“I have been reading the morning paper. I do it every morning-knowing well that I shall find in it the usual depravities and basenesses and hypocrisies and cruelties that make up civilization, and cause me to put in the rest of the day pleading for the damnation of the human race. I cannot seem to get my prayers answered, yet I do not despair.” HumansWellsHas BeensSeemsReadingCausesPrayerRaceMorningKnowingCivilizationDespairPaperCrueltyHuman RaceHypocrisyUsualEvery MorningDamnationDepravityPleadingAnswered PrayersBaseness Author:Mark Twain
“Shall we keep men in a fool's paradise? Shall we lull them into soft slumbers from which they will awake in hell? Are we to become helpers of their damnation by our smooth speeches? In the name of God, we will not!” MenNamesHellFoolSpeechAwakeParadiseSmoothDamnationSlumberHelpersLulls Book:Sermons on the Last Days Source: Sermons on the Last Days
“Christ Jesus left you this sweet key of obedience; for He left His Vicar, whom you are all obliged to obey until death. And whoever is outside his obedience is in a state of damnation.” StatesJesusLeftChristSweetKeysObedienceObligedDamnationVicars Author:St. Catherine of Siena
“This is the doctrine that we preach; if a man be saved, all the honor is to be given to Christ; but if a man be lost, all the blame is to be laid upon himself. You will find all true theology summed up in these two short sentences, salvation is all of the grace of God, damnation is all of the will of man.” IfsMenTwoLostGivenChristGraceHonorBlameSalvationSentencesSavedTheologyDoctrineGrace Of GodDamnation Book:Commentary on Isaiah Source: Commentary on Isaiah
“Like a cross between Paul Auster's The Book of Illusions and Janice Lee's Damnation, The Absolution of Roberto Acestes Laing is at once smart and slyly unsettling. It is expert at creating a quietly building sense of dread while claiming to do something as straightforward as describe lost films—like those conversations you have in which you realize only too late that what you actually talking about and what you think you are talking about are not the same thing at all. With Rombes, Two Dollar Radio deftly demonstrates why it is rapidly becoming the go-to press for innovative fiction.” ThinkingTwoBookFilmLostRealizingFictionTalkingBuildingBecomingConversationLateCreatingSmartIllusionCrossesPressesDollarsRadioExpertsToo LateDreadInnovativeStraightforwardDamnationAbsolution Author:Brian Evenson
“You are my angel and my damnation; in your presence I reach divine ecstasy and in your absence I descent to hell.” LoveHellDivineAngelAbsenceEcstasyDescentDamnationYour PresenceYour AbsenceMy Angel Author:Isabel Allende
“Even if we could be certain that one of the world's religions were perfectly true, given the sheer number of conflicting faiths on offer, every believer should expect damnation purely as a matter of probability.” IfsWorldShouldMatterCertainReligionGivenNumbersOffersBelieverSheerProbabilityDamnation Author:Bertrand Russell
“All good writers express the state of their souls, even (as occurs in some cases of very good writers) if it is a state of damnation.” IfsSoulStatesCasesVery GoodGood WritersDamnation Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton
“The upright, honest-hearted man Who strives to do the best he can, Need never fear the church's ban Or hell's damnation.” MenNeedsChurchHellHonestStriveStrifeDo The BestHeartedBansDamnationNever Fear Author:Robert Burns
“To be in a world which is a hell, to be of that world and neither to believe in or guess at anything but that world is not merely hell but the only possible damnation: the act of a man damning himself. It may be” MenWorldBelieveMayHellDamnation Author:William Golding