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Quotes About Apocalypse

Most kids grow up leaving something out for Santa at Christmas time when he comes down the chimney. I used to make presents for the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
~ Jeanette Winterson
Anyone could see the ticker tape. It was more frightening than the that never stopped calculating the national debt. This one said '27 SHOPPING DAYS TO CHRISTMAS'. It might as well have said '27 DAYS TO ARMAGEDDON'.
~ Jeanette Winterson
One of these days they'll be making a film where the whole human race gets wiped out in a nuclear war, but everything works out in the end.
~ Haruki Murakami
Some people think the world will end in 2012. I think we've got until 2014. I'm an optimist.
~ Garry Shandling
I'm completely optimistic - I know the end is coming!
~ Lydia Lunch
We will all go together when we go,All suffused with an incandescent glow.
~ Tom Lehrer
and the earth died screaming, while I lay dreaming...
~ Tom Waits
The Apocalypse is not something out there that will eradicate everything on planet Earth. That would be far too simple. The Apocalypse is in each and every one of us. It takes courage to fight the beast.
~ Tori Amos
And here I sit with my stamps in a complete muddle, and nobody has bothered to tell me what it's all about." "Listen now, Hemul," said Snufkin slowly and clearly. "It's about a comet that is going to collide with the earth tomorrow." "Collide?" said the Hemulen. "Has that anything to do with stamp-collecting?
~ Tove Jansson
JOHNNA: "This is the way the world ends, this is the way the world ends, this is the way the world ends . . ." VIOLET:—and then you're gone, and then you're gone, and then you're gone, and then you're gone—
~ Tracy Letts
We may deny the existence of ethnonationalism, detest it, condemn it. But this creator and destroyer of empires and nations is a force infinitely more powerful than globalism, for it engages the heart. Men will die for it. Religion, race, culture and tribe are the four horsemen of the coming apocalypse.
~ Patrick J. Buchanan
book of Revelation
~ Paul Theroux
Your apocalypse was fab.
~ Tori Amos
The world won't end with a bang or a whimper. It'll end with the death screams of a thousand demons and a defiant, carefree, savage, wolfen howl.
~ Darren Shan
for there was no local news, there were no journalists—all of that wiped out by social media, the advertising apocalypse and, more than anything else, the war on subjectivity—
~ Dave Eggers
Thus apocalypses set an audience's space within the context of a larger, invisible world, and they set the audience's time in the context of a sacred history of God's activity and carefully defined plan.
~ Unknown
Other generations perceived a plethora of swords hanging over their heads. But generally what they feared were shadows, for neither they nor their gods could actually end the world. Fate might reap an individual, a family, or even a whole nation, but not the entire world. Not then. We, in the mid-twenty-first century, are the first to look up at a sword we ourselves forged, and know, with absolute certainty, it is real...
~ David Brin
The best way to describe the sonic environment at the '98 CES is: Imagine that the apocalypse took the form of a cocktail party.
~ David Foster Wallace
La amenaza ovni Esa última frase fue interpretada por el clero medieval como un anuncio de que el mundo tocaba a su fin, y fue general la desilusión cuando llegó el lunes y todos tuvieron que volver a trabajar.
~ Woody Allen
Chritians' experience of persecution and their consequent hostility to the Roman Empire found its most passionate expression in the pages of the Apocalypse. Rome is Babylon, the great mother of harlots, drunken with the blood of the Saints and the blood of the martyrs of Jesus, the Empire the kingdom of the Beast which seeks to destroy the Church.
~ Unknown
Deus, o que nos prometeis em troca de morrer? Pois o céu e o inferno nós já os conhecemos - cada um de nós em segredo quase de sonho já viveu um pouco o próprio apocalipse. E a própria morte.
~ Clarice Lispector
A man I barely knew told me, "When the grid goes down, the mythical creatures return.
~ Unknown
a reader of the Daily Mail brings it down to earth: "Only the 'elite' will go. The rest of us will be left to die.
~ Clive Hamilton
Some said the world would end in 1533. Last year had its adherents too. Why not this year? There is always somebody ready to claim that these are the end times, and nominate his neighbor as the Antichrist.
~ Hilary Mantel