Apocalypse Quotes

It is also the irrational instinct of religionism, the vague yearning for something to worship—a reflection or shadow of the true devotional principle—which prompts men to project a subjective image of the lower, personal mind, and to endow it with human attributes, and then to claim to receive revelations from it; and this—the image of the Beast, or unspiritual mind,—is their anthropomorphic God, a fabulous monster the worship of which has ever prompted men to fanaticism and persecution, and has inflicted untold misery and dread upon the masses of mankind, as well as physical torture and death in hideous forms upon the many martyrs who have refused to bend the knee to this Gorgonean phantom of the beast-mind of man. Truly, where the worshipers of this image of the Beast predominate, the man whose brow and hand are unbranded by this superstition, who neither thinks nor acts in accordance with it, suffers ostracism if not virulent persecution.

~ James Morgan Pryse

Wasn’t allowed to have pets. I killed my pet cockroach when it crawled into my ear.

~ Katherine Mcintyre

A sullied green “S” stood out on a graying backdrop that made for a road marker up there. We called it the wasteland.

~ Katherine Mcintyre

How would you rather die? she snapped. Hiding under your bed or riding Thunder Mountain?

~ Rick Yancey

Complacency kills. Paranoia is the reason I’m still alive.

~ D.j. Molles

Then she was there in the doorway of the ambulance at his feet. She jumped up like a lion, then stood up on two feet like a human. Her hair was thick and full. She had a mouthful of giant teeth. He could see four pronounced canines in the front and strong claws where her fingernails had been. Her strong body was shriveled and emaciated with her ribs and hip bones sticking out prominently like a concentration camp victim. Her stench was overpowering, like a deer carcass left to rot on the side of the road.

~ Joseph M. Chiron

St John from the book of The Revelation “He also forced everyone, small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on his right hand or on his forehead, so that no one could buy or sell unless he had the mark.

~ Joseph M. Chiron

In the front was a man he knew only as “Samson,” a big man that from all appearances was a former juice head gym rat with exquisitely defined muscles, stripped to the waist and carrying a huge nine foot cross hewn from raw timber and held together with nails and twine. Behind him in a rough line were the flagellates: five men also stripped to the waist, holding various chains, heavy corded ropes, and one with what looked like a leather whip from the S&M sex shop. They beat their backs as they slowly walked down the center of the street.

~ Joseph M. Chiron

Biblical eschatology fundamentally challenges the official scientific idea that the universe will end in a violent heat death, and instead that the cosmos will be set free from its decadence. It calls us to consider the sobering similarities between ancient pagan cosmologies (creation began with war & violence between the gods) and modern naturalism as a nihilistic, philosophical worldview (all will end in astronomical war & violence). Instead, the revelation (apocalypse) of the Lamb is that God created out of love and love will win in the end.

~ David D. Flowers

One could speculate that lichens would be among the last inhabitants to succumb on a dying earth at some distant point in the future.

~ Steven L. Stephenson

Thanks, for saving me.”“I didn’t have a choice,” he said softly.“Everyone has a choice.”“Then mine was easy.”“Easy?”He chuckled. “Olivia, my choice will always be simple when it comes to you...

~ Jettie Necole

Everyone is dangerous in here, can’t you see that?” he warned.

~ Jettie Necole

He whispered for her ears only as he listed off the facts: “Military are allowed a larger portion. Being second in command restricts me from no room and giving orders is what I’ve been hired to do. As far as ignoring you, that is not the case. I’ve checked up on you, and you are doing well. My intentions have never been to harm you or insult you. You actually are quite breathtaking in that dress and that is the problem, you need not draw attention to yourself. You are my responsibility and the answer to ‘why’ will always be because I have to.

~ Jettie Necole

No, we’ll live. I promise you that.” He’d said it in a way that she couldn’t doubt, the same way he’d snapped his soldiers back into their rank on the helicopter. His words had been soft yet firm, and she wanted to believe in him as his men had, with confidence.

~ Jettie Necole

If only he’d taken one look at her and seen that they were soul mates, swept her off her feet and taken her to Las Vegas to be married in the same little chapel where Britney Spears had been. She laughed to herself. It would probably have lasted just as long, once her mother found out.

~ Jettie Necole

We’re in an underground vault, and here’s my first order: You’re going to do everything I tell you to do.

~ Jettie Necole

She’d been caught up in that image, that flash, man’s nuclear stamp, and had not really understood what happened after.

~ Jettie Necole

You think you’re prepared. You think you’ve done everything you’re supposed to, study hard, work hard, keep yourself out of trouble, and then—whoosh! Something arrives out of the blue that you never saw coming. Something you never even imagined. Something that’ll knock your little world off its axis. Something that’ll either change your life for the better, or end it forever. Chaos.

~ James Michael Rice

Olivia responded with confidence, “You’re the military. You’re in charge. Why would I be scared?

~ Jettie Necole

A giant grin, accompanied by a slight chuckle, had been the grand finale to any of his most successful jokes, while the less impressive resulted in a raise of both his brows, which he followed with a semi-satisfied smirk. The least entertaining attempt at humor would get a shrug and a short grimace that reflected he too understood he’d just bombed. Olivia was acquainted with them all now, considering all the time they’d spent together, the most she’d spent with any other individual inside the vault. Olivia had become accustomed to his infectious humor, though it hadn’t always been so. Especially, when they’d first met.

~ Jettie Necole

Things are different here. There will be rules and regulations that you are not used to. You will have to follow them. All of them.

~ Jettie Necole

It’s not a war. It’s an annihilation,” he’d mumbled low for her ears only. She’d been unable to respond, only focusing on her own breath and marveling that she in fact was still breathing.

~ Jettie Necole

It must be one of life’s little jokes... how we take everything, even life itself, for granted. We waste our childhoods wishing for what we don’t have, longing for the future, dreaming of ways to speed the time so we can hurry up and see the world. And in our later years, we’d give anything just to slow things down and go back to what we once had.

~ James Michael Rice

Hardly has the universe stretched its wings to spanWhen it gathers to egg once more

~ J. Aleksandr Wootton

She’d found that holding on to him was the easiest and simplest thing to do, not thinking about the bomb, not thinking about the people it killed, not thinking about her family, and not thinking about whether or not she would die. Instead, she’d held tightly around his neck, burying her face in his shoulder. She’d thought the entire world was coming to an end and holding on to him seemed to be the only thing she wanted to acknowledge as real.

~ Jettie Necole

Most kids grow up leaving something out for Santa at Christmas time when he comes down the chimney. I used to make presents for the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.

~ Jeanette Winterson

But this was not quite the right kraken apocalypse.

~ China Miéville

Everyone should be comfy during the apocalypse.

~ J. Cornell Michel

She knew better than to challenge a man who spent his life preparing for the apocalypse.

~ Anthony Marra

We grab handfuls of bottles and climb up onto the roof of the house. She stumbles and her foot slips into the gutter sopped with dead leaves. I grab her wrists and pull her clear – sure, she's not the person I'd choose to do this with, but she's my only option so I might as well be nice. Plus I don't want her to drop the vodka.

~ Kirsty Logan

The world may be about to end, but if it's going to end, we'll goddamn well give it our best shot first. And this is the place to do it.

~ Alex Irvine

It wasn't aliens that first made us gear up for war, it was our fellow humans.

~ Rick Yancey

Time for the world to end.

~ Rick Yancey

The hugest changes were the ones that could not be seen – that’s where the real apocalypse lay: in people’s hearts, their souls, their beings.

~ Dianna Hardy

It was the hubris of each generation to think this anew, to think that their time was special, that all things would come to an end with them.

~ Hugh Howey

He's named you heir apparent to the Apocalypse. Congratulations.

~ Rachel Caine

If anything, global response to the Rising only confirmed something that many Australians had quietly believed for quite some time: If forced to live in Australia for a year, most of the world’s population would simply curl up in a fetal ball and die of terror.

~ Mira Grant

Lovely sight, the Apocalypse! But absurdity, without limits? No Sir! there have to be certain limits...

~ Louis-Ferdinand Céline

The world had seen so many Ages: the Age of Enlightenment; of Reformation; of Reason. Now, at last, the Age of Desire. And after this, an end to Ages; an end, perhaps, to everything.

~ Clive Barker

If I have to face the end of human existence, I want to look totally smoking when it happens. Now shut the hell up.

~ Angeline Trevena