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“And starward drifts the stricken world,
Lone in unalterable gloom
Dead, with a universe for tomb,
Dark, and to vaster darkness whirled.
(“The Testimony of the Suns”)”
― George Sterling, The Thirst of Satan: Poems of Fantasy and Terror

tags: apocalypse, armageddon, darkness, death

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“Apocalypse is a frame of mind." [Nicodemus] said then. "A belief. A surrender to inevitability. It is a despair for the future. It is the death of hope.”
― Jim Butcher, Death Masks

tags: apocalypse, philosophy

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“Sure, at some level scientists know nanobots will destroy mankind. They just can't resist seeing how it happens.”
― Cracked.com, You Might Be a Zombie and Other Bad News

tags: apocalypse, humour, science

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“What silence rules the ghostly hours
That guard the close of human sleep!
(“The Testimony of the Suns”)”
― George Sterling, The Thirst of Satan: Poems of Fantasy and Terror

tags: apocalypse, armageddon, silence, sleep

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“Do we not each dream of dreams? Do we not dance on the notes of lost
memories? Then are we not each dreamers of tomorrow and yesterday, since dreams
play when time is askew? Are we not all adrift in the constant sea of trial and when all is done, do we not all yearn for ships to carry us home?”
― Nathan Reese Maher