#doomed

I will love you as the iceberg loves the ship, and the passengers love the lifeboat and the lifeboat loves the teeth of the sperm whale, and the sperm whale loves the flavor of naval uniforms. ↗

— Lemony Snicket

#love

In individual industries where female labour pays an important role, any movement advocating better wages, shorter working hours, etc., would not be doomed from the start because of the attitude of those women workers who are not organized. ↗

— Clara Zetkin

#any #attitude #because #better #doomed

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. ↗

— Marguerite Young

#doomed #either #i #man #myself

I'm in love with you," he said quietly. "Augustus," I said. "I am," he said. He was staring at me, and I could see the corners of his eyes crinkling. "I'm in love with you, and I'm not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things. I'm in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we're all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we'll ever have, and I am in love with you. ↗

— John Green

#inevitable #love #oblivion #pleasure #simple

Mass transportation is doomed to failure in North America because a person's car is the only place where he can be alone and think. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#america #because #car #doomed #failure

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

#arts #civilization #competition #degradation #die

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

— Huey Newton

#first #learn #lesson #man #must

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

— Michael Palin

#doomed #explorer #i #i always #more

Whatever needs to be maintained through force is doomed. ↗

— Henry Miller

#force #maintained #needs #through #whatever

The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#because #death #devour #doomed #fate