John Donne  - Quotes

 At the round earth's imagined corners blow

Your trumpets, angels, and arise, arise

From death, you numberless infinities

Of souls, and to your scattered bodies go ;

All whom the flood did, and fire shall o'erthrow,

All whom war, dea[r]th, age, agues, tyrannies,

Despair, law, chance hath slain, and you, whose eyes

Shall behold God, and never taste death's woe.

But let them sleep, Lord, and me mourn a space ;

For, if above all these my sins abound,

'Tis late to ask abundance of Thy grace,

When we are there. Here on this lowly ground,

Teach me how to repent, for that's as good

As if Thou hadst seal'd my pardon with Thy blood.

 

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Joseph Addison  - Quotes

 Should the whole frame of nature round him break,

In ruin and confusion hurled,

He, unconcerned, would hear the mighty crack,

And stand secure amidst a falling world.
 

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Neil Gaiman  - Quotes

 Death and Famine and War and Pollution continued biking towards Tadfield. And Grievous Bodily Harm, Cruelty To Animals, Things Not Working Properly Even After You've Given Them A Good Thumping but secretly No Alcohol Lager, and Really Cool People travelled with them. 

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Neil Gaiman  - Quotes

 You're Hell's Angels, then? What chapter are you from?'



REVELATIONS, CHAPTER SIX.
 

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Justin Cronin  - Quotes

 In her mind's eye she saw it, saw it all at last: the rolling armies and the flames of battle; the graves and pits and dying cries of a hundred million souls; the spreading darkness, like a black wing stretching over the earth; the last, bitter hours of cruelty and sorrow, and the terrible, final flights; death's great dominion over all, and, at the last, empty cities, becalmed by the silence of a hundred years. Already these things were coming to pass. 

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Scott Westerfeld  - Quotes

 I love my virginity to the apocalypse. 

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Walter M. Miller Jr.  - Quotes

 That's where all of us are standing now, he thought. On the fat kindling of past sins. 

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Neil Gaiman  - Quotes

 I sat in the dark and thought: There 

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Cormac McCarthy  - Quotes

 He walked out into the gray light and stood and he saw for a brief moment the absolute truth of the world. The cold relentless circling of an intestate earth. Darkness implacable. The blind dogs of the sun in their running. The crushing black vacuum of the universe. And somewhere two hunted animals trembling like ground-foxes in their cover. Borrowed time and borrowed world and borrowed eyes with which to sorrow it. 

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Douglas Coupland  - Quotes

 I wouldn't mind if the consumer culture went poof! overnight because then we'd all be in the same boat and life wouldn't be so bad, mucking about with the chickens and feudalism and the like. But you know what would be absolutely horrible. The worst? ... If, as we were all down on earth wearing rags and husbanding pigs inside abandoned Baskin-Robbins franchises, I were to look up in the sky and see a jet -- with just one person inside even -- I'd go berserk. I'd go crazy. Either everyone slides back into the Dark Ages or no one does. 

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Neil Gaiman  - Quotes

 Songs remain. They last...A song can last long after the events and the people in it are dust and dreams and gone. That's the power of songs. 

T.S. Eliot  - Quotes

 This is the way the world ends

Not with a bang but a whimper.
 

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Glenway Wescott  - Quotes

 For Alwyn's grandfather, who was known as  

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Daniel Patrick Moynihan  - Quotes

 To be Irish is to know that in the end the world will break your heart. 

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