Quotes about damn
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“He'll never be frightened. He knows too damn much.”

Ernest Hemingway book The Sun Also Rises

Source: The Sun Also Rises

“Tell me, is he always really rude, or does he save that for mundanes?"
"Oh, he's rude to everyone," said Isabelle airily. "It's what makes him so damn sexy. That and he's killed more demons than anyone else his age.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

Age

“Damn, that werewolf melts my butter,” Mari sighed. “He’s so miserable,” she added delightedly.”

Kresley Cole American writer

Source: Dark Needs at Night's Edge

“Be careful--with quotations, you can damn anything.”

André Malraux (1901–1976) French novelist, art theorist and politician

“When I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it will stay split.”

Raymond Chandler (1888–1959) Novelist, screenwriter

In a letter to the editor of the Atlantic Monthly.
Context: By the way, would you convey my compliments to the purist who reads your proofs and tell him or her that I write in a sort of broken-down patois which is something like the way a Swiss-waiter talks, and that when I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it will remain split, and when I interrupt the velvety smoothness of my more or less literate syntax with a few sudden words of barroom vernacular, this is done with the eyes wide open and the mind relaxed and attentive. The method may not be perfect, but it is all I have.

God

“Literature has been the salvation of the damned, literature has inspired and guided lovers, routed despair and can perhaps in this case save the world.”

John Cheever (1912–1982) American novelist and short story writer

Entry in his journal before his last public appearance, the ceremony at which he received the National Medal for Literature, quoted by Susan Cheever, Home before Dark Houghton Mifflin (1984).

World, Literature, Lovers, Despair

“His fists clenched at his sides. 'Damn it! Where's your pride?'
'Pride? It's in my heart, of course.'
'You're letting me demean you!'
She smiled. 'You can't do that. I can only demean myself.”

Susan Elizabeth Phillips (1948) American writer

Source: Kiss an Angel

Smile, Heart

“You dress her in a wet T-shirt and make her carry the bags? Damn, Cade, I like how you roll" - Rok”

Kresley Cole American writer

Source: Dark Desires After Dusk

Kresley Cole American writer

Source: Wicked Deeds on a Winter's Night

Life, Fear, Hope

“Hey!" Claire called after him, as she leaned her backpack against the wall.
"No onions!"
"Your loss!"
"I meant for YOU! Not if you want to get kissed tonight!"
"Damn, girl. Harsh.”

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

Source: Ghost Town

Girl, Kiss, Loss

“Scarcely anything in literature is worth a damn except what is written between the lines.”

Raymond Chandler (1888–1959) Novelist, screenwriter

Literature

“In general there should be gay characters in YA because a) surprise, there are gay folks everywhere and b) in my opinion as a father, there’s not a damn thing wrong with my child encountering gay folks in her literature, because see point a).”

John Scalzi (1969) American science fiction writer

Literature

“I'll be damned if I apologize for the choices I've made. They were hard decisions, but I had good reasons for making them.”

Christine Feehan American writer

Source: Oceans of Fire

Decision

“Intelligence is so damn rare and the people who have it often have such a bad time with it that they get bitter or propagandistic and then it's not much use.”

Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist

People, Intelligence, Time

“Intelligence and education that hasn't been tempered by human affection isn't worth a damn.”

Daniel Keyes (1927–2014) American author

Education, Intelligence

“I think we're dating now" "Come on… I got you naked. You wore a damn corset. And don't get me started on the sponge bath afterward.”

Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist

Source: Lover Unleashed

Thinking

“There.” She tossed her hair back while he stared at her. “The sky did not fall, the world did not end, neither of us was struck by lightning or beamed straight to hell. I’m not your damn
sister, Delaney. That ought to make it clear.”

Nora Roberts (1950) American romance writer

Source: Savor the Moment

World, Hell, Sister

“What can I say about life? Do I praise it for letting you live, or damn it for allowing the rest?”

Janet Fitch book White Oleander

Source: White Oleander

Life

“What occurs to people when they read Kurt [Vonnegut] is that things are much more up for grabs than they thought they were. The world is a slightly different place just because they read a damn book. Imagine that.”

Mark Vonnegut (1947) American physician and writer

People, Books, World, Imagination

“It's hard to have anything isn't it? Rare to get it, hard to keep it. This is a damn slippery planet.”

Thomas Harris Red Dragon

Source: Red Dragon

“Poets are damned but they are not blind, they see with the eyes of angels.”

William Carlos Williams (1883–1963) American poet

Angels

“If you cannot recognize the problem, there is no way that I could explain it to you."
He laughed, damn the man. "My goodness," he said, "that was an expert sidestep.”

Julia Quinn (1970) American novelist

Source: An Offer From a Gentleman

Way, Problem

“I want to hug you. And I want to tear your gods-damned head off. Both at once."

"Ah," said Locke. "Near as I can tell, that’s the definition of 'family' right there.”

Scott Lynch book Red Seas Under Red Skies

Source: Red Seas Under Red Skies

God, Family, Tear

“Double damn. I was a harlot. I was a freaking vampire hussy.”

Kim Harrison (1966) Pseudonym

Source: Dead Witch Walking

“The dead know everything but they don't give a damn.”

Joanne Harris book Runemarks

Source: Runemarks

Dead

“Damn me to hell or take me to heaven, but for Gods sake, do it now….”

Nora Roberts (1950) American romance writer

Source: The Stanislaski Brothers: Mikhail and Alex

God, Hell

“Forest, I fear you! In my ruined heart your roaring wakens the same agony as in cathedrals when the organ moans and from the depths I hear that I am damned.”

Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867) French poet

Fear, Heart

“When once your point of view is changed, the very thing which was so damning becomes a clue to the truth.”

Arthur Conan Doyle book The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes

Source: The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes

Truth, Change

“… the opposite of love is not hate -- it's apathy. It's not giving a damn. If somebody hates me, they must "feel" something… or they couldn't possibly hate. Therefore, there's some way in which I can get to them.”

Leo Buscaglia (1924–1998) Motivational speaker, writer

Love, Hate, Way, Feeling

“We believe in the wrong things, that's what frustrates me the most. Not the lack of belief, but the belief in the wrong things. You want meaning? Well, the meanings are out there. We're just so damn good at reading them wrong.”

David Levithan (1972) American author and editor

Source: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

Reading

“One more thing."
"What."
"I think we're dating now." As V barked out a laugh, the cop shrugged. "Come on…. I got you naked. You wore a damn corset. And don't get me started about the sponge bath afterward."
"Fucker."
"To the end.”

Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist

Source: Lover Unleashed

Thinking

“The music we listen to may not define who we are. But it’s a damn good start.”

Jodi Picoult book Sing You Home

Source: Sing You Home

Music

“If the feeling is there, you might as
well admit it. Saying the words, or not saying
them, doesn't change a damn thing”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: Smooth Talking Stranger

Feeling, Change

“The advantage to being a wicked bastard is that everyone pesters the Lord on your behalf; if volume of prayers from my saintly enemies means anything, I'll be saved when the Archbishop of Canterbury is damned. It's a comforting thought.”

George MacDonald Fraser Flashman at the Charge

Source: Flashman at the Charge

“I don’t give a damn if they throw me down into the deepest, slimiest pit for eternity. I belong here and no one is going to make me leave. No one! (Selena)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Seize the Night

“You intend to kiss me and yet you are going to all this damn trouble about it.”

William Faulkner (1897–1962) American writer

Kiss

“You know, Uri, there’s something seriously wrong with me. (Acheron)
And you’re just now figuring this out? Damn, you’re the poster child for slow learning. (Urian)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Acheron

Learning

“Juliet and Romeo be damned, you can't be in love until you've flossed your teeth next to the person at least three hundred times…”

Marisha Pessl Special Topics in Calamity Physics

Source: Special Topics in Calamity Physics

Love, Time, Personality

“It's just a crazy damned life, that's all…”

Sara Gruen book Water for Elephants

Source: Water for Elephants

Life

“This is the biggest damn iPod I've ever seen,' Claire said, which made him choke on his beer.
'Kidding. I have seen a jukebox before.'
'The way you're feeding it, I'm not so sure. You think you picked enough songs?”

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

Source: Feast of Fools

Way, Beer, Thinking

“Damn, Claire. Warn a guy before you do a face-plant on the floor next time. I could have looked all heroic and caught you or something -Shane”

Rachel Caine book Glass Houses

Source: Glass Houses

Guy, Time, Funny

“Decide what makes you happy and damn what anyone else thinks or says”

Maya Banks (1964) Author

Source: Rush

Happiness, Thinking

“It wasn't my day. My week. My month. My year. My life. God damn it.”

Charles Bukowski book Pulp

Variant: It wasn’t my day. My week. My month. My year. My life. God damn it.
Source: Pulp

Life, God

“Oh, Jake,' Brett said, 'we could have had such a damned good time together.'
Ahead was a mounted policeman in khaki directing traffic. He raised his baton. The car slowed suddenly pressing Brett against me.
'Yes,' I said. 'Isn’t it pretty to think so?”

Ernest Hemingway book The Sun Also Rises

Book 3, Ch. 19 (the last lines of the novel)
Source: The Sun Also Rises (1926)

Cars, Thinking, Time

“I know nothing of god or the devil. I have never learned a secret nor found a cure that would damn or save my soul.”

Anne Rice (1941) American writer

God, Secret, Soul, Learning

“Sex had been amazing, but it wasn't a magical cure for everything. Damn. Somewhere along the way, I'd picked up common sense.”

Richelle Mead book Last Sacrifice

Source: Last Sacrifice

Sex, Way, Sense

“War is just a damn nuisance.”

Mark Hanna (1837–1904) Republican United States Senator from Ohio

War

“A man in the jungle at night, as someone said, may suppose a hyena's growl to be a lion's; but when he hears the lion's growl, he knows damn well it's a lion.”

Sheldon Vanauken (1914–1996) American journalist

Source: A Severe Mercy: A Story of Faith, Tragedy and Triumph

Night

“this is the upside of already being eternally damned”

Chuck Palahniuk book Survivor

Source: Survivor

“love be damned now
as love was damned when it
first arrived.”

Charles Bukowski book The People Look Like Flowers at Last

Source: The People Look Like Flowers at Last

Love

“Any damn fool can beg up some kind of job; it takes a wise man to make it without working.”

Charles Bukowski book Post Office

Source: Post Office (1971)

Fools, Back To Work

“Sticks and stones may break your bones, but watch out for those damn words.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Lullaby

Variant: Sticks and stones may break your bones but words can hurt like hell.
Source: Lullaby (2002), Chapter 14

“sometimes i wish i'd been an englishman; american life is so damned dumb and stupid and healthy”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book This Side of Paradise

Source: This Side of Paradise

Life, Stupidity

“Damn, you have no idea what I have been through today."

"Actually I have a pretty good idea.”

Richelle Mead book The Fiery Heart

Source: The Fiery Heart

Idea

“If I were omnipotent and omnibenevolent I wouldn't be so damn ineffable.”

Jo Walton book Among Others

Source: Among Others

“I never saw such crazy musicians. Everybody in Frisco blew. It was the end of the continent; they didn't give a damn.”

Jack Kerouac book On the Road

Source: On the Road

“I don't give a damn about what people say. They can be reptile food for all I care.”

Haruki Murakami book Dance Dance Dance

Source: Dance Dance Dance

People, Food

“Must we behave like some damn godforsaken tribe that's just been discovered?”

Arundhati Roy book The God of Small Things

Source: The God of Small Things

“She had made the choice for him - in a moment of flight and panic, but she had made it - not realizing that her Jace would rather die than be like this, and that she'd been not so much saving his life as damning him to an existence he would despise.”

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls

Source: City of Lost Souls

Life

“People who keep stiff upper lips find that it's damn hard to smile.”

Judith Guest Ordinary People

Source: Ordinary People

People, Smile, Cute

“I was getting depressed. My life wasn't going anywhere. I needed something, the flashing of lights, glamour, some damn thing. And here I was, talking to the dead. I finished my first drink. The second was ready.”

Charles Bukowski book Pulp

Source: Pulp

Life, Drink, Light, Dead

“Being loved is a good thing. A grand thing. The best damned thing of all.”

Lori Wilde (1958) American writer

Source: High Stakes Seduction

Love

“You were totally unprepared for her.”
“That's for damned sure.”

Richelle Mead book The Golden Lily

Source: The Golden Lily

“Damn, Atlantean, what did you do? (Julian)
I apparently made a new friend. (Acheron)
I made a friend like that once. The bastard almost gutted me. (Julian)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Acheron

“Open your eyes, Clevinger. It doesn't make a damned bit of difference who wins the war to someone who's dead.”

Joseph Heller book Catch-22

Source: Catch-22 (1961)

War, Dead

“You have told me, O God, to believe in hell. But you have forbidden me to think… of any man as damned.”

Pierre Teilhard De Chardin (1881–1955) French philosopher and Jesuit priest

God, Hell, Thinking

“Damn! I hate farewells!”

John Flanagan (1873–1938) Irish-American hammer thrower

Source: The Siege of Macindaw

Hate

“Dear God, let me be damned a little longer, a little while.”

William Faulkner book Light in August

Source: Light in August

God

“A guitar twanged from the far-off radio. Country music. Damn. They'd resorted to torture already.”

Kelley Armstrong book Stolen

Source: Stolen

Music, Country

“Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes a day. Wisdom consists of not exceeding the limit.”

Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher fue el escritor del jarron azul

The Roycraft Dictionary and Book of Epigrams (1923)
Source: The Roycroft Dictionary Concocted by Ali Baba and the Bunch on Rainy Days

Wisdom, Fools, Deep

“We're all mad, the whole damned race. We're wrapped in illusions, delusions, confusions about the penetrability of partitions, we're all mad and in solitary confinement.”

William Golding book Darkness Visible

Source: Darkness Visible

Madness

“This is not a good time, Miss Implant." Roman felt Jean-Luc jabbing him in the back with his walking stick. "Uh, Porky. No, I mean--" Damn, what the hell was her name?”

Kerrelyn Sparks (1955) American writer

Source: How to Marry a Millionaire Vampire

Hell, Time

“He took one look at me and said, ‘Damn, you cleaned up better than I thought you would.’ (Grace)
I worry about the men of your time, Grace. They all seem to be great fools. (Julian)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon Fantasy Lover

Source: Fantasy Lover

Men, Fools, Time

“That is the one unforgivable sin in any society. Be different and be damned!”

Margaret Mitchell book Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

Source: Gone with the Wind

“Pass the damn ham, please.”

Harper Lee book To Kill a Mockingbird

Source: To Kill a Mockingbird

“If I speak, I am condemned.
If I stay silent, I am damned!”

Victor Hugo book Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

“i feel bad for her - i do. a damn shame, really, that i had to have a mother. it can’t be easy having me for a son. nothing can prepare someone for that kind of disappointment.”

David Levithan book Will Grayson, Will Grayson

Source: Will Grayson, Will Grayson

Disappointment, Feeling

“Done. I have a date. Well, hot damn!”

Fern Michaels (1933) American writer

The Blossom Sisters

“Say it,” she said, and he said, “I love you. I’ll always love you. Forever. It’s a life sentence. Now put the damn ring on.”

Jennifer Crusie book Welcome to Temptation

Source: Welcome to Temptation

Love, Life

“There is no such thing as bad whiskey. Some whiskeys just happen to be better than others. But a man shouldn’t fool with booze until he’s fifty; then he’s a damn fool if he doesn’t.”

William Faulkner (1897–1962) American writer

Fools

“This is the biggest damn IPod I've ever seen," Claire said, which made him choke on his beer. "Kidding. I have seen a jukebox before.”

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

Source: Feast of Fools

Beer

“The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life — and one is as good as the other.”

Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist

Letter to F. Scott Fitzgerald (4 September 1929); published in Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters 1917–1961 (1981) edited by Carlos Baker

Life, Books, Parting

“You damn your own soul better than I ever could.”

Leslie Marmon Silko book Ceremony

Source: Ceremony

Soul

“If I didn't care for fun and such,
I'd probably amount to much.
But I shall stay the way I am,
Because I do not give a damn.”

Dorothy Parker (1893–1967) American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist

16 August 1925
Source: Enough Rope (1926)

Way

“V chuckled. "I had to do something to shut you up. Every damn time I've run into you since I grew it, you ask me if I've French-kissed a tailpipe."

(Rhage)”

Jessica Bird book Lover Eternal

Source: Lover Eternal

Kiss, Time

“You want meaning? Well, the meanings are out there. We're just so damn good at reading them wrong.”

David Levithan (1972) American author and editor

Source: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

Reading

“Nobody looks good in their darkest hour. But it's those hours that make us what we are. We stand strong, or we cower. We emerge victorious, tempered by our trails, or fracture by a permanent, damning fault line.”

Karen Marie Moning (1964) author

Source: Faefever

Strong, Victory

“Do you honestly want credit because you didn’t do anything to a helpless female?”
“No! Yes. No, damn it—”

Kresley Cole American writer

Source: Dark Desires After Dusk

“If you let people into your life a little bit, they can be pretty damn amazing.”

Sherman Alexie book The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

Source: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

Life, People

“He was shaken by the overwhelming revelation that the headlong race between his misfortunes ad his dreams was at that moment reaching the finish line. The rest was darkness, 'Damn it,' he sighed. 'How will I ever get out of this labyrinth!”

Gabriel García Márquez book The General in His Labyrinth

Source: The General in His Labyrinth

Dreams

“Some people like what you do, some people hate what you do, but most people simply don’t give a damn.”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

Hate, People

“Damn, I miss the internet. You could always find people doing stupid stuff on the internet.”

Brandon Sanderson (1975) American fantasy writer

Source: Calamity

People, Stupidity

“They come, an' they quit an' go on; an' every damn one of 'em's got a little piece of land in his head. An' never a God damn one of 'em ever gets it.”

John Steinbeck Of Mice and Men

Source: Of Mice and Men

God

“I am ever a gentle maiden," she shouted. "Damn if I'm not.”

Julie Garwood (1946) American writer

Source: Honor's Splendour

“Let me give you a tip on a clue to men's characters: the man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it.”

Ayn Rand book Atlas Shrugged

Source: Atlas Shrugged

Men, Money

“He raised an eyebrow, which made Clary instantly jealous. She’d always wanted to be able to do that.
…
Magnus raised an eyebrow. Damn, Clary thought, another one.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

“But they were doughnuts of darkness. Evil, damned doughnuts, tainted by the spawn of darkness . . .. . . which could obviously be redeemed only by passing through the fiery, cleansing inferno of a wizardly digestive tract.”

Jim Butcher book Skin Game

Source: Skin Game

Evil

“Put something in your stomach to absorb the alcohol before you spontaneously combust from the fumes. (Nykyrian)
Yeah, it’d be a damn shame to blow my internal organs all over your new shirt.(Syn)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Born of the Night

Alcohol

“Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence but, we thought, if people needed a crutch for consolation, where's the harm? September 11th changed all that. Revealed faith is not harmless nonsense, it can be lethally dangerous nonsense. Dangerous because it gives people unshakeable confidence in their own righteousness. Dangerous because it gives them false courage to kill themselves, which automatically removes normal barriers to killing others. Dangerous because it teaches enmity to others labelled only by a difference of inherited tradition. And dangerous because we have all bought into a weird respect, which uniquely protects religion from normal criticism. Let's now stop being so damned respectful!”

Richard Dawkins (1941) English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author

When asked how the world had changed following the September 11, 2001 attacks <br class="br"> Has the world changed? http://books.guardian.co.uk/writersreflections/story/0,1367,567546,00.html, The Guardian (October 11, 2001)

People, Faith, Religion, Confidence

“Nor did he give a damn for the world either, or the universe, or heaven or hell. But he liked women.”

John Fante book The Brotherhood of the Grape

Source: The Brotherhood of the Grape (1977)
Context: Nobody crossed him without a battle. He disliked almost everything, particularly his wife, his children, his neighbors, his church, his priest, his town, his state, his country, and the country from which he emigrated. Nor did he give a damn for the world either, or the sun or the stars, or the universe, or heaven or hell. But he liked women.

Women, World, Hell, Universe

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