doom

Link	Quote	Tags	Author
72a6ec1	God's creatures who cried themselves to sleep stirred to cry again.	sleep murder humanity darkness god god-s-creation hannibal never-ending psychopath the-silence-of-the-lambs doomed cycle doom serial-killer serial-killers crying punishment prison insanity horror mental-illness hell	Thomas Harris
d35fcbd	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.	fate destiny doom	Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
70cb99b	The doom lies in yourself, not in your name.	doom	J.R.R. Tolkien
ef8031f	No death, no doom, no anguish can arouse the surpassing despair which flows from a loss of identity. -	death identity identity-crisis doom despair	H.P. Lovecraft
fd427d6	Now when Turin 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.	fate doom	J.R.R. Tolkien
40f5f94	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.	doom flight	Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
3c64d58	Try persuading the world not to cut its throat for half a decade or more...and it'll begin to dawn on you that even your behavior's part of its plan.	doom	Malcolm Lowry
97e3315	"I guess if there's one thing I can say about the 21st century, it's that the 21st century is all flash and no substance... everything is digital, nothing but files of invisible electronic data on computers and mindless zombies on their cellular phones... it's sad how because of the digital age, society is ultimately doomed. Nothing in the digital age is real anymore, and you know, they say celluloid film and ray tube televisions and maybe even paper might become obsolete in this century? ...What's most annoying is that nobody cares, they've just learned to accept the digital age and get addicted to it... none of them are ever going to step up and say to the world, "you're all a bunch of sheep!" and even if they did say anything, I doubt anyone would listen... they're all too obsessed and attached to their cellular phones and overly big televisions and whatever other moronic things they've got these days... it almost makes me want an apocalypse to happen, to erase digital technology and force the world to start over again."	photography future books bleak cell-phones celluloid depressingly-honest super-8 camera digital paper doom apocalypse book film scary poison	Rebecca McNutt
8d79680	"Cathy, don't look so defeated. She was only trying to put us down again. Maybe nothing did work out right for her, but that doesn't mean we are doomed. Let's go forth tomorrow with no great expectations of finding perfection. Then, expecting only a small share of happiness, we won't be disappointed." If a little hill of happiness would satisfy Chris, good for him. But after all these years of striving, hoping, dreaming, longing-I wanted a mountain high! A hill wasn't enough. From this day forward, I vowed to myself, I was in control of my life. Not fate, not God, not even Chris was ever again going to tell me what to do, or dominate me in any way. From this day forward, I was my own person, to take what I would, when I would, and I would answer only to myself. I'd been kept prisoner, held captive by greed. I'd been betrayed, deceived, tied to, used, poisoned ... but all that was over now."	perfection fate defeat greed happiness decieved poisened used years-of-struggle towmorrow great-expectations defeated vow captive doomed wanting striving doom vows years dreaming wants put-downs expectations longing	V.C. Andrews
2319ccc	Cathy, don't look so defeated. She was only trying to put us down again. Maybe nothing did work out right for her, but that doesn't mean we are doomed. Let's go forth tomorrow with no great expectations of finding perfection. Then, expecting only a small share of happiness, we won't be disappointed.	perfection happiness disapointment facial-expressions put-down putting-people-down small-share towmorrow work-out doomed doom small put-downs expectations	V.C. Andrews
2d32942	Thunder and blood and night must usurp our parts, to complete and make up the catastrophe of this great piece.	fate doom	E.R. Eddison
cd7f133	"A week passed, and Jean Valjean had not taken a step in his room. He still remained in bed. The portress said to her husband:-"The good man upstairs yonder does not get up, he no longer eats, he will not last long. That man has his sorrows, that he has. You won't get it out of my head that his daughter has made a bad marriage." The porter replied, with the tone of marital sovereignty: "If he's rich, let him have a doctor. If he is not rich, let him go without. If he has no doctor he will die." "And if he has one?" "He will die," said the porter."	doom mortal dying	Victor Hugo
b05d5c1	I know people can be awful dooms for each other.	toxic-relationships the-black-prince toxic-people iris-murdoch unhealthy doom	Iris Murdoch
f7174c3	She lived in the dream world of unreality, or else she would not admit reality; he did not know. In any case, he loved her as she was. It might never be used, but it would give her pleasure to have it.	coping love doom last-days unreality post-apocalyptic delusion	Nevil Shute
16af428	The Americans have no sense of doom, none whatever. They do not recognize doom when they see it.	giovanni-s-room james-baldwin cultural doom blind americans	James Baldwin

God's creatures who cried themselves to sleep stirred to cry again.

sleep murder humanity darkness god god-s-creation hannibal never-ending psychopath the-silence-of-the-lambs doomed cycle doom serial-killer serial-killers crying punishment prison insanity horror mental-illness hell

Thomas Harris

d35fcbd

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.

fate destiny doom

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

70cb99b

The doom lies in yourself, not in your name.

doom

J.R.R. Tolkien

ef8031f

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

death identity identity-crisis doom despair

H.P. Lovecraft

fd427d6

Now when Turin 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.

fate doom

J.R.R. Tolkien

40f5f94

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.

doom flight

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

3c64d58

Try persuading the world not to cut its throat for half a decade or more...and it'll begin to dawn on you that even your behavior's part of its plan.

doom

Malcolm Lowry

97e3315

"I guess if there's one thing I can say about the 21st century, it's that the 21st century is all flash and no substance... everything is digital, nothing but files of invisible electronic data on computers and mindless zombies on their cellular phones... it's sad how because of the digital age, society is ultimately doomed. Nothing in the digital age is real anymore, and you know, they say celluloid film and ray tube televisions and maybe even paper might become obsolete in this century? ...What's most annoying is that nobody cares, they've just learned to accept the digital age and get addicted to it... none of them are ever going to step up and say to the world, "you're all a bunch of sheep!" and even if they did say anything, I doubt anyone would listen... they're all too obsessed and attached to their cellular phones and overly big televisions and whatever other moronic things they've got these days... it almost makes me want an apocalypse to happen, to erase digital technology and force the world to start over again."

photography future books bleak cell-phones celluloid depressingly-honest super-8 camera digital paper doom apocalypse book film scary poison

Rebecca McNutt

8d79680

"Cathy, don't look so defeated. She was only trying to put us down again. Maybe nothing did work out right for her, but that doesn't mean we are doomed. Let's go forth tomorrow with no great expectations of finding perfection. Then, expecting only a small share of happiness, we won't be disappointed." If a little hill of happiness would satisfy Chris, good for him. But after all these years of striving, hoping, dreaming, longing-I wanted a mountain high! A hill wasn't enough. From this day forward, I vowed to myself, I was in control of my life. Not fate, not God, not even Chris was ever again going to tell me what to do, or dominate me in any way. From this day forward, I was my own person, to take what I would, when I would, and I would answer only to myself. I'd been kept prisoner, held captive by greed. I'd been betrayed, deceived, tied to, used, poisoned ... but all that was over now."

perfection fate defeat greed happiness decieved poisened used years-of-struggle towmorrow great-expectations defeated vow captive doomed wanting striving doom vows years dreaming wants put-downs expectations longing

V.C. Andrews

2319ccc

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

perfection happiness disapointment facial-expressions put-down putting-people-down small-share towmorrow work-out doomed doom small put-downs expectations

V.C. Andrews

2d32942

Thunder and blood and night must usurp our parts, to complete and make up the catastrophe of this great piece.

fate doom

E.R. Eddison

cd7f133

"A week passed, and Jean Valjean had not taken a step in his room. He still remained in bed. The portress said to her husband:-"The good man upstairs yonder does not get up, he no longer eats, he will not last long. That man has his sorrows, that he has. You won't get it out of my head that his daughter has made a bad marriage." The porter replied, with the tone of marital sovereignty: "If he's rich, let him have a doctor. If he is not rich, let him go without. If he has no doctor he will die." "And if he has one?" "He will die," said the porter."

doom mortal dying

Victor Hugo

b05d5c1

I know people can be awful dooms for each other.

toxic-relationships the-black-prince toxic-people iris-murdoch unhealthy doom

Iris Murdoch

f7174c3

She lived in the dream world of unreality, or else she would not admit reality; he did not know. In any case, he loved her as she was. It might never be used, but it would give her pleasure to have it.

coping love doom last-days unreality post-apocalyptic delusion

Nevil Shute

16af428

The Americans have no sense of doom, none whatever. They do not recognize doom when they see it.

giovanni-s-room james-baldwin cultural doom blind americans

James Baldwin