doomed

Link	Quote	Tags	Author
72a6ec1	God's creatures who cried themselves to sleep stirred to cry again.	crying cycle darkness doom doomed god god-s-creation hannibal hell horror humanity insanity mental-illness murder never-ending prison psychopath punishment serial-killer serial-killers sleep the-silence-of-the-lambs	Thomas Harris
39c6675	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.	doomed joy meaning obsession pattern	Donna Tartt
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."	captive decieved defeat defeated doom doomed dreaming expectations fate great-expectations greed happiness longing perfection poisened put-downs striving towmorrow used vow vows wanting wants years years-of-struggle	V.C. Andrews
daeaf6a	Queer, how I misinterpreted the designations of doom.	doomed foreshadowing lolita	Vladimir Nabokov
595c27e	I remember staying to look at it for a long time, as one would linger within reach of a consoling whisper. The sky was pearly grey. It was one of those overcast days so rare in the tropics, in which memories crowd upon one, memories of other shores, of other faces.	dark-sky death depressing depression doomed grey-sky lost-love morose mortality overcast pity sadness temporal	Joseph Conrad
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.	disapointment doom doomed expectations facial-expressions happiness perfection put-down put-downs putting-people-down small small-share towmorrow work-out	V.C. Andrews
74035e9	Sometimes one feels suddenly doomed by fate.	doomed fate foreboding iris-murdoch premonition the-black-prince	Iris Murdoch

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

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

Thomas Harris

39c6675

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.

doomed joy meaning obsession pattern

Donna Tartt

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."

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

V.C. Andrews

daeaf6a

Queer, how I misinterpreted the designations of doom.

doomed foreshadowing lolita

Vladimir Nabokov

595c27e

I remember staying to look at it for a long time, as one would linger within reach of a consoling whisper. The sky was pearly grey. It was one of those overcast days so rare in the tropics, in which memories crowd upon one, memories of other shores, of other faces.

dark-sky death depressing depression doomed grey-sky lost-love morose mortality overcast pity sadness temporal

Joseph Conrad

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.

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

V.C. Andrews

74035e9

Sometimes one feels suddenly doomed by fate.

doomed fate foreboding iris-murdoch premonition the-black-prince

Iris Murdoch