Apocalyptic Quotes

• This is the way the world ends, not with a bang, but a whimper.

  T. S. Eliot

  Death, Poetry, Religion

  "The Hollow Men" l. 95 (1925)

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• She was one of those people who was born for the greatness of a single love, for exaggerated hatred, for apocalyptic vengance, and for the most sublime forms of heroism but she was unable to shape her fate to the dimensions of her amorous vocation, so it was lived out as something flat and gray trapped between her mother's sickroom walls, wretched tenements, and the tortured confessions with which this large, opulent, hot-blooded woman made for maternity, abundance, action, and ardor- was consuming herself.

  Isabel Allende

  Mother, Wall, Fate

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• If only I was as eloquent as Demosthenes, I would have to do no more than repeat a single word three times.

  Johann Georg Hamann

  Three, Single Word, Eloquent

  "Briefwechsel". "Briefwechsel" by Johann Georg Hamann, 1955-1975.

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• I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Funny, Wisdom

  Albert Einstein (2003). “Einstein's 1912 manuscript on the special theory of relativity”, George Braziller

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• The new century has brought on its own terrible dangers, which although not reaching the apocalyptic potential of the Cold War, still have the capacity to shake our world.

  Adam Schiff

  War, Our World, Cold

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• The level of outbreak is beyond anything we’ve seen - or even imagined.

  Tom Frieden

  Ebola, Levels, Outbreaks

  "CDC: ‘Window Is Closing’ on Containing Ebola" by Abby Haglage, www.thedailybeast.com. September 2, 2014.

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• Faith is one of the world's great evils, comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to eradicate.

  Richard Dawkins

  Mad Cow Disease, Evil, Religion

  "Is Science a Religion?". Humanist, www.skeptical-science.com. January/February 1997.

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• Todayart is moving in a direction of which our fathers would never even have dreamed.We stand before the new pictures as in a dream and we hear the apocalyptic horsemen in the air.

  Franz Marc

  Dream, Father, Moving

  1912 Subscription prospectus of the Blaue Reiter Almanac, Jan.

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• Americans are apocalyptic by nature. The reason why is that we've always had so much, so we live in deadly fear that people are going to take it away from us.

  Stephen King

  Fear, People, Reason Why

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• When forced to survive in an apocalyptic world, there are some characters that embrace their higher selves with some emerging as natural born leaders, and others succumb to their more base and primal selves and basically transform into savages.

  Laurie Holden

  Character, Self, Leader

  Source: collider.com

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• The Republican Party is becoming less and less like a traditional political party in a representative democracy and becoming more like an apocalyptic cult, or one of the intensely ideological authoritarian parties of 20th century Europe.

  Mike Lofgren

  Party, Europe, Political

  "Goodbye to All That: Reflections of a GOP Operative Who Left the Cult". www.truth-out.org. September 3, 2011.

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• If only I was as eloquent as Demosthenes, I would have to do no more than repeat a single word three times. Reason is language - Logos; I gnaw on this marrowbone and will gnaw myself to death over it. It is still always dark over these depths for me: I am still always awaiting an apocalyptic angel with a key to this abyss.

  Johann Georg Hamann

  Angel, Dark, Keys

  "Briefwechsel ('Correspondence')". Book edited by Arthur Henkel, Volume 5, p. 177, 1955 - 1975.

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• Every time you write a poem it’s apocalyptic. You’re revealing who you really are to yourself.

  Li-Young Lee

  Writing, Revealing

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• There is an apocalyptic view to this that is actually kind of appealing, which is the only way to kill big government is to let it kill itself. It's suicide by gluttony. Right now, the government is approaching Fat Elvis during those years in the '70s right before he croaked on the toilet seat. Basically ObamaCare is a huge tray of bacon and banana sandwiches. And it could happen in our lifetimes.

  Greg Gutfeld

  Suicide, Views, Years

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Uncovering secrets is apocalyptic in the simple sense (the Greek root means ‘an uncovering’). In this case, it lifts the shame covers. It allows articulation to enter where silence once ruled.

  Lewis Hyde

  Mean, Simple, Roots

  Lewis Hyde (2010). “Trickster Makes This World: Mischief, Myth and Art”, p.432, Macmillan

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• We need the stars... We need purpose! We need the image the Destiny to take root among the stars gives us of ourselves as a purposeful, growing species. We need to become the adult species that the Destiny can help us become! If we're to be anything other than smooth dinosaurs who evolve, specialize and die, we need the stars.... When we have no difficult, long-term purpose to strive toward, we fight each other. We destroy ourselves. We have these chaotic, apocalyptic periods of murderous craziness.

  Octavia Butler

  Stars, Fighting, Destiny

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• Teenagers. Everything is so apocalyptic.

  Kami Garcia

  Teenager

  Kami Garcia, Margaret Stohl (2010). “Beautiful Creatures”, p.206, Penguin UK

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• Texting is apocalyptic on some level. It's a reduction of things.

  Nick Cave

  Levels, Texting, Reduction

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• It is fashionable to wax apocalyptic about the threat to humanity posed by the AIDS virus, "mad cow" disease, and many others, but I think a case can be made that faith is one of the world's great evils, comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to eradicate.

  Richard Dawkins

  Thinking, Mad Cow Disease, Evil

  "Is Science a Religion?". Humanist, www.skeptical-science.com. January/February 1997.

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• Dude. Post-apocalyptic world. Who does job applications anymore?” “I do.” I squint at it, then him. “What are you paying me?” I angle. “Dude. Post-apocalyptic world. Who does money anymore.” I snicker. First sign of any sense of humor he’s shown. Then I remember where I am and why. I wad it up and throw it at him. It bounces off his chest.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Jobs, Doe, World

  Karen Marie Moning (2012). “Iced: Fever Series”, p.30, Delacorte Press

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• Capitalism will behave antisocially if it is profitable for it to do so, and that can now mean human devastation on an unimaginable scale. What used to be apocalyptic fantasy is today no more than sober realism.

  Terry Eagleton

  Mean, Devastation, Today

  "Why Marx Was Right". Book by Terry Eagleton, 2011.

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• I'm not a peak oil person. I'm not a biohazard apocalyptic kind of freak. I don't have a supply of weapons or gold bars under my house.

  Tim Hecker

  Oil, House, Gold

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I think my apocalyptic feelings went deeper than [heavily influenced by Reagan and AIDS]. I'm really at peace with how afraid I am.

  Michael Stipe

  Thinking, Feelings, Aids

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I never looked at Noah as an animal collector. I always thought of him as an apocalyptic character. I read everything I found about it and was surprised to find that in all religions there is the story of the flood, and that one "hero" saved the world. This proved that Noah and his Ark - were not a religious myth, and is evidence that humanity really went through the flood.

  Russell Crowe

  Religious, Hero, Character

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• ISIS is winning the propaganda war. They are recruiting people, including Americans, to join them, with the promise that they are joining this great apocalyptic movement that is going to defeat the West.

  Marco Rubio

  War, Winning, Isis

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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