#apocalypse

If it happens that the human race doesn't make it, then the fact that we were here once will not be altered, that once upon a time we peopled this astonishing blue planet, and wondered intelligently at everything about it and the other things who lived here with us on it, and that we celebrated the beauty of it in music and art, architecture, literature, and dance, and that there were times when we approached something godlike in our abilities and aspirations. We emerged out of depthless mystery, and back into mystery we returned,and in the end the mystery is all there is. ↗

— James Howard Kunstler

#history #spirituality #architecture

The visage of Lucifer mushroomed into hideousness above the cloudbank, rising slowly like some titan climbing to its feet after ages of imprisonment in the Earth. ↗

— Walter M. Miller Jr.

#mythology #science-vs-religion #war #age

What if nobody showed up at Armageddon? ↗

— C.R. Strahan

#humor #inspiration #philosophy #humor

I want you here. I don't care if it's a hundred degrees and every blade of grass dies. Without you, none of that matters to me. ↗

— Kami Garcia

#beautiful #chaos #death #love #beauty

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. ↗

— Douglas Coupland

#consumer-culture #end-of-the-word #feudalism #technology #age

Why is it beautiful that humanity keeps coming back? So does herpes. ↗

— Isaac Marion

#humanity #nora #warm-bodies #zombie-apocalypse #beauty

I don't want to hear music, I don't want the sunrise to be pink. The world is a liar. Its ugliness is overwhelming; the scraps of beauty make it worse. ↗

— Isaac Marion

#warm-bodies #zombie-apocalypse #beauty

This new world was a vicious, sleek world made of street lights and tight jeans, sharp smiles and fast cars. This was a city, edited. A city, pared down to its bare minimums, beautiful and abusive. ↗

— Maggie Stiefvater

#beauty #city #beauty

You're Hell's Angels, then? What chapter are you from?' REVELATIONS, CHAPTER SIX. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#death #hells-angels #humor #death

Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds. (quoting the Bhagavad-Gita after witnessing the first Nuclear explosion.) ↗

— J. Robert Oppenheimer

#science #wars #death