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Quotes About Apocalypse

I love my virginity to the apocalypse.
~ Scott Westerfeld
God, you mean I lost my virginity to the apocalypse? Morgan sighed again. The whole thing was really embarrassing; my parents sent me to Brooklyn when they found out. She shrugged. I thought I'd be safe in a gay bar, okay? What were you doing in there anyway? Lace looked at me sidelong. You were where? I took a sip of beer, swallowed it. I, uh, hadn't been in the city...very long. I didn't know.
~ Scott Westerfeld
God, you mean I lost my virginity to the apocalypse?!
~ Scott Westerfeld
Anyone who might have survived—even momentarily, by dint of having been entirely submerged—would have encountered the true meaning of hell, having been simultaneously flash-boiled, asphyxiated, and cooked from within as the blazing fuel–air mix penetrated all nonairtight objects. As
~ John Birmingham
After all, there have never been loonies carrying signs saying, "The End is Not Near.
~ John Brockman
Son, different rules apply during the End of the World." I did not know what to say to that.
~ John C. Wright
There's also some element of coming of age during the Reagan administration, which everybody has painted as some glorious time in America, but I remember as being a very, very dark time. There was apocalypse in the air the punk rock movement made sense.
~ John Cusack
What if this present were the world's last night?
~ John Donne
So when the last and dreadful hour This crumbling pageant shall devour, The trumpet shall be heard on high, The dead shall live, the living die, And Music shall untune the sky
~ John Dryden
That will be a time when mankind will become its own deity and will destroy the world.
~ John Dunne
If you believe that the world is going to come to an end - and perhaps any day now - does it not drain one's motivation to improve life on earth while we're here?
~ Bill Maher
Some 5 billion years from now, there will be a last perfect day on Earth... then the sun will begin to die, life will be extinguished, the oceans will boil and evaporate away.
~ Carl Sagan
On this road there are no godspoke men. They are gone and I am left and they have taken with them the world.
~ Cormac McCarthy, The Road
Scientists have theorized that when Earth comes to its final days, the only life left on the planet would be in the form of microbes.
~ Brad Steiger
Such are the ills of our time, which flounders between apocalypse and normalcy. Are we in a crisis, or aren't we?
~ Elif Batuman
Me he instalado en esta ciudad para esperar en ella el fin del mundo.
~ Antonio Munoz Molina
The first marriage for a man is a big lesson, the second a grave blunder, the third a fatal accident, the fourth an apocalypse.
~ Anuj Somany
Sister Walburga ate some of the sausage she was taking upriver for the anchorites, but you'd think from her distress that she was a Horseman of the Apocalypse and the Whore of Babylon rolled into one.
~ Ariana Franklin
The Book of Revelation is all about the conflict, the contest between the forces of Good and Evil.
~ Elaine Pagels
stars shall fall from heaven
~ Frederick Douglass
Near the gates and within two cities there will be scourges the like of which was never seen: famine within plague, people put out by steel, crying to the great immortal God for relief.
~ Nostradamus
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~ Ryan Johnson
A great fear came over me, and my body went entirely cold, and I stood as if paralyzed with fear; for I knew that the horse was no earthly horse, but the pale horse that will be sent at the Day of Reckoning, and the rider of it is Death; and it was Death himself who stood behind me, with his arms wrapped around me as tight as iron bands, and his lipless mouth kissing my neck as if in love. But as well as the horror, I also felt a strange longing.
~ Margaret Atwood
But why bother about the end of the world? It's the end of the world every day, for someone. Time rises and rises, and when it reaches the level of your eyes you drown.
~ Margaret Atwood