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Quotes About Apocalypse

Apocalypse is a frame of mind." [Nicodemus] said then. "A belief. A surrender to inevitability. It is a despair for the future. It is the death of hope.
~ Jim Butcher, Death Masks
Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice.
~ Robert Frost
It is difficult to write a paradiso when all the superficial indications are that you ought to write an apocalypse.
~ Ezra Pound
This is the way the world endsThis is the way the world endsThis is the way the world endsNot with a bang but a whimper.
~ T.S. Eliot, The Hollow Men
This? I thought, after a twenty-year civil war: This? Armageddon I expected; but Armani I did not.
~ William Dalrymple
According to the Puranas, the Kali Yug is the last age before the world is destroyed by the 'fire of one thousand suns', after which the cycle reaches its conclusion and time momentarily stops, before the wheel turns again and a new cycle begins. Rather
~ William Dalrymple
And on the morning of July 18, an eight-year-old girl living in Bath chose to awaken her aunt, a devout believer in the prophecy, by screaming "Aunt, Aunt, the World's at an end!" The words so startled the poor woman that she fell into a coma, and remained insensate throughout the following day.
~ William K. Klingaman
Civilization could not be said to have truly ended until there were no restaurants left.
~ William Kowalski
About the only thing we can imagine is catastrophe.
~ David Graeber
We won't be signing off until the world ends. We'll be on, and we will cover the end of the world, live, and that will be our last event . . . we'll play 'Nearer, My God, to Thee' before we sign off.
~ Ted Turner
God's judgement begins to fall on the Earth.
~ Greg Laurie
Then you'd better listen, because me sounding like Bronte is one of the signs of the apocalypse-and if the end fo the world is coming, good deeds could earn you Judgment day brownie points.
~ Neal Shusterman
Imagine the amazing good fortune of the generation that gets to see the end of the world. This is as marvelous as being there in the beginning.
~ Jean Baudrillard
'Legion' was a lot of fun to shoot. It was a real unique apocalypse scenario that takes place in a diner out in the desert. Very much like a drive-in B-movie, but in a good way.
~ Dennis Quaid
Post-apocalyptic novels tell you that in the future there is some great war. I would tell you that most cops say that it's going on right now.
~ Lisa Gardner
History takes place between the Fall and the Apocalypse, with a narrow escape route called Salvation.
~ Mason Cooley
There has yet to be a human to survive a span of history without at least one end of the world.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
When the end comes, I hope it's as strange as that. I hope that the sky tears open and the world is washed with colors that we've never seen before.
~ Joey Comeau
You probably found 'How to Survive a Robot Uprising' in the humor section. Let's just hope that is where it belongs.
~ Daniel H. Wilson
Anticipating the end of the world is humanity's oldest passtime
~ David Mitchell
I can't watch TV longer than five minutes without praying for nuclear holocaust.
~ Bill Hicks
We get to see it! January 1st, 2000! We get to see... all those fundamentalist preachers having to do their backpedaling when the Armageddon doesn't occur.
~ David Cross
I bought some Armageddon cheese today, and it said on the packet 'Best Before End...'
~ Tim Vine
Wisdom of the Ages: "Soylent Green" No matter how many times I see that movie, I still get a hankerin' for a Big Mac.
~ Matthew Heines