Top 60 Apocalypse Quotes

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

Historically, Vietnam movies have been profitable. All of them. ‘Platoon,’ ‘Full Metal Jacket,’ ‘Apocalypse Now,’ ‘The Deer Hunter.’ You’re looking at movies that have been not pretty successful, but very successful. The foreign numbers have been extraordinary.

The man-made apocalypse we are facing was not written in the stars; it is a notion that grew like mould from the texts of a few frustrated, feather-wielding monks.

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.

The show is ’12 Monkeys,’ and I’m playing the role that Bruce Willis played in the original film ’12 Monkeys.’ It is a show about time travel. My character is from a future post-apocalypse, and he has been given a mission to go back in time to essentially set things right and stop the apocalypse. No big deal.

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.

One of the things that interested me about Five was the trauma that was contributed via the apocalypse. I wanted to make sure that I got his PTSD correct.

The U.S. is an optimistic nation. No candidate has ever won the American presidency by speaking primarily to people’s deepest fears and by manufacturing a sense of apocalypse – that our leaders ‘can’t do anything right,’ that things are utterly falling apart.

I’d like to avoid the environmental apocalypse if I could. Zombies, robots – I don’t know – I’d probably do alright hidden in the middle of the herd and sacrificing people to keep myself alive, but where you gonna hide when all the food is gone?

Five has sort of had his own little life aside from everyone. He spent 45 years in the apocalypse, and that took a toll on him and was a big part of his overall trauma.

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.

‘Apocalypse Now’ was my craziest experience ever. I was 14 years old, and I’d lied about my age to get the role. I haven’t had another film top it.

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

I’m addicted to avocados, and I’ll put them with anything, particularly chillies. Can you imagine if they became extinct? That would be like the apocalypse, no?

A zombie apocalypse isn’t the most jovial situation.

Whatever Brett Favre does, it’s a sign of the apocalypse.

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.

‘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.

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.

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

With EarthEcho Expedition: Acid Apocalypse, we are working with youth leaders and noted experts on the changing chemistry of our ocean to help illuminate one of our most pressing and inscrutable environmental issues.

‘Apocalypse Now’ does not alienate us or deconstruct itself. In fact, it welcomes us in.

It is true that I will confess that I have an incredible fascination for pop-culture stories about the Apocalypse and the end of the world.

I am happiest now. There’s nothing like running out of time to make you realise you’re in the right skin, with the right person, and that the Apocalypse will happen with or without you.

It’s funny: when I set out to create the world of ‘California,’ I didn’t give the type of apocalypse much thought… I simply set my two characters, Cal and Frida, in a depleted world and moved through it intuitively.

Brexit happened. Donald Trump is president. If Ann Widdecombe won CBB Year of the Woman, it would be the third sign of the 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.

The physical and emotional qualifications to survive an apocalypse are naturally equalizing.

The apocalypse is not around the corner.

Stephen King in general, as well as films of the apocalypse from the ’70s, had a big influence on ‘Zone One.’

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.

I’m not the apocalypse nor the promised land.

I don’t know that Five was a good person before he got stuck in the apocalypse, in a way that really made him a bit more open-minded.

If there was a zombie apocalypse, I would use my yodeling to kill every single one of them.

I don’t know if my father realizes this, but I remember sitting there watching ‘Apocalypse Now,’ watching Pacino in ‘Scarface’ and watching James Dean in ‘East of Eden’ with him. And him he’s not in the arts at all just pointing out ‘the greats.’

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.

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.

My favorite movie of all time is probably ‘Apocalypse Now.’

If one wants to talk about the end of the world, the apocalypse, you’re talking about the world itself. It’s not Southern California breaking into the sea. The story is global, and it requires that kind of approach.

Any way you want to slice it, the thing about the apocalypse is, since the beginning of time, it’s the projection of mankind’s worst fear. The day that, as a race, our number is up.

I don’t worry about a zombie apocalypse. Mainly because it’s unlikely, but also because I think I’d be pretty good in that type of emergency.

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.

I realized I probably wouldn’t make another film that cuts through commercial and creative things like ‘Godfather’ or ‘Apocalypse.’

I can’t imagine Jon Cryer performing with the New York Philharmonic isn’t one of the signs of apocalypse.

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

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.

The digital apocalypse continues to blight the lives of television producers, music-industry executives and newspaper publishers, all of whom are scrambling to figure out how to reconfigure their business models in such a way as to allow them to make an honest buck.

Elon Musk is worried about AI apocalypse, but I am worried about people losing their jobs. The society will have to adapt to a situation where people learn throughout their lives depending on the skills needed in the marketplace.

In the apocalypse, I think those average, mediocre folks are the ones who are going to live.

I don’t think you can be from the Caribbean and not know a certain amount about the apocalypse.

We should be concerned about the impact of climate change on vulnerable populations, without question. There is nothing automatic about adaptation. But it’s clear that there is simply no science that supports claims that rising sea levels threaten civilization much less the apocalypse.

The USDA labs in Ames, Iowa, are level-four security clearance. Every nasty thing you can imagine is stored there. Ground zero for the apocalypse. And there’s a day care right across the street.

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

In the first season, Five was not very inclusive and he felt he needed to do everything himself. He didn’t really open up to his family about the apocalypse. By the end of that season, he goes to them for help. He realizes he needs The Umbrella Academy – the full force of his family.