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I can't believe that we have reached the end of everything. The red dust is frightening. The carbon ...

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Most kids grow up leaving something out for Santa at Christmas time when he comes down the chimney. ...

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Jeanette WintersonWhy Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

My Manager forced me to put my beetle in my own ear, a clear waste and an act that gave me nightmare...

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Thank God for imminent doomsday.

Apocalypse is a frame of mind." [Nicodemus] said then. "A belief. A surrender to inevitability. It i...

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At the round earth's imagined corners blowYour trumpets, angels, and arise, ariseFrom death, you num...

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…So when the last and dreadful hourThis crumbling pageant shall devour,The trumpet shall be heard on...

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John DrydenThe Major Works

Should the whole frame of nature round him break,In ruin and confusion hurled,He, unconcerned, would...

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

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The truly apocalyptic view of the world is that things do not repeat themselves. It isn’t absurd, e....

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This new world was a vicious, sleek world made of street lights and tight jeans, sharp smiles and fa...

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But through years of myth-making and fear-sowing, Christianity meta-morphosed antichrists into a sin...

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When the Bolide Fragmentation Rate shot up through a certain level on Day 701, marking the formal be...

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Songs remain. They last...A song can last long after the events and the people in it are dust and dr...

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You're Hell's Angels, then? What chapter are you from?''REVELATIONS. CHAPTER SIX.

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Neil GaimanGood Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter

Death and Famine and War and Pollution continued biking towards Tadfield. And Grievous Bodily Harm, ...

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Neil GaimanGood Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter

On the day the Gjallerhorn is blown, it will wake the gods, no matter where they are, no matter how ...

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I learned the Norse gods came with their own doomsday: Ragnarok, the twilight of the gods, the end o...

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I sat in the dark and thought: There’s no big apocalypse. Just an endless procession of little ones.

I have heard the languages of apocalypse, and now I shall embrace the silence.

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Neil GaimanThe Sandman: Endless Nights

Maybe we've been too silly to deserve a world like this.

One of the difficulties in raising public concern over the very severe threats of global warming is ...

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It was a high ceilinged room with tall, large-panes windows. Apart from the doorway was the desk whe...

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Shall I kill her now? Shall I not even investigate, but kill her and burn her?His throat moved. Such...

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Poets can't march in protest or do that sort of thing. I feel that's against the rules, and pointles...

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Don't wake me for the end of the world unless it has very good special effects.

Our planet is not fragile at its own timescale and we, pitiful latecomers in the last microsecond of...

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Stephen Jay GouldBully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural History

It happened that a fire broke out backstage in a theater. The clown came out to inform the public. T...

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This is the way the world endsNot with a bang but a whimper.

The ultimate singularity is the Big Bang, which physicists believe was responsible for the birth of ...

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Quinn seemed to have become one of a jaded philosophical society, a group of arcane deviates. Their ...

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When you expect the world to end at any moment, you know there is no need to hurry. You take your ti...

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I'd be willing to bet that the notion of the end of time is more common today in the secular world t...

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It is an edged cliché that the world is most pleasant in the years of a Waning Sun. It is true that ...

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What did you do for them, Bone? Teach them to read and write? Help them rebuild, give them Christ, h...

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And how will this come to pass?' He paused and lowered his voice. ' In the same way all change comes...

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That's where all of us are standing now, he thought. On the fat kindling of past sins.

Be for Man the memory of Earth and Origin. Remember this Earth. Never forget her, but — never come b...

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Walter M. Miller, Jr.A Canticle for Leibowitz

The visage of Lucifer mushroomed into hideousness above the cloudbank, rising slowly like some titan...

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What did you do for them, Bone? Teach them to read and write? Help them rebuild, give the, Christ, h...

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Abandon all nations, the planet drifts to random insect doom.

But if you write a version of Ragnarok in the twenty-first century, it is haunted by the imagining o...

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Dan, I'm not a Republic serial villain. Do you seriously think I'd explain my master-stroke if there...

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The seal of Reason, made impregnable:_ The seal of Truth, immeasurably splendid:The seal of Brotherh...

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The question that naturally occurs is “What would it be like if a star exploded nearby?” Our nearest...

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Is that the end... of all the races and civilizations, and the dreams of the world, to be able to le...

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C. J. CherryhThe Faded Sun Trilogy

I think this is irresponsible preaching and very dangerous, and especially when it is slanted toward...

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But this was not quite the right kraken apocalypse.

The world had seen so many Ages: the Age of Enlightenment; of Reformation; of Reason. Now, at last, ...

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Clive BarkerThe Inhuman Condition

Nowdays, Rosie the Rivetere was a former soccer mom who had just opened her own catering business wh...

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Mark Spitz had met plenty of the divine-retribution folks over the months. This was their moment; th...

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Mark Spitz didn't ask about Harry. You never asked about the characters that disappeared from a Last...

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Every day is a lie, he said. But you are dying. That is not a lie.

He walked out in the gray light and stood and he saw for a brief moment the absolute truth of the wo...

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How would you know if you were the last man on Earth? He said.I don't guess you would know it. You'd...

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To be Irish is to know that in the end the world will break your heart.

The death of a young person for no reason is an apocalypse.

This past year - if you'd have tried, you'd have seen even more clearly the futility of trying to ch...

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I wouldn't mind if the consumer culture went poof! overnight because then we'd all be in the same bo...

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Mamoon went on, “The news I bring is to say that, man being the only animal who hates himself, the l...

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I think this was a nice idea we had in this country and a nice landscape to experiment with. But I t...

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Hunter S. ThompsonAncient Gonzo Wisdom: Interviews with Hunter S. Thompson

the run-down nature of the high-rise was a model of the world into which the future was carrying the...

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If it happens that the human race doesn't make it, then the fact that we were here once will not be ...

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James Howard KunstlerThe Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century