End of the world Quote by David Mitchell Download Open image “Anticipating the end of the world is humanity's oldest passtime” — David Mitchell ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare End of the world Ends Humanity Nature of man World
Many people think of our times as being the last before the end of the world. The evidence of horror all around us makes… — Sophie Scholl Copy Share Image
The world we are in today is likely to end catastrophically, as many other human worlds have done before. — Paul Kingsnorth Copy Share Image
If the age of the Earth were a calendar year and today were a breath before midnight on New Year's Eve, we showed up a scant fifteen minutes ago, and all of recorded history has blinked by in the last sixty seconds. Luckily for us, our planet-mates--the fantastic meshwork of plants, animals, and microbes--have been patiently perfecting their wares since… — Janine Benyus Copy Share
Where humanity is going to find itself in, say, 20, 30, 40, or 50 years would be very difficult to predict, I think. There… — John Hurt Copy Share Image
If you're reading this, then I'm already too late. Humanity has reached it's final days. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The age of nations has passed. Now, unless we wish to perish, we must shake off our old prejudices and build the Earth. The… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
“The stark reality is that the early days of the final end times prophesied in the Bible have already begun. Most of us don’t… — John Price Copy Share Image
“We have reached the end of one era, and now we don't know what is all around us. Because we're already in a new… — László Krasznahorkai Copy Share Image
Thinking about the new epoch - often called the Anthropocene, or the age of humanity - challenges us to look at ourselves in the… — David Grinspoon Copy Share Image
There is sense in hoping for recognition in a distant future only when we take it for granted that mankind will remain essentially unchanged,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Humanity will continue, but in a different way. Material structures will change. From this we will have the opportunity to be more human. We… — Carlos Barrios Copy Share Image
“In the next room a freckly girl Julia's age sat in a wheelchair. One of her legs wasn't there. She'd probably love to have… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“... Ethical cyberexplorers are responsible, yeah? We are friendly ghosts in the machine, not poltergeists or hooligans. We are a growing breed. Over sixty-five… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“I succumbed. Late-fifteenth-century verb, Old French succomber or Latin succumbere, but a basic necessity of the human condition, especially mine.” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“The second tunnel’s a Ministry of Defence tunnel...dug for a nuclear bomb shelter. The entrance is in the garden center at Woolworth’s in Great Malvern...When the four-minute warning goes off, the Ministry of Defence lot at the RSRE’ll be ferried up to Woolies by the military police. Councillors from Malvern Council’ll be allowed in, so will Woolworth’s manager and assistant… — David Mitchell Copy Share
War's an auction where whoever can pay the most in damage and still be standing wins. — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
The human world is made of stories, not people. The people the stories use to tell themselves are not to be blamed — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
So little is actually worthy of belief or disbelief. Better to strive to coexist than seek to disapprove . . . — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
I elbowed my way into the grubby café, bought a pie that tasted of shoe polish and a pot of tea with cork crumbs floating in it, and eavesdropped on a pair of Shetland pony breeders. Despondency makes one hanker after lives one never led. Why have you given your life to books, TC? Dull, dull, dull! The memoirs are… — David Mitchell Copy Share
“Is it necessary to recall that the earth is not infinite, and that our civilization is close to having invaded all of it? The end of the world, this great terror of the Middle Ages, is destined to become a source of anguish again in another sense. It is no longer in time but in space that this terrestrial globe… — Gabriel Tarde Copy Share
“Will this generation be able to turn things around and learn a valuable lesson from all of this? I hope so, but I have… — Aaron B. Powell Copy Share Image
The end of the world is on people's minds. We have the power to destroy or save ourselves, but the question is what do… — Nicolas Cage Copy Share Image
People always wonder when the world is going to end. I believe that the world will end when everyone stops loving. — Nichole Fickes Copy Share Image
End-of-the-world stories tend to ring true. I've always been drawn to them, but as I wrote my own, I found surprising pleasure in creating… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
When I come home from work, if I just played a really good game and I'm on top of the world, I think changing… — Kirk Cousins Copy Share Image
When I wrote 'The Good Body,' I turned 40 and suddenly had this stomach. It seemed like the end of the world. Because I… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
Funerals and weddings were commonplace, and nothing could have been so interesting to them as the coming of the end of the world ...… — Edward Eggleston Copy Share Image
“Even my Buddhist friends have been feeling despair and when they go bad, you know the end is nigh.” — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Let the end of the world be inside you, then you don't need to fear the end of the world out there. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The planets survival has become so uncertain that any effort, any thought that presupposes an assured future amounts to a mad gamble. — Elias Canetti Copy Share Image
