History Quotes / TheEndoftheworldasweknowit

-> ''”Perhaps in the world's destruction it would be possible at last to see how it was made. Oceans, mountains. The ponderous counterspectacle of things ceasing to be. The sweeping waste, hydroptic and coldly secular. The silence.”''
-->-- ''Literature/TheRoad

[[TitleOnlyChorus It's the end of the world as we know it]]\\

[[CosyCatastrophe And I feel fine]]"''

-> ''"[[HostileWeather I hear hurricanes a-blowing]]''\\
''[[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt I know the end is coming soon]]''\\
''[[TheGreatFlood I fear rivers over flowing]]''\\
''[[BeastOfTheApocalypse I hear the voice of rage and ruin]]"''\\
-- '''Music/CreedenceClearwaterRevival,''' [[{{Music/GreenRiverAlbum}} Bad Moon Rising]]

-> ''"[[WorldWarIII Everywhere the atom bombs are dropping]]''\\
''[[HumanitysWake It's the end of all humanity]]''\\
''[[DullSurprise No more time for last minute shopping]]''\\
''[[FaceDeathWithDignity It's time to face your final destiny]]"''\\
-- '''Music/WeirdAlYankovic,''' [[{{Music/PolkaParty}} Christmas At Ground Zero]]

->''"Turn around go back down''\\
''Back the way you came''\\
''And shout a warning to the nations''\\
''That the sword of God is raised''\\
''On Babylon that mighty city''\\
''Rich in treasure, wide in fame''\\
''It shall cause our tower to fall''\\
''And make it be a pyre of flame''\\
''Oh, God, the pride of man''\\
''Broken in the dust again"''\\
--'''Hamilton Camp''', "Pride of Man"

->''"Heard the world is ending soon I assumed that they told ya''\\
''They tryna dinosaur us, so [[AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence now it's time to go up]]"''\\
--'''{{Music/Gorillaz}}''', "Ascension"

-->-- "[[http://exiledonline.com/war-nerd-apocalypse-never/1/ Apocalypse Never]]", Creator/TheWarNerd
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->'''Master Fung''': It has begun, 1,000 years of darkness.\\
'''Kimiko''': Why 1,000?\\
'''Master Fung''': Well it is really 962 years, but 1,000 sounds more ominious.
-->-- ''WesternAnimation/XiaolinShowdown''

-> '''Jack Sullivan''': ''"Current status-- the word is cuckoo bananas. Zombies and giganto-monsters have taken over my town and also maybe the world. You probably know what zombies are, but just in case… spooky eyes, freaky moans, and if they bite you, you’re one of them, undead. But if monsters get you, you’re just dead. Finito. Done-zo."''
-->-- WesternAnimation/TheLastKidsOnEarth

''They tryna dinosaur us, so [[AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence now it's time to go up]]"''

->''"Fine? That's the way you want it? Story's over. Welcome to the end."''

->The arrival of Ascension is a promise kept, a long-term loan coming due. It would be pretty cheap to keep the shadow looming on the horizon, [[YankTheDogsChain but ever receding the closer we get to it]]. Instead of chasing shadows forever, mages must now confront them and win their way to the light. Making Ascension real is the big payoff for years of magic - it's the ultimate act of willworking, to bring one's very vision of the End to fruition. But who's doing the willworking here? Is this something wrought by the [[LaResistance Traditions]]' years of struggle, or the endgame of the [[TheMan Technocracy]]'s bid for control? Is it the result of [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity Marauder]] [[RealityWarper madness]] or [[EvilSorcerer Nephandi]] [[PowerOfTheVoid taint]]? Or is the universe itself finally playing its hand, proving once and for all that cosmological constant can't be ignored, no matter how much magic is used to gloss over it?\\

'''Riley''': You mean like, the apocalypse?\\
-- ''Film/{{Bokeh}}''

-->-- '''Music/CreedenceClearwaterRevival,''' [[{{Music/GreenRiverAlbum}} Bad Moon Rising]]

-> ''"I hear hurricanes a-blowing''
-> ''I know the end is coming soon''
-> ''I fear rivers over flowing ''
-> ''I hear the voice of rage and ruin"''

-> ''"Everywhere the atom bombs are dropping''
-> ''It's the end of all humanity''
-> ''No more time for last minute shopping''
-> ''It's time to face your final destiny"''
-->-- '''Music/WeirdAlYankovic,''' [[{{Music/PolkaParty}} Christmas At Ground Zero]]

->'''Janai''': "Is this it?… Is this the rapture?"\\
'''Riley''': You mean like, the apocalypse?"\\
-- ''Film/{{Bokeh}}''

-- ''Film/{{Bokeh}}''

->'''Janai''': Is this it?… Is this the rapture?\\
'''Riley''': You mean like?\\
-->-- ''Film/{{Bokeh}}''

-->-- ''Film/Bokeh''

->''"Apocalypse is a frame of mind. A belief. A surrender to inevitability. It is a despair for the future. It is the [[HopeCrusher death of hope]]."''
-->-- '''[[CardCarryingVillain Nicodemus]]''', ''Literature/DeathMasks''

->''"[[TropeNamer It's the end of the world as we know it]]\\
[[TitleOnlyChorus It's the end of the world as we know it]]\\
[[RuleOfThree It's the end of the world as we know it]]\\
[[CosyCatastrophe And I feel fine]]"''
-->-- '''Music/{{REM}},''' [[Music/{{Document}} "It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)"]]

->'''Polo:''' Feather Face! If you do not charm that girl pigeon with the power of dance, the world... could be DESTROYED!\\
'''City Face:''' Oh nooo! Not the world! That would be just super awful for EVERYBODY!
-->-- ''[[Webcomic/GunnerkriggCourt City Face]]''

->"''There's never gonna be an end of the world. There's gonna be an end of you, you personally; but the world won't even flinch. You'll be lucky to get an obituary, a half inch next to the weather report on the back page of Section B. The world is never gonna end. That's what's depressing.''"
-->-- '''Creator/TheWarNerd - [[http://exiledonline.com/war-nerd-apocalypse-never/1/ Apocalypse Never]]'''

->'''Giles''': It's the end of the world. Everyone dies. It's rather important, really.\\
'''Willow''': So what do we do?\\
'''Buffy''': I stop it.
-->-- ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''

->'''Master Fung''': It has begun, 1,000 years of darkness.\\
'''Kimiko''': Why 1,000?\\
'''Master Fung''': Well it is really 962 years, but 1,000 sounds more ominious.
-->-- ''WesternAnimation/XiaolinShowdown''

->'''[[WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy Eddy]]''': Rise and shine! Get your Ed Flakes Cereal here!\\
'''Edd''': Eddy, it's the apocalypse!\\
'''Eddy''': [[OhNoNotAgain What, again?!]]\\
'''Edd''': Don't look now.\\
'''Mario Head''': Remember me?\\
(the Eds scream in response)
-->-- ''Creator/MoBrosStudios'', ''Candace Opens an Interdimensional Portal''

->''You lot, you spend all your time thinking about dying, like you're gonna get killed by eggs, or beef, or global warming, or asteroids. But you never take time to imagine the impossible. That perhaps you make it. Maybe you survive. This is the year 5.5/apple/26, five billion years in your future, and this is the day... Hold on... This is the day the sun expands. [[DissonantSerenity Welcome to the end of the world!]]''
-->- '''The Doctor''', ''Series/DoctorWho'', "[[TitleDrop The End of the World]]"

->''So! ''[[PunyEarthlings Earthlings!]]'' Basically...um...end of the world. [[PunctuatedForEmphasis HERE. COME.]] [[TerribleTicking THE DRUMS!]]''
-->- '''TheMaster''', ''Series/DoctorWho'', "The Sound of Drums"

->Ruling out the ice capes melting, meteors becoming crashed-into-us, the ozone layer leaving, and the sun exploding... we're definitely going to blow ourselves up.
-->- [[http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/end The End of the World]]

->"The end of the world approaches! Armageddon is nigh! All will be darkness and screaming! ''No one will escape the suffering!!'' [[MoodWhiplash ...but it could be fun though."]]
-->-- '''Marwan the Mystic''', ''Series/StudioC'', (An Unfortunate Fortune)

->Every [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent Garou]] who will fight in the Last Battle has already been born. The Eye of [[EldritchAbomination the Wyrm]] has opened. The Seventh Sign of the Prophecy of the Phoenix is about to be seen. The champions have been chosen, and the battle lines have been drawn.
->The Apocalypse has arrived.
-->--''TabletopGame/WerewolfTheApocalypse - Apocalypse''

->The arrival of Ascension is a promise kept, a long-term loan coming due. It would be pretty cheap to keep the shadow looming on the horizon, [[YankTheDogsChain but ever receding the closer we get to it]]. Instead of chasing shadows forever, mages must now confront them and win their way to the light. Making Ascension real is the big payoff for years of magic - it's the ultimate act of willworking, to bring one's very vision of the End to fruition. But who's doing the willworking here? Is this something wrought by the [[LaResistance Traditions]]' years of struggle, or the endgame of the [[TheMan Technocracy]]'s bid for control? Is it the result of [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity Marauder]] [[RealityWarper madness]] or [[EvilSorcerer Nephandi]] [[PowerOfTheVoid taint]]? Or is the universe itself finally playing its hand, proving once and for all that cosmological constant can't be ignored, no matter how much magic is used to gloss over it?
->So, the time is nigh. Lay down your cards and reveal your hand. Make your last orders - the bar's shutting down, the establishment is closing. Time to go home.
-->--''TabletopGame/MageTheAscension - Ascension''

->"For Sunohara to have such a cute sister, and for Okazaki to have such a cute girlfriend... If it were the end of the world, it'd be bad for the sister and Furukawa-san, but... I'll say it. It's the end of the world."
-->-- '''Misae''', ''VisualNovel/{{Clannad}}''

"Of course the super-crooks weren't alone." She shook her head. "Sometimes they fought alongside mega machines from god only know where. At other times, locals would suffer when gangs of crooks and machines and star-people battled it out." She laid her hands on the table, clenched together so hard the whites of her knuckles showed. "And let's not forget the animals. It's like the whole world has gone mad. Dinosaurs…real live dinosaurs. And creatures that no human should ever have to see. Animals mutated beyond recognition."

-->--'''Funeral Choir''', ''Film/{{Faust}}''

-->--'''James Cole''', ''Film/TwelveMonkeys''

-->--'''ComicBook/{{Ultron}}''', ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron''

'''Venkman''': Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together... MASS HYSTERIA!
-->--''Film/Ghostbusters1984''

It's the end of the world as we know it\\

-->-- '''Music/{{REM}},''' [[TitleOnlyChorus "It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)"]]

->'''[[WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy Eddy]]''': Rise and shine! Get your Ed Flakes Cereal here!
->'''Edd''': Eddy, it's the apocalypse!
->'''Eddy''': [[OhNoNotAgain What, again?!]]
->'''Edd''': Don't look now.
->'''Mario Head''': Remember me?
->(the Eds scream in response)

->Ruling out the ice capes melting, meteors becoming crayshd-into-us, the ozone layer leaving, and the sun exploding... we're definitely going to blow ourselves up.