Doomsday Quotes

“Rose:i love you
Doctor:Quite right, and i guess if it's my last chance to say it... Rose Tyler...
(the doctor fades, him in his TARDIS, with tear tracks and a tear running down his cheek)”
― Russell T. Davies

“Chuck skipped through the rest of the preamble to the actual examples
Spaceguard had chronicled:
“On March 23rd, 1989, an asteroid designated Asteroid 1989FC missed
hitting the Earth by six hours. This little jewel packed the energy of
roughly a thousand of the most powerful nuclear bombs, and the human
race became aware of it shortly after its closest approach. Had this celestial
baseball been only six hours later most of the population of the Earth
would have been eliminated with zero warning.”
“In October of 1990, an asteroid that would have been considered
very small, struck the Pacific Ocean. This little fellow only packed the
energy of a small atomic bomb, about the same as the one that flattened
Hiroshima, and if it had arrived a few hours later or earlier it could have
easily struck a city rather than making a relatively harmless splash into
the center of the ocean. Remember, relatively here, is just a comparative
term.”   ”
― Jody Summers, The Mayan Legacy

“The world is a goddamned evil place, the strong prey on the weak, the rich on the poor; I’ve given up hope that there is a God that will save us all. How am I supposed to believe that there’s a heaven and a hell when all I see now is hell.”
― Aaron B. Powell, Doomsday Diaries III: Luke the Protector

“I'm burning up a sun to say goodbye”
― The Doctor (David Tennant

“Maybe it won’t come as too much of a surprise that a certain amount
of alcohol was involved with this Darwin Award candidate of an idea,
and though someone must have considered it ahead of time or the parachute
and camera wouldn’t be there, it’s still pretty certain that the onset
of this little adventure was preceded by something similar to the above
mentioned collegiate death sentence:
“Hey man, watch this!”
― Jody Summers, The Mayan Legacy

“Save the world. What a thought. Was this asteroid really speeding
toward Earth on a collision course? Would it really wipe out everything?
Could humans really do anything to stop it? It was just too incredible.
As she considered the circumstances of her life right now, she felt like
she’d just stuck her face into the middle of a tornado. But Jeremy wasn’t
the tornado. He was an anchor for her heart, and a piece of her she knew
she had been missing all her life. He was the kind of guy little girls dream
of when they wish to grow up and marry a wonderful prince— strong,
sensitive, smart, kind, the list just went on.
She smiled at herself. It seems that it’s difficult to focus on the end of the
world when you’ve just found love.    ”
― Jody Summers, The Mayan Legacy

“Thank God for imminent doomsday.”
― Jim Butcher, Cold Days

“In 5-billion years the Sun will expand & engulf our orbit as the charred ember that was once Earth vaporizes. Have a nice day.”
― Neil Degrasse Tyson

“When you're at peace, you embrace the eternity.
When you're confused, you be dazzled by doomsday.”
― Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity

“I was also motivated by a strong sense of fear that we had still not begun to deal with, let alone solve, any of the fundamental issues arising from the gas attack. Specifically, for people who are outside the main system of Japanese society (the young in particular), there remains no effective alternative or safety net. As long as this crucial gap exists in our society, like a kind of black hole, even if Aum is suppressed, other magnetic force fields—"Aum-like" groups—will rise up again, and similar incidents are bound to take place.”
― Haruki Murakami, Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche

“In fact, one of the main lessons to be learned from the collapses of the Maya, Anasazi, Easter Islanders, and those other past societies (as well as from the recent collapse of the Soviet Union) is that a society's steep decline may begin only a decade or two after the society reaches its peak numbers, wealth, and power. In that respect, the trajectories of the societies that we have discussed are unlike the usual courses of individual human lives, which decline in a prolonged senescence. The reason is simple: maximum population, wealth, resource consumption, and waste production mean maximum environmental impact, approaching the limit where impact outstrips resources. On reflection, it's no surprise that declines of societies tend to follow swiftly on their peaks.”
― Jared Diamond, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

“There's no doomsday scheme made specifically for mankind,
only higher agenda and priority than human race preservation.”
― Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

“Our planet is a freak which we shall destroy by our own wicked senseless activities in the next century. Our history will very soon come to an end. Now that God is dead, we are at last presented with the truth, yes, the truth remains, but it is on a short lead. Anyway, we are nothing and it matters not what we do.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Green Knight

“To me, and to the participants of at the Green Bank conference, the idea that a civilization might destroy itself is both ludicrous and likely. We are pathetically inadequate at long-term planning, idiotically primitive in our destructive urges and pathologically incapable of simply getting along.”
― Brian Cox, Human Universe

“They were meant to carry you. Not just when it’s convenient. Not just when you were small. For your entire life. You were brought into the world to be loved, and guided, and carried. That’s the deal they made, the day you were born.”
― Katie Henry, Let's Call It a Doomsday

“How are we supposed to live without a meteor bearing down on us? How are we supposed to find the best parts of humanity without a brutal regime at the door? How are we supposed to tell the people we love that we love them if we're not five minutes from being destroyed?
That's the challenge of being alive.”
― R. Eric Thomas, Here for It; Or, How to Save Your Soul in America: Essays

“He is like a man living through the night before doomsday, with full knowledge that the sun will go nova in the morning, yet unable to enjoy the precious pleasures of this world because all his energy is devoted to wishing desperately that the foreseen end will not, after all, come to pass.”
― Dean Koontz, The Face

“As the last human lay dying in their shallow grave, they fashioned a crude grave marker from wood. It read: "Man - Terroriser of Fish and Great Destroyer of all he made, found or was gifted." They then covered themselves with earth and quietly passed away. Seeing this, God left the Universe and took the Sun with him.”
― Stewart Stafford

“They say the world will end soon.
They say that the nuclear weapons made,
Due to fearing 'the other',
Has become a curse, a plague, a scourge
On those who made them
Even more than those they were made to scare...
And I wonder:
Will the nuclear weapons be the cause of world’s end?
Or will world’s end be caused by humanity’s fear, complicity, and submission?

And if what they say is true,
Before the world ends and before I die,
I wish to drink one last cup of cardamom-flavored tea
Taste one last fig, peach, or apricot,
Smell a quince,
Dip one last piece of bread
In Palestinian thyme and olive oil…

Before the world ends,
I wish to smell a few pine needles,
To breathe the smell of the first rain shower
After a long, hot, and dry summer…

Before the world ends and before I die,
I wish to read one more book
Out of the thousands of books that I still want to read…

Before the world ends and before I die,
I ask for one more spring
To smell bunches of Iraqi narcissus flowers.
I want to live one more autumn,
To enjoy the magical colors
Of the dying leaves on the trees
As they challenge death with beauty
Right before falling on the grounds of indifference…

But my biggest wish before I die is
For my death not to be the end of the world…

[Original poem published in Arabic on October 13 at ahewar.org]”
― Louis Yako

“Their extreme wealth and privilege served only to make them obsessed with insulating themselves from the very real and present danger of climate change, rising sea levels, mass migration, global pandemics, nativist panic, and resource depletion. For them, the future of technology is about only one thing: escape from the rest of us.”
― Douglas Rushkoff, Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires

“When the banner of countless colours spreads on the wind, and the Riders of the Desert storm arise, then shall the Sleeper awake beneath his sand shroud and bring the Judgement to the world.”
― Mladen Đorđević, Svetioničar - Pritajeno zlo

“There was an epoch in the course of the general sentiment when the comet had attained, at length, a size surpassing that of any previously recorded visitation. The people now, dismissing any lingering hope that the astronomers were wrong, experienced all the certainty of evil. The chimerical aspect of their terror was gone. The hearts of the stoutest of our race beat violently within their bosoms. A very few days suffered, however, to merge even such feelings in sentiments more unendurable. We could no longer apply to the strange orb any accustomed thoughts. Its historical attributes had disappeared. It oppressed us with a hideous novelty of emotion. We saw it not as an astronomical phenomenon in the heavens, but as an incubus upon our hearts and a shadow upon our brains. It had taken, with unconceivable rapidity, the character of a gigantic mantle of rare flame, extending from horizon to horizon.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion

“Actually, doomsday is a wonderful time. The most wonderful time, even. This is the only time in history where there’s a chance for people to abandon all of their cares and burdens and belong entirely to themselves. It’s stupid to be like him. The most responsible way of life right now is to enjoy ourselves while we can.”
― Liu Cixin, The Dark Forest

“THE END...


The rhapsodius melody of thy
'Tis sung by thee's so profound, so profound,
The whole world's an infatuated milange
Whilst the ground beneath us twitches with the ulterior yet inevitable fear...

Thee strived to attain the God
Minded to sacrifice one and all,
Hallelujah, thou cried! Ripping of the sinister seven
had procured the implausibe term of perfect being...

Silence engulfed the whole world
The beneath enveloped with blood and stardust,
With the prodigious smirk, the Diety exclaimed,
"Thou must have foreseen this", and shattered 'Tis philosopher's stone
The lesson that took 'tis life, All is one and One is all...

The vehemence thou feel is so profound,
so profound,
When a mirror has been broken, shattered pieces scattered on the ground
Glimpses of new life reflected all around,
Window of beginning, stillness, new light of the dawn
Let thee silent empty body be filled and reborn...

"Money and women, power and sex, status and glory", anything and everything thou shall perceive shall belong to thy
"'Tis was what I desired the most, my alter ego's the one I needed the most! Thank you and goodbye..." the last breath gasped out of thee soft festered lips,
Veni, vidi and vici, the veracious gnome of one's being
Undeniably, 'tis was the end...”
― Dishebh Bhayana

“The super-rich are obsessed with creating more wealth and amassing money but in the process they are destroying our planet Earth. Stephen Hawking had made it clear that Earth has about 100 more years before it becomes a dead planet.”
― Avijeet Das

“[...] a decade as notable for its supreme faith in human rationality as for its dark anxieties about mankind’s survival [...]”
― Sylvia Nasar, A Beautiful Mind

“A situation approaching global ruin has existed only in the 20th century. All the more reason, then, to believe that soon Jehovah will take action to protect his property, his creation.”
― Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society

“I am not on a mission that involves preaching doomsday. Yes, there are definitely a lot of pollution-based problems in the world. And, yes, we most certainly need to change our consumption and production ways radically in order to stop ongoing climate change, inequality, and mindless consumption. But I think that one of the many reasons this “turning things around” is so hard is that the way we are being told to change things is lecture-based and fear driven.”
― Kristine H. Harper, Anti-trend, Resilient Design and the Art of Sustainable Living

“Maybe they are running out of land for themselves…Forests cut down by the thousands. Conquests. New Kingdoms. Shifting cultivation. In the world we men have made, there is no room for them…or for that matter, us”
― Gourav Mohanty, Sons of Darkness

“One by Stewart Stafford

Death riding a pale horse,
Warned it was time to leave,
No hiding place as dice rolled,
I sank to my knees to grieve.

Six hundred and sixty-six morticians,
Greeted the thing from the sea,
Scuttling sideways down the road,
It headed for Washington D.C.

Navel-gazing, not my thing at all,
But the Day of Judgement came by,
Grabbing my phone lightning-fast,
A dying breath to scream goodbye.

Firestorms, tsunamis, the dead resurrecting,
The sun shattered into nine,
Winds that flayed skin from bone,
Jester bells at dawn's last shine.

© Stewart Stafford, 2022. All rights reserved.”
― Stewart Stafford