"I'll remember your apocalypse if you'll remember mineIt will be a holiday of the senses"
- Eric Gamalinda
"The death of a young person for no reason is an apocalypse."
- Dave Eggers
"Abandon all nations, the planet drifts to random insect doom."
- William S. Burroughs
"It is also the irrational instinct of religionism, the vague yearning for something to worship—a reflection or shadow of the true devotional principle—which prompts men to project a subjective image o..."
- James Morgan Pryse
"We grab handfuls of bottles and climb up onto the roof of the house. She stumbles and her foot slips into the gutter sopped with dead leaves. I grab her wrists and pull her clear – sure, she's not the..."
- Kirsty Logan
"It was the hubris of each generation to think this anew, to think that their time was special, that all things would come to an end with them."
- Hugh Howey
"If anything, global response to the Rising only confirmed something that many Australians had quietly believed for quite some time: If forced to live in Australia for a year, most of the world’s popul..."
- Mira Grant
"If I have to face the end of human existence, I want to look totally smoking when it happens. Now shut the hell up."
- Angeline Trevena
"It is an edged cliché that the world is most pleasant in the years of a Waning Sun. It is true that the weather is not so driven, that everywhere there is a sense of slowing down, and most places expe..."
- Vernor Vinge
"During the persecutions under the Emperor Domitian, John was summoned to Rome, where he was tortured by immersion in a pot of boiling oil and subsequently banished to the island of Patmos in the Aegea..."
- Gilles Quispel