History Quotes / AftertheEnd

->''We begin in the year 2293, and the apocalypse has come and gone. [[Film/MadMax The Australians are wasting fossil fuels,]] [[Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar the Japanese are punching people a lot,]] [[VideoGame/{{Fallout}} the Americans are taking potshots at mutants with portable nukes,]] and the British are doing... this.''

->"''I do not know with what weapons WorldWarIII will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.''"

-> Four hundred centuries have passed since man stepped out into the cold depths of space. Forty thousand years. An age so long that that its history lies shrouded in legend. Who knows how Mankind came to be scattered across a million disparate worlds? Who remembers the wars that tore ancient Earth asunder and dragged man down to the level of brute beasts? Who could recognise the names of Earth's ancient ruins, of nations destroyed and peoples long since crumbled to dust? To these questions, there can be no answers. From these times there come only whispers of horror and death.

See our mother die\\

In moments dissapear"''

-->-- '''From Man to Squid''' comic, ''The Art of VideoGame/Splatoon1''

-->-- '''The Art of VideoGame/Splatoon1''', ''From Man to Squid'' comic

-->-- ''The Art of Franchise/{{Splatoon}}: From Man to Squid''

-->-- ''VideoGame/{{Splatoon}}: From Man to Squid''

-->-- '''Artyom''', ''VideoGame/MetroLastLight'''

->''"Yet there’s also something oddly poetic about the way in which so many artists - especially those working on the fringes of the system - return to civilization’s demise to craft their idiosyncratic entertainments. In a sense, [[AuthorAppeal they’re rebuilding society in their own image]], commenting on a mainstream that never really expressed a desire to indulge their personal visions. So, in the absence of anything resembling normalcy, [[StartMyOwn these rogues can play God]], rebuilding while [[TheWarOnStraw actively chiding those institutions that they always found stuffy, antiquated, or downright immoral.]] Because when you’ve reached the literal End, and there’s nothing left but rubble, dirt, and dust, all that's left is to do is create something shiny and bright in its place, hoping that those who remain will tune into a frequency which could very well save their lives."''

-->-- '''Nena''', "99 Red Balloons"

->''"Not one will know of the war, not one\\

Would scarcely know that we were gone"''
-->-- '''Sara Teasdale''', "There Will Come Soft Rains"

And I'll be crowned [[DisasterScavengers the community]] [[ButtMonkey kick-it-around]]"''

->''"Learn by heart this poem of mine\\

Learn by heart this poem of mine."''

->''They called it The Last War. Not because it was the last war that was fought, but because it was the last one that would '''ever''' be fought. It began over the usual shit, but this time the men in the fancy hats didn't know when to put their toys away. When it was over, it was over for '''good'''. The lakes were sand, the fields were ash and the cities were all cemeteries. Humanity was a cloud of dust blowing over everything it had built. Senators and their speeches, priests and their bibles... all they were now was soot that floated in the air and clogged in your nostrils. [[DisasterScavengers Cockroaches inherited the earth and mankind's survivors learned their ways.]] No law, faith, or creed would ever unite men again. There was nothing left to come together over, nothing left worth having. Of course, there was still plenty left to fight about.''

-> ''Four hundred centuries have passed since man stepped out into the cold depths of space. Forty thousand years. An age so long that that its history lies shrouded in legend. Who knows how Mankind came to be scattered across a million disparate worlds? Who remembers the wars that tore ancient Earth asunder and dragged man down to the level of brute beasts? Who could recognise the names of Earth's ancient ruins, of nations destroyed and peoples long since crumbled to dust? To these questions, there can be no answers. From these times there come only whispers of horror and death.''

%% One quote per page. I would suggest that the UsefulNotes/AlbertEinstein quote is not the one to use as that single quote: it gives a somewhat misleading impression. Works set AfterTheEnd are not necessarily restricted to primitive technology: consider ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'' -- set AfterTheEnd, but high tech is present in places.

-> ''The explosion that destroyed our city''
-> ''Razed our home, transformed our fields into wasteland''
-> ''Was nothing compare to what was now happening''
-> ''To those who survived''
-->-- '''65 Days of Static''', "Another Code Against the Gone"

->"'ThouShaltNotKill... And ye Shalt build up the old wastes...' Sounds like a [[Literature/TheBible mighty good book o' rules.]] [[TooDumbToLive Too bad they didn't listen...]]"
-->-- '''Grandpa Squirrel''' ("They" being [[HumanitysWake humans]]), ''WesternAnimation/PeaceOnEarth''

-->--'''''WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation''''' on ''VideoGame/DarkSouls''

-->-- ''Webcomic/{{Unshelved}}'', [[http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20081123 2008 Nov. 23]] review of ''Shade's Children'' by Garth Nix

->''The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed. The desert was the apotheosis of all deserts, huge, standing to the sky for what might have been parsecs in all directions. White; blinding; waterless; without feature save for the faint, cloudy haze of the mountains which sketched themselves on the horizon and the devil-grass which brought sweet dreams, nightmares, death. An occasional tombstone sign pointed the way, for once the drifted track that cut its way through the thick crust of alkali had been a highway and coaches had followed it. The world had moved on since then. The world had emptied.''

->I'll try and continue this emergency broadcast for as long as we can hold out here. The city is almost completely deserted now. There are only a few stragglers left on the streets. There are no emergency services, the fires continue to burn out of control. This incredible epidemic of random mass killing has spread to every country in the civilized world. Every hour, more people are becoming infected, being driven to senseless acts of extreme violence. We have gotten reports - sketchy at best - of people... mutating, their bodies swelling and distorting. ''Changing'', somehow. Locally, the mass killings appear to have moved inland. All the major cities on the East Coast are silent. We lost contact with Los Angeles and the West Coast last night, so it's impossible at this time to know how many unaffected people are left. If for any reason you are one of us who hasn't become infected, take shelter immediately. Do not trust any friends or family members. I repeat: do not tru-

->Oh, my god. I'm back. I'm home. All the time, it was... we finally really did it. '''''You maniacs! You blew it up! Ah, damn you! God damn you all to hell!'''''

-->-- Music/TinaTurner, "[[Film/MadMaxBeyondThunderdome One of the Living]]"

-->--'''Prisoner KSC2-303''', ''Film/{{Versus}}''

->''"This is Earth. Mankind's violent nature had resulted in many civil wars and five great world wars.\\

There were some who believed in the future... And some who fled underground... Despite their efforts, mankind perished."''

->"After a million of years of pollution, war, and untold abuses from man-- Earth has been simply used up! It's just a contaminated globe of waste material now!"

-->-- ''[[WebAnimation/ExtraCredits Extra Sci-Fi]]'', "[[url=https://youtu.be/2hieycSRUeM Earth Abides - Dystopias and Apocalypses]]"

->'''Bernard:''' My children are the buried seeds of life. When that time comes, [[WorldWarThree the thing itself]] will open up the door, and my children will go out to [[AdamAndEvePlot inherit the Earth]].

->''"I've planned ahead. We're just three miles from a primary target. A millisecond of brilliant light and we're vaporized. Much more fortunate than the millions who'll wander sightless through the smoldering aftermath. We'll be spared the horror of survival."''