532 Quotes About Apocalypse

Songs remain. They last...A song can last long after the events and the people in it are dust and dreams and gone. That's the power of songs.

I sat in the dark and thought: There’s no big apocalypse. Just an endless procession of little ones.

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.

The last to fall were the buildings, distant and solemn, the gravestones for an entire world.

…So when the last and dreadful hourThis crumbling pageant shall devour,The trumpet shall be heard on high,The dead shall live, the living die,And Music shall untune the sky

This guy is funny. But is he safe? And how much is that worth when the world itself has ceased to exist?

Thank God for imminent doomsday.

Should the whole frame of nature round him break,In ruin and confusion hurled,He, unconcerned, would hear the mighty crack,And stand secure amidst a falling world.

But I would argue that when our light goes out, it will be Earth's greatest tragedy, because while I know humans are prone to grandiosity, I also think we are by far the most interesting thing that ever happened to Earth.