Apocalypse proverbs

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◆ In her mind's eye she saw it, saw it all at last: the rolling armies and the flames of battle; the graves and pits and dying cries of a hundred million souls; the spreading darkness, like a black wing stretching over the earth; the last, bitter hours of cruelty and sorrow, and the terrible, final flights; death's great dominion over all, and, at the last, empty cities, becalmed by the silence of a hundred years. Already these things were coming to pass.

- Justin Cronin98

◆ The guns reminded me that this was just an attempt to punch holes in the darkness that enveloped us now.

- Michael Poeltl98

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

- Isabella Olivia Ellis98

◆ On the day the world is blown up, the playwright whose show opened the night before will be leafing past the news section of the Times to find his review--as he ascends through the stratosphere, oblivious.

- Arthur Miller98

◆ Sometimes you have to do something ugly so that something beautiful can grow.

- Cedric Nye98

◆ The truly apocalyptic view of the world is that things do not repeat themselves. It isn't absurd, e.g., to believe that the age of science and technology is the beginning of the end for humanity; that the idea of great progress is delusion, along with the idea that the truth will ultimately be known; that there is nothing good or desirable about scientific knowledge and that mankind, in seeking it, is falling into a trap. It is by no means obvious that this is not how things are.

- Ludwig Wittgenstein98

◆ My Manager forced me to put my beetle in my own ear, a clear waste and an act that gave me nightmares: of a burning city through which giant carnivorous lizards prowled, eating survivors off of balconies. In one particularly vivid moment, I stood on a ledge as the jaws closed in, heat-swept, and tinged with the smell of rotting flesh. Beetles intended for the tough, tight minds of children should not be used by adults. We still remember a kinder, gentler world.

- Jeff VanderMeer98

◆ I once fed a dog-fight operator to the dogs he had abused for so long, and do you want to know something? It felt so good. It was justice, girl. The fucking law never gave a shit about a victim, but justice is all heart.

- Cedric Nye98

◆ When she had died, his anchor was gone and the world had burned from his untethered insanity.

- Cedric Nye98

◆ No amount of expertly choreographed PR could prevail, in the end, against Armageddon. It strolled over the barricades and took its pleasure.

- M.R. Carey98

◆ The only true dead are those who have been forgotten.

- Jason S. Hornsby98

◆ 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 Necole98

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

- Jettie Necole98

◆ 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 Necole98

◆ 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. Stephenson98