Four horsemen of the apocalypse Quotes

23 quotes from 17 authors

When you scroll through these 23 voices, you’ll hear the Four Horsemen invoked in jokes, warnings, and ecological musings. One line jokes about leaving gifts for them at Christmas, another reminds us that nature’s rules ignore wealth or status. Together they show how the ancient omen still sparks humor and reflection.

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Never mind, love, it's not the end of the world.

Simon Barnes

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“Army, Marriage, the Church and Banking: the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.”

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

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As far as love is concerned, possession, power, fusion and disenchantment are the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.

Zygmunt Bauman

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The least-bad scenario is a hard landing, global recession worse than the 1930s. The worst-case borrows from the Four Horsemen of the…

Kenneth S. Deffeyes

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“Army, Marriage, the Church, and Banking: the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Yes, go on, laugh.”

Carlos Ruiz Zafón

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The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse predict an ailing marriage: Criticism, Defensiveness, Stonewalling and Contempt. The worst of these is contempt.

John M. Gottman

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There was an advert I rather liked. Devastated woman: "I've just seen the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse!" Husband: "Never mind, love,…

Simon Barnes

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“Most kids grow up leaving something out for Santa at Christmas time when he comes down the chimney. I used to make…

Jeanette Winterson

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“I'm so bitter right now that if the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse showed up I'd give them directions.”

Whiskey Britches

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When hopes and dreams are loose in the streets, it is well for the timid to lock doors, shutter windows and lie…

Eric Hoffer

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With the advent of 24-hour Sky News, the News Flash has been greatly devalued. Time was, when something unimaginably horrendous had to…

Declan Lynch

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A lot of people we tell the story to assume that the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse were actually part of the…

Roberto Orci

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“When hopes are loose in the streets, it is well for the timid to lock doors, shutter windows and lie low until…

Eric Hoffer

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“Yesterday I gave a brilliant speech to 1 million gnomes, made a $1.23 Billion dollar business deal, took over a major TV…

Jaime Buckley

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Beware the Four Horsemen of the Information Apocalypse: terrorists, drug dealers, kidnappers, and child pornographers. Seems like you can scare any public…

Bruce Schneier

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Attempts to tame the wayward and domesticate the riotous, to make the unknowable predictable and enchain the free-roaming - all such things…

Zygmunt Bauman

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The only use for military service is that it reveals the number of morons in the population," he would remark. "And that…

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

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“Every last minute of my life has been preordained and I'm sick and tired of it. How this feels is I'm just…

Chuck Palahniuk

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How this feels is I'm just another task in God's daily planner: The Renaissance pencilled in for right after the Dark Ages.…

Chuck Palahniuk

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“Of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, the one named War has gone - at least for a while. But Famine, Pestilence…

Herbert Hoover

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“The collapse of order brings in its wake the four horsemen of the apocalypse - famine, war, pestilence, and death. Population declines,…

Peter Turchin

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“Unlike human laws (and the Malthusian approach), the natural laws of ecology do not discriminate on the basis of race, status or…

Paul Watson

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The Book of Revelation is the strangest book in the Bible, and the most controversial. Instead of stories and moral teaching, it…

Elaine Pagels

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