183 Quotes About End-of-the-world

The apocalypse didn't happen overnight. The world didn't end in a satisfying climax of explosive special effects. It was slow. It was boring. It was one little thing at a time. One moral compromise, one abandoned ideal, one more justified injustice. No dramatic wave of destruction sweeping across the world, just scattered spots of rot forming throughout the decades, seemingly isolated incidents until the moment they all merged.

Failure isn't the end of the world, nor is it a sign that you won't be capable of going on to do other things.

The question was not whether the world would end but how soon the end would come.

Hundert Meter entfernt tauchte der größte Tintenfisch auf, den Rincewind jemals gesehen hatte, schlug wild mit den Tentakeln und versank wieder in den reißenden Fluten ... Das Ende der Welt rückte näher.

Like almost every truly horrible thing that has ever happened in the history of our world, the end also began with a kiss.

Both sides had entered the war already weakened by the disease, and just as in 1918, armies propagated the contagion. Hospitals, already overfilled by flu victims, were unable to treat more than a fraction of the wounded. And yet the war raged on, pulling both countries and their neighbors back into the pre-industrial world. Little was left of modernity except for weapons.

I fell asleep to the sounds of the end of the world.

Let us be perfectly frank for a change. For practically everybody, the end of the world can’t come soon enough.

We are like earthworms that multiply until apocalypse.