"This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper."
— T.S. Eliot

"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."
— Neil Gaiman (Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch)

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

'REVELATIONS, CHAPTER SIX.'"
— Neil Gaiman (Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch)

"To be Irish is to know that in the end the world will break your heart."
— Daniel Patrick Moynihan

"I love my virginity to the apocalypse."
— Scott Westerfeld

"I love the smell of napalm in the morning."
— kilgore

"What if nobody showed up at Armageddon?"
— C R Strahan

"That's where all of us are standing now, he thought. On the fat kindling of past sins."
— Walter M. Miller Jr. (A Canticle for Leibowitz)

"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."
— Joseph Addison

"…So when the last and dreadful hour
This crumbling pageant shall devour,
The trumpet shall be heard on high,
The dead shall live, the living die,
And Music shall untune the sky"
— John Dryden (The Major Works)

"With extinguished beams the moon joined with the earth and there was no hand to pluck a chord from these dead strings, the earth opened her gaping womb but there was no light to fructify her… terrified stars were hanging in the airless infinity, hanging motionless like cold brass globes, and the sun, black as coal, expired, consumed by its own conflagration."
— Stanislaus Przybyszewski

"But we know the world didn't end, 'cause... check it out."
— Oz

"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 (Shampoo Planet)