When the world started ending, everybody became a convert…

Some of us seem so anxious about avoiding hell that we forget to celebrate our journey toward heaven.

— Philip Yancey

“There's got to be more to life than just avoiding death”

— C.H. Cobb

The utilitarian behaves sensibly in all that is required for preservation but never takes account of the fact that he must die... His whole…

— Allan Bloom

Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.

— Ayn Rand

“Neither in war nor yet at law ought any man to use every way of escaping death. For often in battle there is no…

— Socrates

“Saving life and avoiding death are typically shorthand for far less evocative terms: lengthening life and delaying death.”

— H. Gibert Welch

Whether by a Mack truck or by heart failure or faulty lungs, death happens. But life isn't really just about avoiding death, is it?…

— Charity Sunshine Tillemann-Dick

Never underestimate the human capacity for wishful thinking and willful blindness,' said Miles. Such as a whole society of people who became so wrapped…

— Lois McMaster Bujold

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.

— Helen Keller

What until recently seemed to be only the apocalyptic fantasies of the Christian faith has today entered the sphere of the soberest scientific calculations;…

— Emil Brunner

“Strange, how in all those apocalyptic movies, when their society breaks down into lawlessness and anarchy, Canada is always the haven of safety, the…

— Jenifer Mohammed

I oppose preserving civilization because I have a better chance of getting laid in a post-apocalyptic world.

— Anonymous

When forced to survive in an apocalyptic world, there are some characters that embrace their higher selves with some emerging as natural born leaders,…

— Laurie Holden

America has always had an apocalyptic strain. Yet it also seems to believe that if, or when, The End comes, it will still come…

— Charles Duhigg

Texting is apocalyptic on some level. It's a reduction of things.

— Nick Cave