Quotes About Apocalypse

The roar of laughter at civilization's end.

Marsilia had just apologized to me. Hell must have been experiencing some climate change.

The world's ending. —Maybe sometimes it has to.

Don't get me wrong, magic is cool. But a nervous mother singing to her child at night while something moves quietly through the dark outside her house. That's a story. Handled properly, it's more dramatic than any apocalypse or goblin army could ever be.

Things are changing at a speed we never dreamed. We'll be talking nuclear war. Pesticides will be a food group. No song birds, no wildflowers. Nothing but collapsing hives and lines of the rich getting ready to board a ship for a night on the moon.

I knew now that the end of the world was coming not from the future, but the past.

Took the end of the world to make us kings for a day.

On this side were only low hisses, a ticking and chirping, a simmering crackle like a million crickets, hellfire crickets, singing of apocalypse and char.

And when the Lamb opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature say, “Come!”

And when the Lamb opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature say, “Come!” Then I looked and saw a black horse, and its rider held in his hand a pair of scales.

Then I looked and saw a pale green horse. Its riderís name was Death, and Hades followed close behind. And they were given authority over a fourth of the earth, to kill by sword, by famine, by plague, and by the beasts of the earth.

And when I saw the Lamb open the sixth seal, there was a great earthquake, and the sun became black like sackcloth of goat hair, and the whole moon turned blood red,

The sky receded like a scroll being rolled up, and every mountain and island was moved from its place.

Then the second angel sounded his trumpet, and something like a great mountain burning with fire was thrown into the sea. A third of the sea turned to blood,

And out of the smoke, locusts descended on the earth, and they were given power like that of the scorpions of the earth.

And the locusts looked like horses prepared for battle, with something like crowns of gold on their heads, and faces like the faces of men.

They had hair like that of women, and teeth like those of lions.

They had tails with stingers like scorpions, which had the power to injure people for five months.

saying to the sixth angel with the trumpet, “Release the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates.”

So the four angels who had been prepared for this hour and day and month and year were released to kill a third of mankind.

And the number of mounted troops was two hundred million; I heard their number.

A third of mankind was killed by the three plagues of fire, smoke, and sulfur that proceeded from their mouths.

Then another sign appeared in heaven: a huge red dragon with seven heads, ten horns, and seven royal crowns on his heads.

The beast I saw was like a leopard, with the feet of a bear and the mouth of a lion. And the dragon gave the beast his power and his throne and great authority.