Quotes About Apocalypse

New York makes one think of the collapse of civilization, about Sodom and Gomorrah, the end of the world. The end wouldn't come as a surprise here. Many people already bank on it.

E, senza che apparentemente nessuno di noi abbia preso alcuna iniziativa, premiamo i nostri corpi l'uno contro l'altro, baciandoci come se fosse la mezzanotte in una festa alla fine del mondo.

Christopher Rowland, who has plumbed apocalyptic literature as well as anyone in the modern era, counters much of the common interpretation of Revelation when he says, "We should not ask of apocalypses, what do they mean? Rather, we should ask, how do the images and designs work? How do they affect us and change our lives?

Revelation "is not about a rapture out of this world but about faithful discipleship in this world.

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The Doomsday weight-loss plan kicks ass.

The storm howled out of the west like the terrible voice of God, shouting down the heretics who doubted the coming Apocalypse.

When she awoke, the world was on fire.

One of my favorite books [The Stand] of all time. I grew up reading it.

The last time I saw her was red. The sky was like soup, boiling and stirring. In some places, it was burned. There were black crumbs, and pepper, streaked across the redness.

There's just no real job security when you're shooting a show about an apocalypse and anybody could die at any time.

On the day the world is blown up, the playwright whose show opened the night before will be leafing past the news section of the Times to find his review--as he ascends through the stratosphere, oblivious.

When you predicted an apocalypse, you needed sooner or later to produce one.

The living and dead were thrown together, and the dead looked away first. -Description of Doomsday

Anche dalle apocalissi si può tornare indietro, se uno ha il coraggio di guardarci dentro. Ma voi non avete questo coraggio. Parlate di tutte le apocalissi, meno che della vostra. Lasciate pure a noi spiriti l'ultimo colpo di spada. Non posso spiegarle cosa accadrà, Hacarus. Tutto ciò che è troppo diverso da quello che siete soliti pensare, voi lo chiamate nulla. Bene, dopo di noi ci sarà il nulla. E in questo nulla qualcosa ricomincerà.

This is the way I think the world will end—with general giggling by all the witty heads, who think it is a joke.' Kierkegaard.

The apocalypse never came, and it's not going to come. This idea belongs to the world of ancient mythology, and it wasn't a very good idea to begin with. In it the Jewish God of shalom becomes a violent overlord, and the Prince of Peace becomes a supernatural warrior, a fire-breathing monster who lays waste the earth, its forests, its animals, and all but a remnant of its people -- the chosen few. How many have believed they were the few! (pg. 250)

And then the world exploded.

As for the end of the universe…I say let it come as it will, in ice, fire, or darkness. What did the universe ever do for me that I should mind its welfare?

There's a Reason Cell Rhymes with Hell

Benny Imura was appalled to learn that the Apocalypse came with homework. "Why do we have to study this stuff?" he demanded. "We already know what happened. People started turning into zoms, the zoms ate just about everyone, everyone who dies becomes a zom, so the moral of this tale is: Try not to die.

Well, maybe that would have happened if the world hadn't ended. It did. The world ended. On a friday.

Everybody is waiting for the end to come, but what if it already passed us by? What if the final joke of Judgment Day was that it had already come and gone and we were none the wiser? Apocalypse arrives quietly; the chosen are herded off to heaven, and the rest of us, the ones who failed the test, just keep on going, oblivious. Dead already, wandering around long after the gods have stopped keeping score, still optimistic about the future.

Mr Lockwood,' he said slowly. 'It's like the end of the world.