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He walked out in the gray light and stood and he saw for a brief moment the absolute truth of the world. The cold relentless circling of the intestate earth. Darkness implacable. The blind dogs of the sun in their running. The crushing black vacuum of the universe. And somewhere two hunted animals trembling like ground-foxes in their cover. Borrowed time and borrowed world and borrowed eyes with which to sorrow it. .Cormac McCarthy
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You're Hell's Angels, then? What chapter are you from?'' R E V E L A T I O N S. CHAPTER SIX.Neil Gaiman
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Death and Famine and War and Pollution continued biking towards Tadfield. And Grievous Bodily Harm, Cruelty To Animals, Things Not Working Properly Even After You've Given Them A Good Thumping but secretly No Alcohol Lager, and Really Cool People travelled with them.Neil Gaiman
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What if nobody showed up at Armageddon?C.R. Strahan
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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
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We need to be fit and ready for anything that might come our way.Aaron B. Powell
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Sometimes you have to do something ugly so that something beautiful can grow.Cedric Nye
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The world is a goddamned evil place, the strong prey on the weak, the rich on the poor; I’ve given up hope that there is a God that will save us all. How am I supposed to believe that there’s a heaven and a hell when all I see now is hell.Aaron B. Powell
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When one door closes, a window opens and then zombies pile in and bite you in the ass.Unknown
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I like living in my head because in there, everyone is kind and innocent. Once you start integrating yourself into the world, you realize that people are nasty, mean creatures. They're worse than zombies. People try to crush your soul and destroy your happiness, but zombies just want to have a little nibble of your brain.J. Cornell Michel
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Even so have I given the womb of the earth to those that be sown in it in their times.Compton Gage
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They that be born in the strength of youth are of one fashion, and they that are born in the time of age, when the womb fail, are otherwise.Compton Gage
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Seeing thou hast now given me the way, I will proceed to speak before thee: for our mother, of whom thou hast told me that she is young, draw now nigh unto age.Compton Gage
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Like as a young child may not bring forth the things that belong to the aged, even so have I disposed the world which I created.Compton Gage
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What betrayed me? Was it my heart? Or my Soul?Compton Gage
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Stand up upon the right side, and I shall expound the similitude unto thee.Compton Gage
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Consider with thyself; as the rain is more than the drops, and as the fire is greater than the smoke; but the drops and the smoke remain behind: so the quantity which is past did more exceed.Compton Gage
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As for the tokens whereof thou ask me, I may tell thee of them in part: but as touching thy life, I am not sent to shew thee.Compton Gage
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Iniquity shall be increased above that which now thou see, or that thou hast heard long ago.Compton Gage
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The land, that thou see now to have root, shall thou see wasted suddenly.Compton Gage
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If the most High grant thee to live, thou shall see after the third trumpet that the sun shall suddenly shine again in the night, and the moon thrice in the day:Compton Gage
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Blood shall drop out of wood, and the stone shall give his voice, and the people shall be troubled:Compton Gage
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He shall rule, whom they look not for that dwell upon the earth, and the fowls shall take their flight away together:Compton Gage
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The Sodomy sea shall cast out fish, and make a noise in the night, which many have not known: but they shall all hear the voice thereof.Compton Gage
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There shall be confusion also in many places, and the fire shall be oft sent out again, and the wild beasts shall change their places, and menstruate women shall bring forth monsters:Compton Gage
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Salt waters shall be found in the sweet, and all friends shall destroy one another; then shall wit hide itself, and understanding withdraw itself into his secret chamber-Compton Gage
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One land also shall ask another, and say, ‘Is righteousness that makes a man righteous gone through thee?’ And it shall say, ‘No.Compton Gage
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At the same time shall men hope, but nothing obtain: they shall labor, but their ways shall not prosper.Compton Gage
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To shew thee such tokens I have leave; and if thou wilt pray again, and weep as now, and fast even days, thou shall hear yet greater things.Compton Gage
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An extreme fearfulness moves through all your body, and your mind is troubled more.Compton Gage
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After seven days of fasten so it was, that the thoughts of my heart were very grievous unto me- and my soul recovered the spirit of understanding.Compton Gage
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Hear me, and I will instruct thee; hearken to the thing that I say, and I shall tell thee more.Compton Gage
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Thou art sore troubled in mind for the people in the world’s sake: loves thou that people better than he that made them?Compton Gage
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Number me the things that are not yet come- gather me together the dross that are scattered abroad- make me the flowers green again that are withered- Open me the places that are closed, and bring me forth the winds that in them are shut up- shew me the image of a voice: and then I will declare to thee the thing that thou labor to know.Compton Gage
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O Lord that bear rule, who may know these things, but he that had not his dwelling with men?Compton Gage
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As for you, you're unwise: how may you then speak of these things whereof thou ask you?Compton Gage
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Like as thou canst do none of these things that I have spoken of, even so canst thou not find out my judgment, or in the end the love that I have promised unto my people.Compton Gage
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Behold, O Lord, yet art thou nigh unto them that be reserved till the end: and what shall they do that have been before me, or we that be now, or they that shall come after us?Compton Gage
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I will liken my judgment unto a ring: like as there is no slackness of the last, even so there is no swiftness of the first.Compton Gage
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Could thou not make those that have been made, and be now, and that are for to come, at once; that thou might shew thy judgement the sooner?Compton Gage
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As thou hast said unto thy servant, that thou, which gives life to all, hast given life at once to the creature that thou hast created, and the creature bare it: even so it might now also bear them that now be present at once.Compton Gage
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Ask the womb of a woman, and say unto her, If thou bring forth children, why dost thou it not together, but one after another? pray her therefore to bring forth ten children at once.Compton Gage
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She cannot: but must do it by distance of time.Compton Gage
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How my adventures become your sins?Compton Gage
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Go thy way, weigh me the weight of the fire, or measure me the blast of the wind, or call me again the day that is past.Compton Gage
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What man is able to do that, that thou should ask such things of me?Compton Gage
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If I should ask thee how great dwellings are in the midst of the sea, or how many springs are in the beginning of the deep, or how many springs are above the firmament, or which are the outgoings of paradise: Peradventure thou would say unto me, ‘I never went down into the deep, nor as yet into hell, neither did I ever climb up into heaven.Compton Gage
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Nevertheless now have I asked thee but only of the fire and wind, and of the day where-through thou hast passed, and of things from which thou canst not be separated, and yet canst thou give me no answer of them.Compton Gage
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Thine own things, and such as are grown up with thee, canst thou not know; How should thy vessel then be able to comprehend the way of the Highest, and, the world being now outwardly corrupted to understand the corruption that is evident in my sight?Compton Gage
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It were better that we were not at all, than that we should live still in wickedness, and to suffer, and not to know wherefore.Compton Gage
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I went into a forest into a plain, and the trees took counsel- And said, Come, let us go and make war against the sea that it may depart away before us, and that we may make us more woods. The floods of the sea also in like manner took counsel, and said, Come, let us go up and subdue the woods of the plain, that there also we may make us another country. The thought of the wood was in vain, for the fire came and consumed it. The thought of the floods of the sea came likewise to nought, for the sand stood up and stopped them. If thou wart judge now betwixt these two, whom would thou begin to justify? or whom would thou condemn? .Compton Gage
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Verily it is a foolish thought that they both have devised, for the ground is given unto the wood, and the sea also had its place to bear its floods.Compton Gage
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Thou hast given a right judgment, but why judge thou not thyself also?Compton Gage
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For like as the ground is given unto the wood, and the sea to his floods: even so they that dwell upon the earth may understand nothing but that which is upon the earth: and he that dwell above the heavens may only understand the things that are above the height of the heavens.Compton Gage
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I beseech thee, O Lord, let me have understanding: For it was not my mind to be curious of the high things, but of such as pass by us daily.Compton Gage
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Wherefore the present age is given up as a reproach to the heathen, and for what cause the people whom thou hast loved is given over unto ungodly nations?!Compton Gage
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Why the law of our forefathers are brought to nought, and the written covenants come to none effect-Compton Gage
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We pass away out of the world as grasshoppers, and our life is astonishment and fear, and we are not worthy to obtain mercy.Compton Gage
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What will he then do unto his name whereby we are called? ...of these things have I asked.Compton Gage
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The more thou search, the more thou shall marvel.Compton Gage
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The more thou search, the more thou shall marvel; for the world hast fast to pass away-Compton Gage
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The world hast fast to pass away- And cannot comprehend the things that are promised to the righteous in time to come: for this world is full of unrighteousness and infirmities.Compton Gage
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As concerning the things whereof thou asked me, I will tell thee; for the evil is sown, but the destruction thereof is not yet come.Compton Gage
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If therefore that which is sown be not turned upside down, and if the place where the evil is sown passes not away, then cannot it come that is sown with good?Compton Gage
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The grain of evil seed had been sown in the heart of Adam from the beginning, and how much ungodliness had it brought up unto this time? and how much shall it yet bring forth until the time of threshing come?Compton Gage
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Ponder now by thyself, how great fruit of wickedness the grain of evil seed had brought forth. And when the ears shall be cut down, which are without number, how great a floor shall they fill?Compton Gage
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How, and when shall these things come to pass? wherefore are our years few and evil?Compton Gage
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Do not thou hasten above the most Highest: for thy haste is in vain to be above him, for thou hast much exceeded.Compton Gage
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Did not the souls also of the righteous ask question of these things in their chambers, saying, "How long shall I hope on this fashion?" when cometh the fruit of the floor of our reward?Compton Gage
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O Lord that bear rule, even we all are full of impiety. And for our sakes peradventure it is that the floors of the righteous are not filled, because of the sins of them that dwell upon the earth.Compton Gage
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Go thy way to a woman with child, and ask of her when she had fulfilled her nine months, if her womb may keep the birth any longer within her.Compton Gage
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In the grave the chambers of souls are like the womb of a woman: For like as a woman that travails make haste to escape the necessity of the travail: even so do these places haste to deliver those things that are committed unto them.Compton Gage
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From the beginning, look, what thou desires to see, it shall be shew thee.Compton Gage
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If I have found favor in thy sight, and if it be possible, and if I be meet therefore, shew me then whether there be more to come than is past, or more past than is to come.Compton Gage
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The greatest futility! says the congregator, "The greatest futility! Everything is futile! " What does a person gain from all his hard work- At which he toils under the sun? A generation goes and another cometh forth, but the earth remains the same.Compton Gage
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As thou know not what is the way of the spirit, nor how the bones do grow in the womb of her that is with child: even so thou know not the works of what makes all.Compton Gage
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In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thine hand: for thou know not whether shall prosper, either this or that, or whether they both shall be alike good.Compton Gage
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Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun: But if a man live many years, and rejoice in them all; yet let him remember the days of darkness; for they shall be many. And all that cometh is vanity.Compton Gage
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These be they that have put off the mortal clothing, and put on the immortal, and have confessed the name of God: now are they crowned, and receive palms.Compton Gage
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Go thy way, and tell my people, the people of thy Lord God what manner of things, and how great wonders of the Lord thy God, thou hast seen.Compton Gage
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And yet their reward appear not, and their labor had no fruit: for I have gone here and there through the heathen, and I see that they flow in wealth, and think not upon thy commandments.Compton Gage
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Weigh thou therefore their wickedness now in the balance, and theirs also that dwell the world; and so shall thy name no where be found anymore.Compton Gage
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Thy heart had gone too far in this world, and think thou to comprehend the way of the most High?Compton Gage
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Don't wake me for the end of the world unless it has very good special effects.Roger Zelazny
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And starward drifts the stricken world, Lone in unalterable gloom Dead, with a universe for tomb, Dark, and to vaster darkness whirled.(“ The Testimony of the Suns”)George Sterling
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I want you here. I don't care if it's a hundred degrees and every blade of grass dies. Without you, none of that matters to me.Kami Garcia
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In her mind's eye she saw it, saw it all at last: the rolling armies and the flames of battle; the graves and pits and dying cries of a hundred million souls; the spreading darkness, like a black wing stretching over the earth; the last, bitter hours of cruelty and sorrow, and the terrible, final flights; death's great dominion over all, and, at the last, empty cities, becalmed by the silence of a hundred years. Already these things were coming to pass.Justin Cronin
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Till her appointed course be run; Till on the darkness faint her breath Flown to the silent void, and DeathSit crowned upon the ashen sun.(“ The Testimony of the Suns”)George Sterling
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This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper.T.S. Eliot
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At the round earth's imagined corners blow Your trumpets, angels, and arise, arise From death, you numberless infinities Of souls, and to your scattered bodies go ;All whom the flood did, and fire shall o'erthrow, All whom war, dea[r]th, age, agues, tyrannies, Despair, law, chance hath slain, and you, whose eyes Shall behold God, and never taste death's woe. But let them sleep, Lord, and me mourn a space ;For, if above all these my sins abound, ' Tis late to ask abundance of Thy grace, When we are there. Here on this lowly ground, Teach me how to repent, for that's as good As if Thou hadst seal'd my pardon with Thy blood.John Donne
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Have you ever thought what a God would be like who actually ordained and executed the cruelty that is in [the biblical Book of Revelation]? A holocaust of mankind. Yet so many of these Bible-men accept the idea without a second thought.C.J. Sansom
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Many [Tudor-era religious radicals] believed then, exactly as Christian fundamentalists do today, that they lived in the 'last days' before Armageddon and, again just as now, saw signs all around in the world that they took as certain proof that the Apocalypse was imminent. Again like fundamentalists today, they looked on the prospect of the violent destruction of mankind without turning a hair. The remarkable similarity between the first Tudor Puritans and the fanatics among today's Christian fundamentalists extends to their selective reading of the Bible, their emphasis on the Book of Revelation, their certainty of their rightness, even to their phraseology. Where the Book of Revelation is concerned, I share the view of Guy, that the early church fathers released something very dangerous on the world when, after much deliberation, they decided to include it in the Christian canon."].C.J. Sansom
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Cities are more than the sum of their infrastructure. They transcend brick and mortar, concrete and steel. They're the vessels into which human knowledge is poured.Rick Yancey
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A little while, their hunger unfulfilled, The mothlike worlds flit 'round the guttering sun.(" Ephemera")George Sterling
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Sure, at some level scientists know nanobots will destroy mankind. They just can't resist seeing how it happens.Cracked.com
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Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds. (quoting the Bhagavad-Gita after witnessing the first Nuclear explosion.)J. Robert Oppenheimer
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Their conversation ceased abruptly with the entry of an oddly-shaped man whose body resembled a certain vegetable. He was a thickset fellow with calloused and jaundiced skin and a patch of brown hair, a frizzy upheaval. We will call him Bell Pepper. Bell Pepper sidled up beside The Drippy Man and looked at the grilled cheese in his hand. The Drippy Man, a bit uncomfortable at the heaviness of the gaze, politely apologized and asked Bell Pepper if he would like one. “Why is one of your legs fatter than the other?” asked Bell Pepper. The Drippy Man realized Bell Pepper was not looking at his sandwich but towards the inconsistency of his leg sizes. “You always get your kicks pointing out defects?” retorted The Drippy Man. “Just curious. Never seen anything like it before.” “I was raised not to feel shame and hide my legs in baggy pants.” “So you flaunt your deformity by wearing short shorts?” “Like you flaunt your pockmarks by not wearing a mask?” Bell Pepper backed away, kicking wide the screen door, making an exit to a porch over hanging a dune of sand that curved into a jagged upward jab of rock. “He is quite sensitive, ” commented The Dry Advisor. “Who is he?” “A fellow who once manipulated the money in your wallet but now curses the fellow who does.Jeff Phillips
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If a boy can manage to have coffee with me during the apocalypse, I know he cares. There’s not a speck of doubt in my mind. He must care.Caroline George
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After the end of the world, there is a world. Life doesn’t stop. It changes. And it changes me.Caroline George
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If it happens that the human race doesn't make it, then the fact that we were here once will not be altered, that once upon a time we peopled this astonishing blue planet, and wondered intelligently at everything about it and the other things who lived here with us on it, and that we celebrated the beauty of it in music and art, architecture, literature, and dance, and that there were times when we approached something godlike in our abilities and aspirations. We emerged out of depthless mystery, and back into mystery we returned, and in the end the mystery is all there is.James Howard Kunstler