#apocalypse

Nora knows better than most that nothing lasts forever. Life doesn't, love doesn't, hope doesn't, so why would death, hate, or despair? Nothing is permanent. Not even the end of the world. ↗

— Isaac Marion

#death #despair #dystopia #hope #life

During the persecutions under the Emperor Domitian, John was summoned to Rome, where he was tortured by immersion in a pot of boiling oil and subsequently banished to the island of Patmos in the Aegean sea. It was there he wrote his Apocalypse. It was only after the death of Domitian, in A.D. 96, that he returned to Ephesus, where he was still living during the reign of the Emperor Trajan (A.D. 98-117). He became so old and frail that he could no longer walk and had to be carried to meetings and services. All he could manage to say was, "My little children, love one another." He repeated this over and over. ↗

— Gilles Quispel

#love #torture #death

I love the smell of napalm in the morning. ↗

— kilgore

#love

The mind of man is capable of anything. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#man #mind #apocalypse

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

We all love after-the-bomb stories. If we didn't, why would there be so many of them? There's something attractive about all those people being gone, about wandering in a depopulated world, scrounging cans of Campbell's pork and beans, defending one's family from marauders. But some secret part of us thinks it would be good to survive. All those other folks will die. That's what after-the-bomb stories are all about. ↗

— John Varley

#post-apocalypse #sci-fi #survival #family

Thank God for imminent doomsday. ↗

— Jim Butcher

#doomsday #humor #humor