Quotes about Apocalypse

Dad almost died of a heart attack in the middle of making Apocalypse Now, the biggest movie of his life. It doesn't make you want to jump into that business. Votes: 6

I grew up with Apocalypse Now and Badlands, so I had a real awe thing going. Votes: 5

Coming Home had been made before and Apocalypse Now and Deer Hunter, different kinds of movies. Votes: 5

As far as love is concerned, possession, power, fusion and disenchantment are the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Votes: 5

Zombies let us explore notions of the apocalypse - no water, food, medical care, the government imploding - while letting us sleep at night. Votes: 5

I'm a huge Coppola fan. But more of 'Apocalypse Now' and 'The Conversation.' 'The Godfather' for me is, like, number three or four on the list. Votes: 5

When I do a novel, I don't really use the script, I use the book; when I did Apocalypse Now, I used Heart of Darkness. Novels usually have so much rich material. Votes: 5

The Book of Revelation is the strangest book in the Bible, and the most controversial. Instead of stories and moral teaching, it offers only visions - dreams and nightmares, the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, earthquakes, plagues and war. Votes: 5

Apocalypse Now' poses questions without any attempt to provide definitive answers, and the film's profound ambiguities are integral to its enduring magic. Votes: 4

I'm really into sci-fi. I always have been. In addition to that, I've always had a tremendous fascination with the lure of the Apocalypse or Judgment Day or the Mayan calendar, etc., etc. Votes: 4

After the 9/11 apocalypse happened in New York City, people, particularly New Yorkers, who breathed in the ash, or saw the results of that, have a tendency to keep seeing echoes and having flashbacks to it. Votes: 4

There's also some element of coming of age during the Reagan administration, which everybody has painted as some glorious time in America, but I remember as being a very, very dark time. There was apocalypse in the air; the punk rock movement made sense. Votes: 4

I've begun to look at the world through apocalypse eyes. Our society, which seems so sturdily built out of concrete and custom, is just a temporary resting place, a hotel our civilization checked into a couple hundred years ago and must one day check out of. Votes: 4

During the first million years of its existence, mankind survived five apocalypses without succumbing to extinction. It endured the Apocalypse of Steel, the Apocalypse of Hydrogen, the Apocalypse of Serotonin, and both Apocalypses of Water, the second of which occurred despite certain contracts to the contrary. Votes: 4

There is no Apocalypse. Votes: 3

Could this be the Apocalypse ? Votes: 3

The apocalypse is not around the corner. Votes: 3

I'm not the apocalypse nor the promised land. Votes: 3

Apocalypse could not be repealed by the democratic process. Votes: 3

My favorite movie of all time is probably 'Apocalypse Now.' Votes: 3

The Apocalypse would definitely put a crimp in my career plans. Votes: 3

Apocalypse has come and gone. We're just grubbing in the ashes. Votes: 3

Apocalypse can mean the unveiling of the deeper self of humanity. Votes: 3

How much does your life have to suck to want the Apocalypse? Votes: 3

Apocalypse has become banal, a set of statistical risk parameters to everyone's existence. Votes: 3

This is the way the world ends, not with a bang, but a whimper. Votes: 3

We are living on the brink of the apocalypse, but the world is asleep. Votes: 3

Apocalypse Now' does not alienate us or deconstruct itself. In fact, it welcomes us in. Votes: 3

Apocalypse is the eye of a needle, through which we pass into a different world. Votes: 3

Don't wake me for the end of the world unless it has very good special effects. Votes: 3

History takes place between the Fall and the Apocalypse, with a narrow escape route called Salvation. Votes: 3

I love Apocalypse Now because it's a war movie, but yet it's not really a movie about war. Votes: 3

Apocalypse does not point to a fiery Armageddon, but to our ignorance and complacency coming to an end. Votes: 3

As we are all solipsists, and all die, the world dies with us. Only very minor literature aims at apocalypse. Votes: 3

It is difficult to write a paradiso when all the superficial indications are that you ought to write an apocalypse. Votes: 3

I realized I probably wouldn't make another film that cuts through commercial and creative things like 'Godfather' or 'Apocalypse.' Votes: 3

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse predict an ailing marriage: Criticism, Defensiveness, Stonewalling and Contempt. The worst of these is contempt. Votes: 3

It's going to look pretty good, then, isn't it," said War testily, "the One Horseman and Three Pedestrians of the Apocalypse. Votes: 3

Okay, boys.” Pestilence's grating voice rang out. “Kill the human and the mutt, and let's get this Apocalypse started! Votes: 3

Army, Marriage, the Church, and Baking: the Four Horseman of the Apocalypse. Fermin Romero de Torres - The Shadow of the Wind. Votes: 3

The probability of apocalypse soon cannot be realistically estimated, but it is surely too high for any sane person to contemplate with equanimity. Votes: 3

All my friends are like, 'Can you be on my side in the zombie apocalypse?' and I'm like, 'I got this.' Votes: 3

Thanks to Reagan, the insane now walk among us babbling about Starbucks and sodomite semen in this zombie apocalypse we call the 21st century. Votes: 3

I have to get stronger, harder, and faster. The only way to get hard enough to walk the Apocalypse Road is in the crucible of battle. Votes: 3

The least-bad scenario is a hard landing, global recession worse than the 1930s. The worst-case borrows from the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: war, famine, pestilence and death. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

There was an advert I rather liked. Devastated woman: "I've just seen the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse!" Husband: "Never mind, love, it's not the end of the world." Votes: 3

This is why I believe that many of our current eschatologies, intoxicated by dubious interpretations of John’s Apocalypse are not only ignorant and wrong, but dangerous and immoral. Votes: 3

We might be on the brink of an apocalypse if, instead of poor people with suicide bombs killing middle class guys, middle-class people with suicide bombs started killing rich guys. Votes: 3

I always knew what I thought the theme was, the core, in one word. In 'The Godfather' it was succession. In 'The Conversation' it was privacy. In 'Apocalypse' it was morality. Votes: 3

I think in the long run, it will be better for us if we solve our problems without suffering through some terrible disaster. I like the idea of change without Apocalypse. Votes: 3

Beware the Four Horsemen of the Information Apocalypse: terrorists, drug dealers, kidnappers, and child pornographers. Seems like you can scare any public into allowing the government to do anything with those four. Votes: 3

The movie I've seen the most times, boy, that's a tough one. It would have to be a toss-up between Apocalypse Now and the first Star Wars. I think the first Star Wars. Votes: 3

There's something unsettling about the education of a child who comfortably enumerates the rules for surviving zombie apocalypse but finds it uncomfortable to enumerate the rules of his grandparents' faith, if he knows them. Votes: 3

The Brotherhood of Evil Mutants has a huge plan that stems from the earlier issues of Uncanny X-Force. Archangel's fall was really the smaller consequence from killing the child Apocalypse. This is the big consequence. Votes: 3

The year 1999, seventh month, [or simply "sept"] From the sky will come a great King of Terror. To bring back to life the great King of the Mongols, Before and after Mars to reign by good luck. Votes: 3

I hate cosmetics companies. They get you addicted to the perfect lipstick or nail polish and then, six months later, they discontinue it. You have to buy your favorite colors like you're storing up for the Apocalypse. Votes: 3

They hope for the Apocalypse like a self-fulfilling prophecy Tell me when do we stop it? Do they ask you your religion before you rent an apartment? Is the answer burning Korans so that we can defend Islamics? Votes: 3

The first half of Vietnam was fought to win the war, and the second half of Vietnam was soldiers going haywire without a mission, getting further and further towards our friend, Captain Kurtz and our friends at 'Apocalypse Now.' Votes: 3

In TheColorful Apocalypse, Greg Bottoms explores the frontier between inspiration and psychosis with the expressive power, the passionate fervor, and the faithfully unflinching honesty for which his work is deservedly known. This book is incisive, startling, and often genuinely moving. Votes: 3

I think that the Apocalypse is going to be in this new way of thinking. Somewhere between now and 2020, there has got to be a break though. Not just in science, we've done that, but a breakthrough in the human mind. Votes: 3

The 'coming of the Self' is an apocalypse for the ego, the 'you' that wants to hang along for the ride. It may be that the only way to survive the Apocalypse is to undergo it, first, within your own being. Votes: 3

There's no sense drawing attention to yourself, Li.""Hellooooo. I'm aHorseman of the Apocalypse, and I'm betrothed to the most infamous, most powerful demon in existence. I couldn't draw more attention to myself i I wore Lady Gaga's meat dress to a PETA convention. Votes: 3

Who is there with you?" "Raphael" Kate's voice snapped. "I'll be in Atlanta in three hours. Where are you?" "I said it's nothing major." "Bullshit. You wouldn't work with Raphael unless the Apocalypse was imminent and that was the only way to prevent it. Votes: 3

The war was won on both sides: by the Vietnamese on the ground, by the Americans in the electronic mental space. And if the one side won an ideological and political victory, the other made Apocalypse Now and that has gone right around the world. Votes: 3

Wild, dark times are rumbling toward us, and the prophet who wishes to write a new apocalypse will have to invent entirely new beasts, and beasts so terrible that the ancient animal symbols of St. John will seem like cooing doves and cupids in comparison. Votes: 3

Every person should have their escape route planned. I think everyone has an apocalypse fantasy, what would I do in the event of the end of the world, and we just basically - me and Nick - said what would we do, where would we head? Votes: 3

Religion looks forward to the destruction of the world.... Perhaps half aware that its unsupported arguments are not entirely persuasive, and perhaps uneasy about its own greedy accumulation of temporal power and wealth, religion has never ceased to proclaim the Apocalypse and the day of judgment. Votes: 3

Francis [Ford Coppola] was on the cover of Time Magazine for One From The Heart and for owning a studio, and he was fresh off of Apocalypse [Now] and The Godfather films, so he was at the absolute top of his game and legend [in The Outsiders ]. Votes: 3

Let us think today of the prospect of sharing in a sublime and blessed existence such as is portrayed in the text of the Apocalypse before us, and let us ask ourselves whether it should or should not make any difference in our present state of being. Votes: 3

CHEERS, CARTER. At least you have the sense to hand me the microphone for important things. Honestly, he drones on and on about his plans for the Apocalypse, but he makes no plans at all for the school dance. My brother's priorities are severely skewed. Sadie Kane Votes: 3

I believe in the premillenial, pre-tribulational coming of Christ for all of his church, and to summarize that, your first poll, do you believe Jesus coming the second time will be in the future, I would vote yes with the 59 percent and with Billy Graham and most evangelicals. Votes: 3

Obviously if you're Coppola going into 'Apocalypse Now' off the back of the two 'Godfathers,' you're in a much better position than coming off the back of something like 'Dust Devil,' which had scarcely been released, and was pretty much lying around in film cans in different places. Votes: 3

What scares me? Oh, now that's a big question. I don't know what scares me- cockroaches, nuclear apocalypse. Fear is an interesting thing. It has a place in all of our lives. I try to be as fearless as possible. I don't always succeed, but I like to think I try. Votes: 3

A zombie apocalypse isn't the most jovial situation. Votes: 2

I don't think you can be from the Caribbean and not know a certain amount about the apocalypse. Votes: 2

I can't imagine Jon Cryer performing with the New York Philharmonic isn't one of the signs of apocalypse. Votes: 2

Once we start believing that the apocalypse is coming, the amygdala goes on high alert, filtering out most anything that says otherwise. Votes: 2

I do believe that I will see the apocalypse in my lifetime. And when it comes, I'm not repenting for anything I've done. Votes: 2

I don't believe in a biological apocalypse, but I think there is stormy biological weather ahead as the human population continues to grow. Votes: 2

I love conventional apocalypse movies. In movies, I like to be with the president, or the scientist trying to solve the problem, but that's not the kind of fiction that I like to read. Votes: 2

In a zombie apocalypse, I expect insane things to happen. Votes: 1

One thing that annoys me is when you see women in these terrible and incredible situations with perfectly glossed lips. You're not going to look good in the apocalypse. Votes: 1

I grew up during the Cold War, when everything seemed very tenuous. For many years, right up until the fall of the Berlin Wall, I had vivid nightmares of nuclear apocalypse. Votes: 1

Nuclear apocalypse - who do you need? Actors are probably not top of the list. What can I do for you? I can pretend to be somebody who can grow you some nice crops. Votes: 1

Legion' was a lot of fun to shoot. It was a real unique apocalypse scenario that takes place in a diner out in the desert. Very much like a drive-in B-movie, but in a good way. Votes: 1

I have a zombie apocalypse kit at my house. I've got freeze dried food, I've got a real deal medical kit, like, a doctor could perform a surgery with this medical kit. I got all kinds of everything. Votes: 1

There's a lot of speculation on what the zombie apocalypse thing means. I have a feeling that it's kind of an expression of our subconscious fears. I think we know that something big and impossible - some enormous crash, equalizing crash, whatever - may be coming around the corner. Votes: 1

Everyone sees something different in 'Endgame': a biblical apocalypse, a portrait of painful co-dependency, a confession of guilt and dignity in the face of death, a night of baffling hopelessness, a meaningless babble. Each interpretation reveals an absurd truth - not about the play, but about the person watching it. Votes: 1

I used to stay up all night playing 'Resident Evil 2,' and it wouldn't stop until the sun came up. Then I'd walk outside at dawn's first light, looking at the empty streets of London, and it was like life imitating art. It felt like I'd stepped into an actual zombie apocalypse. Votes: 1

Reactionary conservatives are smiling through the racial apocalypse. To them, race baiting is a joke, as 'humorist' Rush Limbaugh will tell you when he's calling Mexicans 'stupid.' Or it's a matter of semantics when they claim that Sonia Sotomayor is a 'racialist' which, far as I can tell, is the smooth jazz version of being a racist. Votes: 1

What's important in a cellar is having wines that have a broad range of drinkability, which California Cabernet does. Wines with a broad range of drinkability give you a lot of flexibility; they are the sort of wines that make me feel secure. I think of my wine cellar as security - if the apocalypse comes, I can just go down to the cellar. Votes: 1

Your apocalypse was fab. Votes: 0

If the apocalypse comes...beep me! Votes: 0

I love my virginity to the apocalypse. Votes: 0

The end approaches, but the apocalypse is long lived. Votes: 0

I already survived one apocalypse, I don't need another. Votes: 0

I can see we're in for a fabulous evening's apocalypse. Votes: 0

Selfishness alone is sufficient to bring apocalypse upon a nation. Votes: 0

The real zombie-apocalypse is the pandemic of drama and mediocrity. Votes: 0

That's it. New rule: no more flirting during the zombie apocalypse Votes: 0

Even apocalypse looks less dire when viewed over a plate of bacon. Votes: 0

What were they thinking? 'It's an alien apocalypse! Quick, grab the beer! Votes: 0

The two horsewomen of the apocalypse still win, despite their dwindling numbers. Votes: 0

I see the meaning of apocalypse as an unveiling of our deeper self. Votes: 0

...All I want to talk about is the oncoming apocalypse in my brain. Votes: 0

The apocalypse is the millennium, and the psychedelics move you into the future. Votes: 0

How could you possibly stop the apocalypse when I'm atomic bombin' the populace? Votes: 0

You can't take highways during the apocalypse, because they'll be packed with panicky people. Votes: 0

My mind is filled with cataclysm and apocalypse. I wish for earthquakes, eruptions, flood. Votes: 0

I have heard the languages of apocalypse, and now I shall embrace the silence. Votes: 0

This is how the zombie apocalypse starts," Cas said. "You don't screw with death, yo! Votes: 0

If it makes you feel any better, this isn't my first apocalypse. There is hope. Votes: 0

Even in an apocalypse like this, surely running out of Coke qualified as a disaster. Votes: 0

I wasn't entirely sure, but a polite John Pritkin might be a sign of the apocalypse. Votes: 0

The country has turned its loyal inhabitants into wanderers similar to the survivors of an apocalypse. Votes: 0

We're just helping out the Christians by bringing about the apocalypse. They can all go to heaven Votes: 0

Even if there's a zombie apocalypse, you'll still be able to travel using the Tesla Supercharging system. Votes: 0

Shared libraries are the work of the devil, the one true sign that the apocalypse is at hand. Votes: 0

My Zombie apocalypse plan is simple but effective; I fully intend to die in the very first wave. Votes: 0

I sat in the dark and thought: There's no big apocalypse. Just an endless procession of little ones. Votes: 0

Man creates what he calls history as a screen to conceal the workings of the apocalypse from himself. Votes: 0

I didn't even think about suggesting he take the boots off. There'd probably be a apocalypse or something. Votes: 0

But it goes without saying that Michael Jordan could never date Pamela Anderson. That would cause the apocalypse. Votes: 0

What are Americans still buying? Big Macs,Campbell's soup,Hershey's chocolate and Spam--the four food groups of the apocalypse. Votes: 0

Make the most of your life. You only live once. Unless of course the event of a zombie apocalypse! Votes: 0

I see a sequence of seven main phases: creation,revolution or exodus (Israel in Egypt), law, wisdom, prophecy, gospel, and apocalypse. Votes: 0

There's just no real job security when you're shooting a show about an apocalypse, and anybody could die at any time. Votes: 0

I'm not prepared for a zombie apocalypse. I need more bottled water, a shotgun, and stronger abs. I have plenty of canner food. Votes: 0

If we could destroy custom at a blow and see the stars as a child sees them, we should need no other apocalypse Votes: 0

We think to dance, and dance in thought. But to hibernate in the mind, is to bring upon us an apocalypse of the Soul. Votes: 0

Here is the alphabet of the pulsing apocalypse that is fatherhood, a book in love with what words, like parents, create: beauty, terror, awe. Votes: 0

We are in the middle of what looks increasingly like the zombie apocalypse. Moaning people don't need help. Moaning people are intending to eat us. Votes: 0

Catastrophe, riots, factories blowing up, armies in flight, flood - the ear can detect a whole apocalypse in the starry night of the human body." Votes: 0

Catastrophe, riots, factories blowing up, armies in flight, flood - the ear can detect a whole apocalypse in the starry night of the human body. Votes: 0

People could say a lot of negative things about the apocalypse, but there was no arguing the air quality in Los Angeles had really improved. Votes: 0

The man with the most guns survives the zombie apocalypse, but the man with the most books, locks the door and forgets it ever happened. Votes: 0

In our researches on the likely economic apocalypse it's become clear what is the prime survival tool for hard times: friends. Good friends. Lots of them. Votes: 0

So the villains aren't gay-hating Islamists or women killing tyrants, but actually us: an American Congress bent on the apocalypse. Don't we understand? Iranians love their children too. Votes: 0

I would be the worst president in the history of the United States. Unless you want the apocalypse to happen really soon then yes, I'll run for president. Votes: 0

Soft things are terrifying. They're the real signals of death. Images of strength can never be that terrifying. It's the images of weakness that are a real apocalypse. Votes: 0

Literature is a human apocalypse, man's revelation to man, and criticism is not a body of adjudications, but the awareness of that revelation, the last judgement of mankind. Votes: 0

The things that I have loved have always been those extremes where there has been some kind of apocalypse in the person's life, and they come out unscathed or scathed. Votes: 0

If I could make one wish, I wouldn't ask for world peace. I'd wish for a real zombie apocalypse. I'll take Romero zombies any day over this counterfeit harmony bullshit. Votes: 0

I am like a child ready for the apocalypse, I am the apocalypse itself, that is to say, the ultimate and first event of the end, the unveiling and the verdict. Votes: 0

I am still not taking my "career" in music for granted. It is constantly surprising that it works. Generally my thinking about the future has this assumption of an impending apocalypse. Votes: 0

That even an apocalypse can be made to seem part of the ordinary horizon of expectation constitutes an unparalleled violence that is being done to our sense of reality, to our humanity. Votes: 0

I first became an Alan Moore fan in Covent Garden on a Saturday afternoon in 1987, when I bought a copy of 'Watchmen,' his graphic novel about ageing superheroes and nuclear apocalypse. Votes: 0

My dream of an apocalypse that was the Antichrist Superstar has unfolded. I could see that they only looked and acted like humans, but they had lost their souls, they were Mechanical Animals Votes: 0

Then you'd better listen, because me sounding like Bronte is one of the signs of the apocalypse-and if the end fo the world is coming, good deeds could earn you Judgment day brownie points. Votes: 0

So I've always been kind of an apocalyptic kind of kid, and looking back at the movies I've done, there's some kind of apocalypse in them. So that must be what scares me... besides Republicans. Votes: 0