Quote by China Miéville

These are clearly the end times, and now we understand why the prophets warned us about the Trump of Doom.

— Michael R. Burch

“The great majority of interpretations of Apocalypse assume that the End is pretty near. Consequently the historical allegory is always having to be revised;…

— Frank Kermode

“Thus apocalypses set an audience’s space within the context of a larger, invisible world, and they set the audience’s time in the context of…

— David A. Desilva

I can be absolutely comfortable with an apocalyptic Jesus because he was simply wrong. As long as he's wrong I don't worry about him,…

— John Dominic Crossan

Prophets of doom have always taken risks in terms of ridicule and humiliation. If you stand on a street corner holding up a sign…

— Robert Kiyosaki

“On the other hand, there is apocalyptic literature, which appears to be continuous with classical prophecy yet to be a particular outgrowth of it.…

— R.W.L. Moberly

“Rain fell on the roofs of the just and the unjust, the saints and the sinners, those who knew peace and those in torment,…

— Robert McCammon

“no point whatsoever meeting catastrophe with reason when what was needed was our prophets deranged and coming towards us wild-eyed and smeared with shit,…

— Mike McCormack

The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does…

— Margaret Mead

“If Israel’s darkest hour occurs in the Land, then it is fitting that we abandon the unwarranted optimism that pervades so much of the…

— Dalton Lifsey

The Book of Reveal-ation in the Bible predicts an unveiling of great truth and unimaginable wisdom. The Apocalypse is not the end of the…

— Dan Brown

In every man sleeps a prophet, and when he wakes there is a little more evil in the world.

— Emile M. Cioran