Doom

Men are doomed to live in an overwhelmingly tragic and demonic world. (Ernest Becker in Touchstones, 5 October)

We must endure surprises, pressures and blows from the world as a normal part of life. (Touchstones, 24 August)

... a society built on luxury, on wantonness, on pride, on callousness to human life, and personality is necessarily doomed ... (William Barclay, The Revelation Of John, Vol. 2, p. 164)
5 November 2012

The End

It is still true that the nation in which there is division between man and man, and class and class and hatred based on competitive ambition and selfish desire, is doomed; and the world in which nation is set against nation is hastening to the end. (William Barclay, The Revelation of John, Vol.  2, p. 6) 10 June 2012

Reality Check

People who are constantly cursing reality doom themselves to lives of needless anger and frustration.  They are apt to victimize themselves ... (Dr. Wayne W. Dyer, Pulling Your Own Strings, p. 186) 21 April 2012