Extinction Quotes

202 quotes by 176 authors

Scratch any fortune and you'll find blood only a generation or two back...child labor in mines or mills...Slavery. Drugs. Stock swindles. Wasting nature with clear-cuts,… — Chuck Palahniuk
Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world only, our own, we see that world multiply itself and we have at our disposal as many… — Marcel Proust
This is the whole point of technology. It creates an appetite for immortality on the one hand. It threatens universal extinction on the other. Technology… — Don DeLillo
Global warming, along with the cutting and burning of forests and other critical habitats, is causing the loss of living species at a level comparable… — Al Gore
If I had a soul I sold it for pretty words If I had a body I used it up spurting my essence Allen Ginsberg… — Allen Ginsberg
The strain of constant adaptation to so many fearful events and discoveries is already too much to bear with sanity; one has to keep pretending… — Janet Frame
Why fight the 'natural' (oh, weaselly word!) order of things? Why? Because of this--one fine day, a purely predatory world shall consume itself. In an… — David Mitchell
I am thinking of one woman and the rest is blotto. I say I am thinking of her, but the truth is I am dying… — Henry Miller
Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception. — Carl Sagan
Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed; if we permit the last virgin… — Wallace Stegner
There are certain prehistoric things that swim beyond extinction. — Karen Russell
All the labor of all the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noonday brightness of human genius are destined to extinction. So… — Bertrand Russell
Anyone who does not see the vanity of the world is very vain himself. So who does not see it, apart from young people whose… — Blaise Pascal
Who in the world has not yearned for a loved one, has never said, If only he or she could come back just once, just… — Ismail KadarÃ©
Experience as well as common sense indicated that the most reliable method of avoiding self-extinction was not to equip oneself with the means to accomplish… — Iain Banks
A blaze of love and extinction, was better than a lantern glimmer of the same which should last long years. — Thomas Hardy
We tell our children they're trapped like rats on a doomed, bankrupt, gangster-haunted planet with dwindling resources, with nothing to look forward to but rising… — Grant Morrison
Nevertheless so profound is our ignorance, and so high our presumption, that we marvel when we hear of the extinction of an organic being; and… — Charles Darwin
Looking at everything, I started to feel nauseous, as if the seventies had taken refuge here against extinction and were preparing to take over the… — Kim Harrison
In an individual, selfishness uglifies the soul; for the human species, selfishness is extinction. — David Mitchell

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