In their 2012 book Megacatastrophes!
David Darling and Dirk-Schulze-Makuch rank the likelihood of “Nine Strange Ways
the World Could End.” Least likely? Radical climate change, whether caused by
Mankind or things like solar flares. The
most likely danger, the thing to lose the most sleep over? A pandemic, whether from medicine-resistant
new bugs or old standbys like the plague or Ebola.
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.
― T S
Eliot, “The Hollow Men”
Don’t wake me for the end of the world unless it has very good
special effects.
―
Roger Zelazny
It happened that a fire broke out backstage in a theater. The
clown came out to inform the public. They thought it was a jest and applauded.
He repeated his warning. They shouted even louder. So I think the world will
come to an end amid the general applause from all the wits who believe that it
is a joke.
―
Søren Kierkegaard
Sure, at some level scientists know nanobots will destroy mankind.
They just can’t resist seeing how it happens.
―
Cracked.com
Apocalypse has come and gone. We’re just grubbing in the ashes.
―
Samuel R Delany, Dhalgren
What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a
butterfly.
―
Richard Bach
I told my therapist I was having nightmares about nuclear
explosions. He said don’t worry it’s not the end of the world.
― Jay London
It isn’t necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or
ice—there are two other possibilities: One is paperwork, and the other is
nostalgia.
―
Frank Zappa
Not only does God play dice, but he sometimes throws them where
they cannot be seen.
―
Stephen Hawking
Everything has to come to an end, sometime.
― L
Frank Baum, The Marvelous Land of Oz
I’m against endings. I’m against things being over. Being finished
should be stopped! I am Comrade-in-Chief of going on. I support furthermore and
etcetera!
― Saša Stanišić
Somehow the world never seems to end before your homework is due.
― P J O’Rourke
We are living on the brink of the apocalypse, but the world is
asleep.
―
Joel C. Rosenberg
I do not know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but
World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
―
Albert Einstein
Survival kit contents check. In them you’ll find: one .45 caliber
automatic; two boxes of ammunition; four days’ concentrated emergency rations;
one drug issue containing: antibiotics, morphine, vitamin pills, pep pills,
sleeping pills, tranquilizer pills; one miniature combination Russian phrase
book and Bible; one hundred dollars in rubles; one hundred dollars in gold;
nine packs of chewing gum; one issue of prophylactics; three lipsticks; three
pair a nylon stockings. Shoot, a fella could have a pretty good weekend in
Vegas with all that stuff.
― Dr
Strangelove
There’s something attractive about all those people being gone,
about wandering in a depopulated world, scrounging cans of Campbell’s pork and
beans, defending one’s family from marauders. But some secret part of us thinks
it would be good to survive. All those other folks will die. That’s what
after-the-bomb stories are all about.
―
John Varley
Don’t worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already
tomorrow in Australia.
―
Charles M. Schulz
Apocalypse does not point to a fiery Armageddon but to the fact
that our ignorance and our complacency are coming to an end.
― Joseph
Campbell
I’m completely optimistic—I know the end is coming!
―
Lydia Lunch
Not even in the face of Armageddon. Never compromise.
―
Rorschach
