Line #1 Quotes/AfterTheEnd


1	->"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."
2	-->--''[[https://www.secrethandshakecinema.com/post/radioactive-dreams-six-string-samurai-post-apocalyptic-cult-cinema Radioactive Dreams: Six-String Samurai & Post Apocalyptic Cult Cinema]]'' by Jacob Knight
3
4	->[[AC:[[ThisIsNoTimeToPanic Remain calm.]]]]
5	->[[AC:[[TheCaligula The regent]] [[BlatantLies endures.]]]]
6	->[[AC:Alexei lives.]]
7	->[[AC:The Holy Russian Empire shall endure.]]
8	->[[AC:[[MadnessMantra There is much to be done.]]]]
9	-->-- '''"The Silent Regent" description''', ''VideoGame/TheNewOrderLastDaysofEurope''
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11	->''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,]] [[Franchise/{{Fallout}} the Americans are taking potshots at mutants with portable nukes,]] and the British are doing... this.''
12	-->-- '''[[WebVideo/BrowsHeldHigh Kyle "Oancitizen" Kallgren]]''' on ''Film/{{Zardoz}}''
13
14	->''"It's all over and I'm standin' pretty\
15	In this dust that was a city\
16	If I could find a souvenir\
17	Just to prove the world was here"''
18	-->-- '''Music/{{Nena}}''', "99 Red Balloons"
19
20	->''"Oh we're so tired\
21	Watching the world expire\
22	Time that we retire\
23	Up in [[RuinsOfTheModernAge cathedral spires]]"''.
24	-->-- "Cathedral Spires" by '''Music/JudasPriest'''
25
26	->''"The once green earth\
27	Is scattered with horror and gray\
28	No winners, just losers\
29	Who die with a few months delay"''
30	-->-- "Straight to Hell" by '''Music/RunningWild'''
31
32	->''"The war is over\
33	The crypt we now taste\
34	In the late 1900's, there is no human race\
35	We split the planet with atomic birth\
36	Man has died\
37	We seal the urn"''
38	-->-- "Beyond The Black" by '''Music/MetalChurch'''
39
40	->"Not one will know of the war, not one\
41	Will care at last when it is done.\
42	Not one would care, neither bird nor tree\
43	If mankind perished utterly.\
44	And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn,\
45	Would scarcely know that we were gone"
46	-->-- "There Will Come Soft Rains", '''Creator/SaraTeasdale''',
47
48	->''"Termination (termination)\
49	Expiration (expiration)\
50	Cancellation (cancellation): Human Race\
51	Expectation (expectation)\
52	Liberation (liberation)\
53	Population (population) laid to waste\
54	See our mother\
55	Put to death\
56	See our mother die\
57	Smouldering decay\
58	Take her breath away\
59	Millions of our years\
60	In minutes disappears\
61	Darkening in vain\
62	Decadence remains\
63	All is said and done\
64	Never is the sun\
65	Never!"''
66	-->-- '''Music/{{Metallica}}''', "Blackened"
67
68	->''"Quiet now\
69	Will we [[FuturePrimitive gather to conjure the rain down?]]\
70	Or will we now\
71	[[UndergroundCity Build a civilization below ground?]]\
72	And I'll be crowned [[DisasterScavengers the community]] kick-it-around"''
73	-->-- '''Music/TheDecemberists''', "Calamity Song"
74
75	->"Learn by heart this poem of mine\
76	so, dead, I still will share the time\
77	when you cannot endure a house\
78	deprived of water, light, or gas,\
79	and, stumbling out to find a cave,\
80	roots, berries, nuts to stay alive,\
81	get you a cudgel, find a well,\
82	a bit of land, and, if it's held,\
83	kill the owner, eat the corpse.\
84	I'll trudge beside your faltering steps\
85	between the ruins' broken stones,\
86	whispering 'You are dead; you're done!\
87	Where would you go? That soul you own\
88	froze solid when you left your town.'\
89	Learn by heart this poem of mine."
90	-->-- '''György Faludy''', ''Learn by Heart This Poem of Mine''
91
92	->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.
93	-->-- The opening for ''Webcomic/WeaponBrown''
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95	-> Four hundred centuries have passed since man stepped out into the cold depths of space. Forty thousand years. An age so long 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.
96	-->-- ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000''
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98	-> ''"A long, long time ago, there weren't any monsters. People used to live in one place and never move. They worked in small rooms and slept in small rooms and only went outside to move between the rooms. We know this because sometimes we find books and papers in the ruins."''
99	-->-- '''Clorian''', ''Webcomic/AMomentOfPeace''
100
101	->"''I do not know with what weapons WorldWarIII will be fought, but World War IV [[FuturePrimitive will be fought with sticks and stones]].''"
102	-->-- '''UsefulNotes/AlbertEinstein'''
103
104	-> ''The explosion that destroyed our city\
105	Razed our home, transformed our fields into wasteland\
106	Was nothing compare to what was now happening\
107	To those who survived''
108	-->-- '''Music/SixtyFiveDaysOfStatic''', "Another Code Against the Gone"
109
110	->''"'ThouShaltNotKill... And ye Shalt build up the old wastes...' Sounds like a [[Literature/TheBible mighty good book o' rules.]] Too bad [[HumansAreBastards they]] didn't listen..."''
111	-->-- '''Grandpa Squirrel''', ''WesternAnimation/PeaceOnEarth''
112
113	->''Oh, Gamesverse. So many collapses. They're standing on the shoulders of so many giants that their heads are brushing the upper atmosphere. Or would be, had most of the giants not tripped one another up, stabbed each other in the kidney and generally fallen over in various different ways, in ages past. So what they're really standing on is a pile of giants' skeletons, some of which have still-spiky bits of ribcage and femur sticking out to gore whoever's currently on top in the ankle.''
114	-->-- '''Aleph''', author of ''Fanfic/{{Game Theory\|LyricalNanoha}}''
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116	->"''It was not, as some had predicted, {{the end of the world\|AsWeKnowIt}}. Instead, the apocalypse was [[FromBadToWorse simply the prologue]] to another bloody chapter in human history.''"
117	-->-- '''Creator/RonPerlman''', ''VideoGame/Fallout3'' intro monologue.
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119	->''"There's a certain liberty in hopelessness, isn't there? 'Cause things can't get 10'''1'''% fucked."''
120	-->--'''WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation''' on ''VideoGame/DarkSouls''
121
122	->'''Cathy:''' Does the future ''always'' have to be post-apocalyptic?
123	->'''Dewey:''' No, but it helps.
124	-->-- ''Webcomic/{{Unshelved}}'', [[http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20081123 2008 Nov. 23]] review of ''Literature/ShadesChildren'' by Garth Nix
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126	->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.
127	-->-- ''Literature/TheGunslinger'', book one of ''Literature/TheDarkTower''
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129	->''I travelled across the world — from the ruins of New York to the fusion mills of China, right across the radiation pits of Europe; and everywhere I went I saw people just like you, living as slaves.''
130	-->-- '''Martha Jones''', ''Series/DoctorWho'', "Last of the Time Lords"
131
132	->''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-''
133	-->--'''Emergency Radio Broadcast,''' ''Film/InTheMouthOfMadness'' - Ending via KilledMidSentence.
134
135	->''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!'''''
136	-->-- '''Taylor''', ''Film/PlanetOfTheApes1968'' - Realizing it was EarthAllAlong.
137
138	->''"In the desert sun, every step that you take could be the final one\
139	In the burning heat hanging on the edge of destruction\
140	You can't stop the pain of your children crying out in your head\
141	They always said that the living would envy the dead"''
142	-->-- '''Music/TinaTurner''', "[[Film/MadMaxBeyondThunderdome One of the Living]]"
143
144	->''"There was a nuclear war. A few years from now, all this, this whole place, everything, it's gone. Just gone. There were survivors. Here, there. Nobody even knew who started it. It was the machines, Sarah."''
145	-->--'''Kyle Reese''', ''Film/TheTerminator''
146
147	->''"Three billion human lives ended on August 29th, 1997. The survivors of the nuclear fire called the war Judgment Day. They lived only to face a new nightmare: the war against the machines."''
148	-->--'''Sarah Connor''', ''Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay''
149
150	->''"There's nothing left to destroy in this world."''
151	-->--'''Prisoner [=KSC2=]-303''', ''Film/{{Versus}}''
152
153	->"This is Earth. Mankind's violent nature had resulted in many civil wars and five great world wars.\
154	\
155	During the last war, someone from somewhere launched a nuclear warhead into the South Pole. In a finishing blow to the existing problem of global warming, the water levels of the oceans rose, submerging most of the landmasses on the planet. The human population was decimated.\
156	\
157	There were some who believed in the future... And some who fled underground... Despite their efforts, mankind perished."
158	-->-- '''"From Man to Squid"''' comic, ''The Art of VideoGame/Splatoon1''
159
160	->''"This is the future. The world as we knew it is gone. Acid rain has left the land barren and the water toxic. Scarred by endless wars humanity struggles to survive in the ruins of the old world, frozen in an everlasting nuclear winter. This is the future... This is the year 1997."''
161	-->--'''Frederic''', ''Film/TurboKid''
162
163	->''"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!"''
164	-->-- '''Franchise/{{Superman}}''', ''ComicBook/TheImmortalSuperman''
165
166	->''"Listen up, cause I'm only telling you this once. I'm not bedtime story lady, so pay attention. It's 2033. The world is screwed now. You see, a while ago this humongous comet came crashing into the earth. Bam, total devastation. End of the world as we know it. No celebrities, no cable TV, no water. It hasn't rained in 11 years. Now 20 people gotta squeeze inside the same bathtub - so it ain't all bad."''
167	-->--'''Tank Girl''', ''Film/TankGirl''
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169	->''"In the third millennium, the world changed. Climate, nations, all were in upheaval. The Earth transformed into a poisonous, scorched desert, known as "The Cursed Earth". Millions of people crowded into a few Megacities, where roving bands of street savages created violence the justice system could not control. Law, as we know it, collapsed. From the decay rose a new order, a society ruled by a new, elite force. A force with the power to dispense both justice and punishment. They were the police, jury and executioner all in one. They were the Judges."''
170	-->--'''Narrator''', ''Film/JudgeDredd''
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172	->''"[[WorldWarIII That day]], humanity was executed. The righteous and the sinful were called to be rendered according to their deeds. And we hid from God's sight in the Metro, and we were saved from His wrath. And He apparently decided that flushing us out wasn't worth the trouble. [[HaveYouSeenMyGod Then He went about His business, or perhaps, died]]. While we stayed on this used up and discarded Earth and continued just going with it... Going nowhere."''
173	-->-- '''Artyom''', ''VideoGame/MetroLastLight''
174
175	->''"Long ago, two races ruled over Earth: HUMANS and MONSTERS. One day, '''[[RetGone they all disappeared without a trace]].'''"''
176	-->-- ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'', after [[HostileShowTakeover Flowey takes control over your save file]]
177
178	->'''Bernard:''' My children are the buried seeds of life. When that time comes, [[WorldWarIII the thing itself]] will open up the door, and my children will go out to [[AdamAndEvePlot inherit the Earth]].
179	->'''Freya:''' ''What Earth'', Bernard? What Earth will you leave them? [[LookOnMyWorksYeMightyAndDespair After all that Man has made, and still has to make!]] ''(crying)'' Is this the extent of your dream? To set nine ice-cold children free, in the ashes of the universe?
180	-->-- ''Film/TheseAreTheDamned''
181
182	->''"So how did science fiction move from "[[{{Dystopia}} Things are gonna get bad!]]" to "Things are straight up gonna end!"? The answer's simple: The UsefulNotes/ColdWar. In 1955, the Soviet Union tested their first hydrogen bomb, and it became clear to the world that, for the first time in human history, we really did have the power to wipe everything out."''
183	-->-- ''[[WebAnimation/ExtraCredits Extra Sci-Fi]]'', "[[https://youtu.be/2hieycSRUeM Earth Abides - Dystopias and Apocalypses]]"
184
185	->''"The end of the world was only the beginning."''
186	-->--'''{{Tagline}}''' for ''Manga/{{Akira}}''
187
188	->''"It's all right, I've planned ahead. We're just three miles from a primary target. A millisecond of brilliant light and we're vaporized. [[MercyKill Much more fortunate than the millions who'll wander sightless through the smoldering aftermath]]. [[FateWorseThanDeath We'll be spared the horror of survival]]."''
189	-->-- '''Dr. Stephen Falken''', ''Film/WarGames''
190
191	->''For the end of the world was long ago,\
192	And all we dwell to-day\
193	As children of some second birth,\
194	Like a strange people left on earth\
195	After a judgment day.\
196	\
197	For the end of the world was long ago,\
198	When the ends of the world waxed free,\
199	When Rome was sunk in a waste of slaves,\
200	And the sun drowned in the sea.\
201	\
202	When Caesar's sun fell out of the sky\
203	And whoso hearkened right\
204	Could only hear the plunging\
205	Of the nations in the night.\
206	\
207	When the ends of the earth came marching in\
208	To torch and cresset gleam.\
209	And the roads of the world that lead to Rome\
210	Were filled with faces that moved like foam,\
211	Like faces in a dream.''
212	-->--"Literature/TheBalladOfTheWhiteHorse"
213
214	->''"This is one of the cities built by colonizing humanoids ages ago... History tell us they finally left this world because of terrific climatic changes!"''
215	-->-- '''Brainiac 5''', "ComicBook/TheUnknownLegionnaire"
216
217	->"''Death clears space for new life; it is the non-negotiable price of admission to the great banquet of existence.''"
218	-->--''[[https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/the-limits-to-growth-humanity Why Understanding Limits Is the Key to Humanity's Future]]'' by '''Richard Heinberg'''
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