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End of the world4 quotes
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper. — T.S. Eliot · 1925This is the Earth, at a time when the dinosaurs roamed a lush and fertile planet. A piece of rock just 6 miles wide changed all that. It hit with the force of 10,000 nuclear weapons. A trillion tons of dirt and rock hurtled into the atmosphere, creating a suffocating blanket of dust the sun was powerless to penetrate for a thousand years. It happened before. It will happen again. It's just a question of when. — Armageddon · 1998Buildings will collapse, power plants will stop generating electricity. Generals will drop atomic bombs on their own populations. Mad revolutionaries will run in the streets, crying fantastic slogans. I have often thought that it would begin in New York. This metropolis has all the symptoms of a mind gone berserk. — Isaac Bashevis Singer · 1968Doomsday is near. Die all, die merrily. — William Shakespeare · 1597Decline of civilization1 quote
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper. — T.S. Eliot · 1925End times1 quote
This is the Earth, at a time when the dinosaurs roamed a lush and fertile planet. A piece of rock just 6 miles wide changed all that. It hit with the force of 10,000 nuclear weapons. A trillion tons of dirt and rock hurtled into the atmosphere, creating a suffocating blanket of dust the sun was powerless to penetrate for a thousand years. It happened before. It will happen again. It's just a question of when. — Armageddon · 1998Live for the moment1 quote
Doomsday is near. Die all, die merrily. — William Shakespeare · 1597New York City1 quote
Buildings will collapse, power plants will stop generating electricity. Generals will drop atomic bombs on their own populations. Mad revolutionaries will run in the streets, crying fantastic slogans. I have often thought that it would begin in New York. This metropolis has all the symptoms of a mind gone berserk. — Isaac Bashevis Singer · 1968Societal collapse1 quote
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper. — T.S. Eliot · 1925The world1 quote
This is the Earth, at a time when the dinosaurs roamed a lush and fertile planet. A piece of rock just 6 miles wide changed all that. It hit with the force of 10,000 nuclear weapons. A trillion tons of dirt and rock hurtled into the atmosphere, creating a suffocating blanket of dust the sun was powerless to penetrate for a thousand years. It happened before. It will happen again. It's just a question of when. — Armageddon · 1998