doom quotes

'He is coming! he is coming!' Like a bridegroom from his room, Came the hero from his prison To the scaffold and the doom.

-William Edmonstoune Aytoun
  Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers and other Poems,'The Execution of Montrose', stanza14.

That which once united man Now drives him apart.We are not helpless Creatures crashing onwards irresistibly to doom. There is time for everything and time to choose For everything.We are that time, that choice. Everybody gets what he deserves.

- Alan Bold
  'June1967 at Buchenwald'.

Our doom is, to be sifted by the wind, heaped up, smoothed down like silly sands. We are less permanent than thought.

- Basil Bunting
  Villon, pt.1.

Had CainbeenScot,Godwould have changedhisdoom Nor forced him wander, but confined him home.

-John Cleveland
  'The Rebel Scot'.

Alas, regardless of their doom, The little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come, Nor care beyond to-day.

-Thomas Gray
  Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College (published1747), l.51^4.

Yet hope not life from grief or danger free, Nor think the doom of man reversed for thee: Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause awhile from letters, to be wise; There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, Toil, envy, want, the patron and the jail.

- Samuel known as Dr Johnson Johnson
  The Vanity of Human Wishes, l.155^60.

That my old bitter heart was pierced in this black doom, That foreign devils have made our land a tomb, That the sun that was Munster's glory has gone down Has made me a beggar before you,Valentine Brown.

- Egan Gaelic name  Aodhaga  n OŁ   Rathaille O'Rahilly
'Valentine Brown', translated from the Irish by Michael O'Donovan (pseudonym Frank O'Connor).

I am not interested in relationships of color or form or anything else† I am interested only in expressing the basic human emotionstragedy, ecstasy, doom, and so onand the fact that lots of people breakdown and cry when confronted with my pictures shows that I communicate with those basic human emotions. The people who weep before my pictures are having the same religious experience I had when I painted them. And if you, as you say, are moved only by their color relationships, then you miss the point!

- Mark originally Marcus Rothkovitch Rothko
Quoted in R Rosenblum Modern Painting and the Northern RomanticTradition (1975).

   It is better to fight for the good, than to rail at the ill; I have felt with my native land, I am one with my kind, I embrace the purpose of God, and the doom assigned.

-Tennyson
  Maud, pt.3, sect.6, stanza 5, l.57^9.