# Quotes about the end of the world - Quotes: 14 - Authors: 10 - Broader topic: [Quotes about the future](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/the-future.md) - Topic page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/the-end-of-the-world - JSON version (same data): https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/the-end-of-the-world.json ## Quotes > The end of the world turned out to be something I preferred to fantasize about rather than experience. [Steven R. Boyett](https://www.leafyquotes.com/steven-r-boyett.md) · [Ariel](https://www.leafyquotes.com/steven-r-boyett/ariel.md) · p. 166 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/steven-r-boyett/ariel/the-end-of-the.md) Topics: [humor](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/humor.md), [dreams and aspirations](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/dreams-and-aspirations.md), [the end of the world](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/the-end-of-the-world.md) > People have always been good at imagining the end of the world, which is much easier to picture than the strange sidelong paths of change in a world without end. (p27) [Rebecca Solnit](https://www.leafyquotes.com/rebecca-solnit.md) · [Hope In The Dark](https://www.leafyquotes.com/rebecca-solnit/hope-in-the-dark.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/rebecca-solnit/hope-in-the-dark/people-have-always.md) Topics: [change](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/change.md), [the end of the world](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/the-end-of-the-world.md) > My point is, there’s always something. I think, as a species, we have a desire to believe that we’re living at the climax of the story. It’s a kind of narcissism. We want to believe that we’re uniquely important, that we’re living at the end of history, that now, after all these millennia of false alarms, now is finally the worst that it’s ever been, that finally we have reached the end of the world. [Emily St John Mandel](https://www.leafyquotes.com/emily-st-john-mandel.md) · [Sea of Tranquility](https://www.leafyquotes.com/emily-st-john-mandel/sea-of-tranquility.md) · p. 189 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/emily-st-john-mandel/sea-of-tranquility/my-point-is-theres.md) Topics: [history](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/history.md), [the end of the world](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/the-end-of-the-world.md) > “But all of this raises an interesting question,” Olive said. “What if it always is the end of the world?” > > She paused for effect. Before her, the holographic audience was almost perfectly still. “Because we might reasonably think of the end of the world,” Olive said, “as a continuous and never-ending process.” [Emily St John Mandel](https://www.leafyquotes.com/emily-st-john-mandel.md) · [Sea of Tranquility](https://www.leafyquotes.com/emily-st-john-mandel/sea-of-tranquility.md) · p. 190 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/emily-st-john-mandel/sea-of-tranquility/but-all-of-this.md) Topics: [the end of the world](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/the-end-of-the-world.md) > During seasons of great pestilence, men have often believed the prophecies of crazed fanatics, that the end of the world was come. [Charles Mackay](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-mackay.md) · [Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-mackay/extraordinary-popular-delusions-and-the-madness-of-crowds.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-mackay/extraordinary-popular-delusions-and-the-madness-of-crowds/during-seasons-of-great.md) Topics: [fear](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/fear.md), [the end of the world](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/the-end-of-the-world.md) > An epidemic terror of the end of the world has several times spread over the nations. The most remarkable was that which seized Christendom about the middle of the tenth century. Numbers of fanatics appeared in France, Germany, and Italy at that time, preaching that the thousand years prophesied in the Apocalypse as the term of the world’s duration were about to expire, and that the Son of Man would appear in the clouds to judge the godly and the ungodly. The delusion appears to have been discouraged by the Church, but it nevertheless spread rapidly among the people. [Charles Mackay](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-mackay.md) · [Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-mackay/extraordinary-popular-delusions-and-the-madness-of-crowds.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-mackay/extraordinary-popular-delusions-and-the-madness-of-crowds/an-epidemic-terror.md) Topics: [the end of the world](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/the-end-of-the-world.md), [crowd psychology](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/crowd-psychology.md) > The world, as it is now, wants to die, wants to perish — and it will. [Hermann Hesse](https://www.leafyquotes.com/hermann-hesse.md) · [Demian](https://www.leafyquotes.com/hermann-hesse/demian.md) · p. 199 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/hermann-hesse/demian/the-world-as.md) Topics: [the end of the world](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/the-end-of-the-world.md) > That's how it goes, you think you're on top of the world, and suddenly they spring Armageddon on you. The Great War, the Last Battle. Heaven versus Hell, three rounds, one Fall, no submission. And that'd be that. No more world. That's what the end of the world meant. No more world. Just endless Heaven or, depending who won, endless Hell. Crowley didn't know which was worse. [Neil Gaiman](https://www.leafyquotes.com/neil-gaiman.md) · [Good Omens](https://www.leafyquotes.com/neil-gaiman/good-omens.md) · p. 20 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/neil-gaiman/good-omens/thats-how-it-goes.md) Topics: [the end of the world](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/the-end-of-the-world.md) > Someday, someday, this crazy world will have to end, > > And our God will take things back that He to us did lend. > > And if, on that sad day, you want to scold our God, > > Why go right ahead and scold Him. He'll just smile and nod. [Kurt Vonnegut](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kurt-vonnegut.md) · [Cat's Cradle](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kurt-vonnegut/cats-cradle.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kurt-vonnegut/cats-cradle/someday-someday-this.md) Topics: [god](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/god.md), [the end of the world](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/the-end-of-the-world.md) > I regard it as almost inevitable that either a nuclear confrontation or environmental catastrophe will cripple the Earth at some point in the next 1,000 years which, as geological time goes, is the mere blink of an eye. By then I hope and believe that our ingenious race will have found a way to slip the surly bonds of Earth and will therefore survive the disaster. [Stephen W. Hawking](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-w-hawking.md) · [Brief Answers to the Big Questions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-w-hawking/brief-answers-to-the-big-questions.md) · p. 150 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-w-hawking/brief-answers-to-the-big-questions/i-regard-it-as-almost.md) Topics: [survival](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/survival.md), [the end of the world](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/the-end-of-the-world.md) > The world is always ending, for someone. [Neil Gaiman](https://www.leafyquotes.com/neil-gaiman.md) · [Signal to Noise](https://www.leafyquotes.com/neil-gaiman/signal-to-noise.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/neil-gaiman/signal-to-noise/the-world-is-always.md) Topics: [the end of the world](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/the-end-of-the-world.md) > We are always living in the final days. What have you got? A hundred years or much, much less until the end of your world. [Neil Gaiman](https://www.leafyquotes.com/neil-gaiman.md) · [Signal to Noise](https://www.leafyquotes.com/neil-gaiman/signal-to-noise.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/neil-gaiman/signal-to-noise/we-are-always.md) Topics: [time](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/time.md), [the end of the world](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/the-end-of-the-world.md) > It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That's how the world is going to end. [William Faulkner](https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-faulkner.md) · [As I Lay Dying](https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-faulkner/as-i-lay-dying.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-faulkner/as-i-lay-dying/it-takes-two.md) Topics: [death](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/death.md), [birth](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/birth.md), [the end of the world](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/the-end-of-the-world.md) > Vague a l'ame — melancholy yearning for the end of the world. [Emil Cioran](https://www.leafyquotes.com/emil-cioran.md) · [A Short History of Decay](https://www.leafyquotes.com/emil-cioran/a-short-history-of-decay.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/emil-cioran/a-short-history-of-decay/vague-a-lame.md) Topics: [melancholy](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/melancholy.md), [the end of the world](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/the-end-of-the-world.md)