David Mitchell Quotes

Here's the funny thing about the world coming to an end. Once it gets going, it doesn't seem to stop.

Time for the world to end.

In summary, our world is doomed.

The world, as it is now, wants to die, wants to perish — and it will.

What does civilization mean to you, and what would its ending bring to the world?

Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice.

There is light at the end of the tunnel for India, but it's that of an oncoming train which will run them over.

Once people realized that, 'Hey, we're going to be left on Earth here, and everything is going to hell quickly,' sci-fi soon became about our own self-destruction.

Could this be the Apocalypse ?

It’s the end. It’s the end of the civilization. We’re going down. No, it’s sure not too attractive. Lenticels. I just hope my kids don’t live to see the last days. The things burning and people living in cellars. Violet. The only thing worse than the thought it may all come tumbling down is the thought that we may go on like this forever.

Thunder and lightning, it's like the end of the world.

The mortal world is in a state of Beautiful Chaos and destruction, which will ultimately lead to an exquisite end.

Storms rumble beyond the horizon, and the fires of heaven purge the earth. There is no salvation without destruction, no hope this side of death.

End times aren't supposed to be very pretty.

Over the field rang his clear voice calling: ‘Death! Ride, ride to ruin and the world’s ending!

What we hoped was that we could stop the coming end of the world.

The world was floods above and fire below

Man has ruled this world as a stumbling demented child king, long enough. And as his empire crumbles, my precious black widow shall rise as his most fitting successor.

The whole world is a disaster waiting to happen.

Could the world fall?

The first angel sounded his trumpet, and there came hail and fire mixed with blood, and it was hurled down upon the earth. A third of the earth was burned up, a third of the trees were burned up, and all the green grass was burned up.

This storm you talk of . . .t will be such a one, my son, as the world has not seen before. There will be no safety by arms, no help from authority, no answer in science. It will rage till every flower of culture is trampled, and all human things are leveled in a vast chaos.

Every generation has a macabre notion that wars, government prohibition, natural disasters or mankind itself could be the downfall of society and the world as a whole.

History: the category of human phenomena which tends to catastrophe.

The status quo leads to self-destruction.