vertigo, blunder upon blunder lures him.”
― Night Flight
― Night Flight
![Donna Tartt](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1695551006i/8719._UX200_CR0,5,200,200_.jpg)
“But does it make any sense at all to know that it ends badly for all of us, even the happiest of us, and that we all lose everything that matters in the end-and yet to know as well, despite all this, as cruelly as the game is stacked, that it's possible to play it with a kind of joy?
To try to make some meaning out of all this seems unbelievably quaint. Maybe I only see a pattern because I've been staring too long. But then again, to paraphrase Boris, maybe I see a pattern because it's there.”
― The Goldfinch
To try to make some meaning out of all this seems unbelievably quaint. Maybe I only see a pattern because I've been staring too long. But then again, to paraphrase Boris, maybe I see a pattern because it's there.”
― The Goldfinch
![J.R.R. Tolkien](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1648968349i/656983._UX200_CR0,44,200,200_.jpg)
“Now when Túrin learnt from Finduilas of what had passed, he was wrathful, and he said to Gwindor: 'In love I hold you for your rescue and sake-keeping. But now you have done ill to me, friend, to betray my right name, and call my doom upon me, from which I would lie hid.'
But Gwindor answered: 'The doom lies in yourself, not in your name.”
― The Children of Húrin
But Gwindor answered: 'The doom lies in yourself, not in your name.”
― The Children of Húrin
![Brent Weeks](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1583875279i/1370283._UX200_CR0,50,200,200_.jpg)
“Hope is the great deceiver. Hope is the piper who leads us sleepy to our slaughter.”
― The Broken Eye
― The Broken Eye
![J.R.R. Tolkien](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1648968349i/656983._UX200_CR0,44,200,200_.jpg)
“He knew that all the hazards and perils were now drawing together to a point: the next day would be a day of doom, the day of final effort or disaster, the last gasp.”
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![Antoine de Saint-Exupéry](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1330853515i/1020792._UX200_CR0,11,200,200_.jpg)
“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.”
― Night Flight
― Night Flight
![Alfred Tennyson](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1454788521i/13638502.jpg)
“She saw the snowy poles of moonless Mars, That marvellous round of milky light Below Orion, and those double stars Whereof the one more bright
Is circled by the other”
― Tennyson's Poetry
Is circled by the other”
― Tennyson's Poetry
![Toba Beta](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1709205708i/3336353._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“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.”
― My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
But if we choose to ignore it, then we'll be doomed to repeat it.”
― My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
![Jane Washington](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1612824099i/7256031._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“I think I need to add a sensor to her door,” Elijah added, striding off toward the fitness centre. They were already late for their scheduled practice time, so
Gabriel followed with an agitated snap to each step. “That sounds like getting involved.”
“Not if I hook it up to Oscar’s phone.”
“That sounds downright danger—actually, that’s brilliant.”
“I know.”
“He’ll be so annoyed, and you know what happens when he gets annoyed.”
“I know.”
― Plier
Gabriel followed with an agitated snap to each step. “That sounds like getting involved.”
“Not if I hook it up to Oscar’s phone.”
“That sounds downright danger—actually, that’s brilliant.”
“I know.”
“He’ll be so annoyed, and you know what happens when he gets annoyed.”
“I know.”
― Plier
![Ken Liu](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1400610835i/2917920._UX200_CR0,30,200,200_.jpg)
“The gathering of knowledge in the face of our certain doom kept us sane and gave us the drive to go on, step after step, fight after fight.”
― Star Wars: The Legends of Luke Skywalker
― Star Wars: The Legends of Luke Skywalker
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