End of the world Quote by David Mitchell Download Open image ““Anticipating the end of the world is humanity's oldest pastime”” — David Mitchell ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare End of the world Nature of man
“People have always expected the end of the world to be a dramatic, thematic event: war, disease, a sudden explosion. But what if the… — Caroline George Copy Share Image
“To imagine a new world is to live it daily, each thought, each glance, each step, each gesture killing and re-creating, death always a step in advance. To spit on the past is not enough. To proclaim the future is not enough. One must act as if the past were dead and the future unrealizable. One must act as if… — Henry Miller Copy Share
“I am convinced that human history has not yet begun, that we find ourselves in the last period of the prehistoric.” — Bartolomeo Vanzetti Copy Share Image
“For a more knowing and informed world, we are becoming forever more complicit based on the evidence presented to us, regarding the demise of… — Alastair Agutter Copy Share Image
“We inhabit, in ordinary daylight, a future that was unimaginably dark a few decades ago, when people found the end of the world easier… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“This is the story of the end of the world, the rise and fall of human civilization, the creation of the Partials and the… — Dan Wells Copy Share Image
“Who knows what wonders, what horrors, may have transpired in the dim past, before our race stood erect? Who can guess at the mysteries… — S.T. Joshi Copy Share Image
“We don't have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an endless succession of presents, and to live now as we… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“The oldest thing of all is the present, because there's never been anything else but present. No one has ever lived in the past,… — Harry Mulisch 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… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
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… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Is it necessary to recall that the earth is not infinite, and that our civilization is close to having invaded all of it? The… — Gabriel Tarde Copy Share Image
“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
