Best Doom Quotes

Life is too short to spend your precious time trying to convince the person who wants to live in gloom and doom otherwise.

God forbid you be an ugly girl, ‘course too pretty is also your doom, ’cause everyone harbors a secret hatred for the prettiest girl in the room.

People talk about doom-laden scenarios happening in the future: they are happening in Africa now. You can see it perfectly clearly. Periodic famines are due to too many people living on land that can’t sustain them.

I don’t love all hip-hop, but I do relate to stuff like early Nas, 2Pac, Biggie, and MF Doom because they’re also trying to escape a scenario.

Servile labour disappeared because it could not stand the competition of free labour; its un-profitability sealed its doom in the market economy.

Yet though a man gets many wounds in breast, He dieth not, unless the appointed time, The limit of his life’s span, coincide; Nor does the man who by the hearth at home Sits still, escape the doom that Fate decrees.

In youth alone, unhappy mortals live; But, ah! the mighty bliss is fugitive: Discolour’d sickness, anxious labour, come, And age, and death’s inexorable doom.

Nought is there in wealth That serves as bulwark ‘gainst the subtle stealth Of Destiny and Doom.

A man dies not for the many wounds that pierce his breast, unless it be that life’s end keep pace with death, nor by sitting on his hearth at home doth he the more escape his appointed doom.

The doom of a nation can be averted only by a storm of flowing passion, but only those who are passionate themselves can arouse passion in others.

Janie saw her life like a great tree in leaf with the things suffered, things enjoyed, things done and undone. Dawn and doom was in the branches

Our outworn economic system dooms millions to frustration.

The field of doom bears death as its harvest.

I agree to, or rather aspire to, my doom.

There is nothing rarer than a man who can be trusted never to throw away happiness, however eagerly he sometimes grasps it. In history we are as frequently interested in our own doom.

Capitalism in the 19th century did not doom the worker to a life of perpetual poverty. Instead, they kept creating new and better-paying employments as the decades went by. They produced the wealth and rising income that resulted in the emergence of a phenomenon completely new to human history: a self-supporting and educated middle class that grew more and more as they lower classes bettered their economic well-being.

Man is a fire-stealing animal, and we can’t help building machines and machine intelligences, even if, from time to time, we use them not only to outsmart ourselves but to bring us right up to the doorstep of Doom.

My stories are warnings; they’re not predictions. If they were predictions, I wouldn’t do them. Because then I’d be part of the doom-ridden psychology. But every time I name a problem, I try to give a solution.

Gentleness, Virtue, Wisdom, and Endurance, These are the seals of that most firm assurance Which bars the pit over Destruction’s strength; And if, with infirm hand, Eternity, Mother of many acts and hours, should free The serpent that would clasp her with his length; These are the spells by which to reassume An empire o’er the disentangled doom.

I’ve seen a lot of doom and gloom and depressing things, and it’s [the] youth that give me hope.

All responsible writers, to some degree, have become involuntary criers of doom, because doom is in the wind

Be born anywhere, little embryo novelist, but do not be born under the shadow of a great creed, not under the burden of original sin, not under the doom of Salvation.

An equal doom clipp’d Time’s blest wings of peace.

If I have a gig in the evening, I get ‘the doom’ at about 5 P.M., when I think I’m getting flu.

It is the doom of men that they forget.

You and I are bound. We will be each other’s salvation, or each other’s doom.

Some kids spent their allowance going to see ‘Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom’; I spent mine on a great-looking lamp I’d found at the flea market and a ceramic bowl from a neighborhood garage sale.

Would Time but await the close of our favorite follies, we should all be young men, all of us, and until Doom’s Day.

But there is a fatality, a feeling so irresistible and inevitable that it has the force of doom, which almost invariably compels human beings to linger around and haunt, ghost-like, the spot where some great and marked event has given the colour to their lifetime; and, still the more irresistibly, the darker the tinge that saddens it.

The saving of our world from pending doom will come, not through the complacent adjustment of the conforming majority, but through the creative maladjustment of a nonconforming minority.

I am convinced the prophets of doom have to be taken seriously.

An Overall Feeling of Doom that One Cannot Ever Escape no Matter What One Does

Liberty is a principle; its community is its security; exclusiveness is its doom.

The world worlds, and is more fully in being than the tangible and perceptible realm in which we believe ourselves to be at home…By the opening up of a world, all things gain their lingering and hastening, their remoteness and nearness, their scope and limits. In a world’s worlding is gathered that spaciousness out of which the protective grace of the gods is granted and withheld. Even this doom of the god remaining absent is a way in which the world worlds…All coming to presence…keeps itself concealed to the last.

Being in the building with Sarah Palin that night is a transformative and oddly unsettling experience. It’s a little like having live cave-level access for the ripping-the-heart-out-with-the-bare-hands scene in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.