143 Quotes About Collapse

Someone once told me his idea for surviving a crash of civilization was to be a lone wolf, heading for the hills, with his rifle and knife, living off the land. "Nowadays, I'm more interested in staying behind and helping others," he said, "like after Hurricane Katrina. Coming together and rebuilding something that can last.""How about BEFORE a disaster?" I asked. "Even better.

The nation was cracking under the weight of bloated modernity and all the patches pasted onto its excessive and malfunctioning hypercomplexity, and people were bewildered by the strange glitches, failures and shortages. Going forward, nothing would really work anymore as it was designed to, yet the hope and expectation that it would all magically recover dominated the chatter in the rare moments when people could step back from their frantic lives and share a meal or a drink.

all that was left to me was certain images and all of them spoke to me of the collapse of a cruel world and the slow construction in its stead of another world, equally cruel.

What fascinates me is not so much humanity's engulfment in darkness, but what kind of culture we will construct from the rubble of this one.

It is low in the index, and probably it makes sense to collapse the dual-listed structure.

Water pressure is very high on these earth-made dams and there are more in danger of collapse as the floods last a long time and the levels are decreasing very slowly.

save the peace process from collapse and transform the situation.

If we fail in in our levy attempt, we will lose our progress. We will likely slide into a near total collapse of this school system.

I thought he was going to collapse out there.