Doomed Quotes

See also Core English Vocabulary (D) Quotes

I`ve learned from studying Kabbalah that if your happiness is based on people approving of everything you do, you`re doomed to fail... Kabbalah helped me stand up and take responsibility for everything to do with me.

- Madonna

We started shooting, and then Jodie found out she was pregnant. Forest broke it to me - he`d gone to work and heard it on the radio! It seemed like the movie was doomed. But, like these characters, there was a disregard for all the signs along the way.

- Dwight Yoakam

(12/5/03, on initially thinking it crazy to release the LOTR trilogy 12 months apart) I thought people wouldn`t remember what happened a year ago. But I hadn`t factored that they would be so successful at the box office, and that so many people would buy the DVD and videos in between the release of each film. I had thought the whole enterprise was doomed, because of the release pattern. I`m very happy to have been proved wrong.

- Ian McKellen

I`ve seen the people who talk about their love lives in print invariably have doomed relationships with the person they`re talking about.

- John Cusack

I knew an actor`s career goes up and down and back up again. Your standing in this business can`t be your whole identity; otherwise, you`re doomed.

- Lisa Kudrow

(on fan art) "I just saw a montage that they put together to music, and it was the whole Tyrol and Boomer storyline. And it was all these clips that they put together, and someone sent it to me for my interest. And I watched the thing, and by the end, I was all moved. I was like, "I want them to be together!" (laughs) "They`re so great!" Then I was like, "But if I think about it, that was doomed.""

- Grace Park

I know I`m going to blow one day. My life is doomed the way it is. I have no future.

- Mike Tyson

(Explaining why he felt Communism was doomed to fail) "People like to own things."

- Frank Zappa

I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.

- Bette Davis

Perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring, doomed to try and learn what I should simply recognize, learning a mere fraction of what I have forgotten.

- André Breton

All that is not perfect down to the smallest detail is doomed to perish.

- Gustav Mahler

If I were spiteful, I would remind you that it is only fitting that a twisted, narcissistic psychopath, obsessed with public attention, will soon have his world reduced to an isolated solitary existence in an 80-square-foot cell doomed to languish away the rest of your miserable life, alone,

- Jeff Davis

Remember, Alan Greenspan was a member of Ayn Rand`s collective. To understand this is to understand why we are doomed with the Federal Reserve.

- Peter Fonda

Feminism is doomed to failure because it is based on an attempt to repeal and restructure human nature.

- Phyllis Schlafly

I always wanted to be an explorer, but - it seemed I was doomed to be nothing more than a very silly person.

- Michael Palin

The first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man.

- Huey P. Newton

We make films that we ourselves would want to see and then hope that other people would want to see it. If you try to analyze audiences or think there`s some sophisticated recipe for success, then I think you are doomed. You`re making it too complicated.

- Brad Bird

Even though marriage is doomed, if you turned it into a job you like and really work at it - it can be salvaged.

- Al Goldstein

I guess in my pictures you`re either doomed or you`ve got yourself a hell of a job.

- George A. Romero

(What Space X ultimately contributes to space travel might please the government in other ways.) One of the significant innovations of Falcon V is that because it`s got five engines on the main stage, it can actually lose an engine and reach orbit safely, ... If the space shuttle were to lose one of its solid rocket boosters the people on the shuttle would be doomed.

- Elon Musk

So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of the arts will go on; and if that system is to last for ever, then art is doomed, and will surely die; that is to say, civilization will die.

- William Morris

If we don`t stop somewhere, if we don`t accept an unhappy compromise, unhappy for both sides, if we don`t learn how to unhappily coexist and contain our burned sense of injustice - if we don`t learn how to do that, we end up in a doomed state.

- Amos Oz

When I think of a merry, happy, free young girl - and look at the ailing, aching state a young wife generally is doomed to - which you can`t deny is the penalty of marriage.

- Queen Victoria

Historians are left forever chasing shadows, painfully aware of their inability ever to reconstruct a dead world in its completeness however thorough or revealing their documentation. We are doomed to be forever hailing someone who has just gone around the corner and out of earshot.

- Simon Schama

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don`t try.

- Beverly Sills

We can`t live any more in a world which is based on stuff and not ideas. If you want to live with the world of stuff, we`re all doomed.

- Alan Starling

Most of them are doomed to rapid extinction, but a few may make evolutionary inventions, such as physiological, ecological, or behavioral innovations that give these species improved competitive potential.

- Alejandro Queral

In America, we have the feeling of the doomed young artist. Fitzgerald was the great example of that.

- Alexis Redmond

If men do not now succeed in abolishing war, civilization and mankind are doomed.

- Aluf Ben

I never thought of myself as either a woman or a man. I thought of myself as a person who was born to a writer, who was doomed to be a writer.

- Alyson Mike

Students rarely disappoint teachers who assure them in advance that they are doomed to failure.

- Andrea Reed

Put your body--your life--in God`s hands, ... You hold that ministry in your hand, (and) it`s doomed. Place your life in his hand, and God will do miracles, because it all depends upon whose hand it`s in.

- Arul Chinnaiyan

Space by itself, and time by itself, are doomed to fade away into mere shadows, and only a kind union of the two will preserve an independent reality

- Albert Einstein