Damnation famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Suddenly to realise that one is sitting, damned, among the other damned--it is a most disquieting experience; so disquieting thatmost of us react to it by immediately plunging more deeply into our particular damnation in the hope, generally realized, that we may be able, at least for a time, to stifle our revolutionary knowledge.
-- Aldous Huxley -
EVANGELIST, n. A bearer of good tidings, particularly (in a religious sense) such as assure us of our own salvation and the damnation of our neighbors.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
And I am still alive-what though, my damnation is eternal. A man who deliberately mutilates himself is truly damned, is he not? I believe that I am in hell, therefore I am.
-- Arthur Rimbaud -
The future is too good to waste on lies. And life is way too short to care for the damnation of others, as well as to spend it helping fools with their ideas that are wrong.
-- Bowe Bergdahl -
Believers in the doctrines of modern Christendom will reap damnation to their souls.
-- Bruce R. McConkie -
And I have to tell you, as tough as farming is, the idea of farming when you’re losing money year after year... that’s not life even, that’s like death. That’s eternal damnation.
-- Catherine Gilbert Murdock -
What can an eternity of damnation matter to someone who has felt, if only for a second, the infinity of delight?
-- Charles Baudelaire -
There is dust enough on some of your Bibles to write 'damnation' with your fingers.
-- Charles Spurgeon -
A drunkard clasp his teeth and not undo 'em, To suffer wet damnation to run through 'em.
-- Cyril Tourneur -
Better the discomfort that leads to repentance and restoration than temporal comfort and eternal damnation.
-- Francine Rivers -
If one evil thought, if one evil word, if one evil action, deserves eternal damnation, how many hells, my friends, do every one of us deserve, whose whole lives have been one continued rebellion against God!
-- George Whitefield -
Do good under all circumstances, but with no care for any profit, or any blessedness, or any damnation, or any salvation, or any martyrdom; but all you do or omit should be for the honor of Love.
-- Hadewijch -
There is nothing for her beyond those gates," Gavriel said. "Do you think to bring her along like a talisman to remind you of your humanity? Or do you think sharing your damnation will lighten the burden of it?
-- Holly Black -
You are my angel and my damnation; in your presence I reach divine ecstasy and in your absence I descent to hell.
-- Isabel Allende -
...in his gambling, he had one besetting weakness -- faith in a system; and this made his damnation certain.
-- Jack London -
No relief was forthcoming from my then-Catholic faith, which said the practice of homosexuality was a 'mortal sin' subject to damnation.
-- James McGreevey -
What is the damnation of hell? To go with that society who have not obeyed His commands.
-- Joseph Smith, Jr. -
In the name of God, impure souls of the living dead shall be banished into eternal damnation. Amen.
-- Kohta Hirano -
I have sinned enough against the world. Teaching magic to a kender would ensure my damnation. —Raistlin Majere
-- Margaret Weis -
For he who touches the Body of Christ unworthily receives his damnation.
-- Peter Chrysologus -
Goddamn you," Jacob said. "There's no damnation, Jacob. No Heaven but the forest and no God but the hive.
-- Robert Charles Wilson -
The lack of a sense of history is the damnation of the modern world.
-- Robert Penn Warren -
That double-headed monster of damnation and salvation--Time.
-- Samuel Beckett -
Sometimes there is absolutely no difference at all between salvation and damnation.
-- Stephen King -
I don't know if I ever really bought into the eternal damnation bit.
-- Tim Robbins -
Idiot. Above her head was the only stable point in the cosmos, the only refuge from the damnation of the panta rei, and she guessed it was the Pendulum's business. A moment later the couple went off -- he, trained on some textbook that had blunted his capacity for wonder, she, inert and insensitive to the thrill of the infinite, both oblivious of the awesomeness of their encounter -- their first and last encounter -- with the One, the Ein-Sof, the Ineffable. How could you fail to kneel down before this altar of certitude?
-- Umberto Eco -
It was not that I thought I was smarter. I had simply explored science and found what seemed to me a far more powerful authority. And, I did not steal or murder because I thought they were wrong, not because I feared damnation.
-- Victor J. Stenger -
All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.
-- W. H. Auden -
The Augustinian doctrine of the damnation of unbaptized infants and the Calvinistic doctrine of reprobation . . . surpass in atrocity any tenets that have ever been admitted into any pagan creed.
-- William Edward Hartpole Lecky -
There is something in us, as storytellers and as listeners to stories, that demands the redemptive act, that demands that what falls at least be offered the chance to be restored. The reader of today looks for this motion, and rightly so, but what he has forgotten is the cost of it. His sense of evil is diluted or lacking altogether, and so he has forgotten the price of restoration. When he reads a novel, he wants either his sense tormented or his spirits raised. He wants to be transported, instantly, either to mock damnation or a mock innocence.
-- Flannery O'Connor -
Nothing in the world delights a truly religious people so much as consigning them to eternal damnation.
-- James Hogg
