Line #11 Quotes/JustBeforeTheEnd


1	->''The ice age is coming, the sun is zooming in\
2	Engines stop running and the wheat is growing thin\
3	[[ANuclearError A nuclear error]], but I have no fear\
4	London is drowning--and I live by the river.''
5	-->-- '''Music/TheClash''', ''London Calling''
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7	->''"It's not the end of the world...but you can see it from here."''
8	-->-- '''[[spoiler:Eliza]]''', ''VideoGame/DeusExHumanRevolution''
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10	->''"Even at supersonic speeds the missiles will take an appreciable time to reach their destination. So what do you say, boys, to a spot of breakfast while we're waiting for our Last Judgment!"''
11	-->-- '''Narrator''', ''Ape and Essence''
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13	->'''''Dawn of the Final Day'''''\
14	''- 24 Hours Remain -''
15	-->-- ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask''
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17	->''"This is humanity's last stand. The beginning of the end."''
18	-->-- '''Albert Wesker''', ''Film/ResidentEvilRetribution''
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20	->Many Kindred whisper of the Jyhad, the [[ForeverWar eternal war]] [[LongGame or game]] said to consume the most ancient vampires. This struggle has been waged since the dawn of time, but many vampires fear that, as one millennium passes to the next and the curse of undeath grows weaker, an apocalyptic endgame is at hand. Signs and portents, many recorded in the prophetic ''Book of Nod,'' trouble vampires of all clans and lineages, even those who profess not to believe. Whispers in Sabbat covens and Camarilla salons alike speak of turmoil in the East, of armies of Clanless rabble, of [[{{Dhampyr}} vampires whose blood is so thin that they cannot Embrace]], of meetings with [[HumanoidAbomination mysterious elders whose vast power betrays no discernible lineage]], of [[BadMoonRising black crescent moons and full moons red as blood]]. All, say the believers, are omens that the Final Nights are approaching, and that the end of all things is nigh.
21	-->--''TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade''
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23	->Despair! The age of mortals is ending. Time drains away and [[TheStarsAreGoingOut the stars fade from the sky]]. The bitter spawn of night crawls from the darkness to possess the world. Fools take refuge in faith or madness, for no other hiding place remains. The Realm of Chaos is begun.
24	-->--''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}: Chaos Army Book (4th Edition)''
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26	->''Pushing through the market square\
27	So many mothers sighing\
28	News had just come over\
29	We had five years left to cry in\
30	News guy wept and told us\
31	Earth was really dying\
32	Cried so much his face was wet\
33	Then I knew he was not lying''
34	-->-- '''Music/DavidBowie''', "[[Music/TheRiseAndFallOfZiggyStardustAndTheSpidersFromMars Five Years]]"
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36	->What interests me the most about ''Film/MadMax1'', though, is that it doesn’t quite fit into the pigeonhole which it did so much to create. Between them, this movie and its [[Film/MadMax2TheRoadWarrior first sequel]] laid the ground rules for the 80’s post-apocalypse film, yet in ''Mad Max'' at least, the apocalypse has yet to arrive. This first time around, Creator/GeorgeMiller presents us not with the pathetic remnant of humanity squabbling over the corpse of Western civilization, but with a snapshot of that civilization just a few years prior to its death throes. For all the horrendous dysfunctionality of such institutions as the police force and the court system, those institutions do still exist, and are still trying gamely to perform their functions. People still have regular, paying jobs from which they periodically take vacations, which they still do by loading up the camper van or RV trailer and heading off to the country to stay for a week or two with their aunties. Mothers still go shopping at the market, children still cajole them into buying ice cream cones, mechanics still try to talk customers into paying for unnecessary repairs, and even the glory-roaders are as yet looked at as just one more frightening and incomprehensible youth subculture, not so much different from the greasers, hippies, bikers, and punk rockers who preceded them. As such, ''Mad Max'' is not really post-apocalyptic but pre-apocalyptic; there has been no discrete calamity — no nuclear war, no pandemic plague, no world-wrecking environmental catastrophe — but rather a world slowly and insidiously laid low by the Second Law of Thermodynamics. There’s nothing wrong with civilization but an extremely advanced case of entropy, but despite that, the dominant impression this movie leaves is that it will be an enormous mercy when the total collapse which is now faintly visible on the horizon finally gets here. The world of ''Mad Max'' is one which is longing to be put out of its misery.
37	-->--'''Scott "El Santo" Ashlin, [[http://1000misspenthours.com/reviews/reviewsh-m/madmax.htm 1000 Misspent Hours]]
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39	->'''Ember:''' Have you not wondered how it is that [[ProudWarriorRace the Lorians]] could have crossed the Northern Barrier into Fillory?
40	->'''Eliot:''' Well, yeah. A little.
41	->'''Ember:''' The old spells have weakened. [[SignsOfTheEndTimes This invasion was merely a portent foretold long ago]]. The war we are losing is with time.
42	->'''Eliot:''' Oh. OK.
43	->'''Ember:''' The end is almost here, Eliot.
44	->'''Eliot:''' The end of what?
45	->'''Ember:''' Of everything. Of this land. This world. [[WhamLine Fillory is dying]].
46	-->--''[[Literature/TheMagicians The Magician's Land]]''
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48	->In 1983, as the first International Space Station fell burning to earth with the loss of all on board, a glorious attempt at new science gone tragically wrong as the nations of the earth scrambled to prove themselves better than their neighbours, tens of thousands died in the Maldives and Bangladesh in the worst summer floods of their history. As the seas heated around the polar ice caps, it was apparent even to the most conservative observers that the [[TechnologyUplift great technological surge]], as [[BigBad Vincent]]'s tampering was increasingly known, [[GaiasLament was causing more harm to humanity than good]]. A journalist standing in a field in Wisconsin where five dancing tornadoes spun beneath a lightning-edged sky declared to camera, “Mankind has learned to carve with the tools of nature, but can't yet see the sculpture it will create,” and as the first water wars erupted in the Middle East and central Asia, I began finally to see how [[OminousMessageFromTheFuture Christa's prophecy]], delivered hundreds of years ago in a hospital room in Berlin, could come true.
49	->The world was ending, as it always must. But the end of the world is getting faster.
50	-->--''Literature/TheFirstFifteenLivesOfHarryAugust''
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