Damnation Quotes

All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation. (W. H. Auden)
War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with. View quote
Lois McMaster Bujold
Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation. View quote
Lois McMaster Bujold
The lack of a sense of history is the damnation of the modern world. View quote
Robert Penn Warren
A drunkard clasp his teeth and not undo 'em, To suffer wet damnation to run through 'em. View quote
Cyril Tourneur
I had taken a partner once before-but, damnation, no matter how many times you get your fingers burned, you have to trust people. Otherwise you are a hermit in a cave, sleeping with one eye open. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
I finally broke into the prison I found my place in the chain Even damnation is poisoned with rainbows. View quote
Leonard Cohen
What gnashing is not a comfort, what gnawing of the worm is not a tickling, what torment is not a marriage bed to this damnation, to be secluded eternally, eternally, eternally from the sight of God? View quote
John Donne
Hell and damnation, life is such fun with a ragged greatcoat and a Jerry gun! View quote
Alexander Blok
Goddamn you,” Jacob said. "There's no damnation, Jacob. No Heaven but the forest and no God but the hive. View quote
Robert Charles Wilson
The wrath of God burns against them, their damnation does not slumber; the pit is prepared, the fire is made ready, the furnace is now hot, ready to receive them; the flames do now rage and glow. (Jonathan Edwards (theologian))
God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the human race, without any merit of their own, to eternal salvation, and another part, in just punishment of their sin, to eternal damnation. View quote
John Calvin
What matters an eternity of damnation to someone who has found in one second the infinity of joy? View quote
Charles Baudelaire
Many [hooligans] discover to their shame that they have scruples; they have roots and, greatest disadvantage of all, they have hope. The fathers superior of the order do not try to influence their children in Satan; they merely shake their heads in sorrow. They know that the apostate must work out his own damnation. View quote
Quentin Crisp
Nothing in the world delights a truly religious people so much, as consigning them to eternal damnation. View quote
James Hogg
I have sinned enough against the world. Teaching magic to a kender would ensure my damnation. -Raistlin Majere. View quote
Margaret Weis
You have robbed me, and everyone here, of their purpose. That's not salvation, that's damnation. View quote
Neal Shusterman
Please excuse Jason from eternal damnation. He has had amnesia. View quote
Rick Riordan
I don't know if I ever really bought into the eternal damnation bit. View quote
Tim Robbins
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? View quote
Holly Black
I sincerely believe I could have wounded up in a lot of trouble if I had not been taught as a boy to fear Hell, and to believe that certain wicked acts could lead me to damnation. (Robert Vaughan)
It is rather striking to think that the very core of the Christian message, salvation itself, the sacrifice of God's own son to rescue humanity from eternal damnation, should be framed in the language of a financial transaction. View quote
David Graeber
The Holy Ghost carries on the whole Christian system in His truth. Not a baptism, not a marriage, not a Sacrament can be administered but by the Holy Ghost ... There is no authority civil or religious: There can be no legitimate government but what is administered by the Holy Ghost. There can be no salvation without it. All without it is rebellion and perdition, or in more orthodox words damnation. View quote
John Adams
There are some men who expose themselves to damnation so foolishly by avarice, by brutality, by debauches, by violence, by excesses, by blasphemies! ...it is always a great folly for a man to expose himself to damnation... He must despise desire and its kingdom, and aspire to that kingdom of love in which all the subjects breathe nothing but love, and desire nothing but the benefits of love. View quote
Blaise Pascal
Let not this weak, unknowing hand Presume Thy bolts to throw, And deal damnation round the land On each I judge Thy foe. View quote
Alexander Pope