Tom Waits Quotes

It’s the end. It’s the end of the civilization. We’re going down. No, it’s sure not too attractive. Lenticels. I just hope my kids don’t live to see the last days. The things burning and people living in cellars. Violet. The only thing worse than the thought it may all come tumbling down is the thought that we may go on like this forever.

People love destroying mankind, for some strange reason. You make a movie about mankind's destruction, you're going to fill seats. People just love the idea. For a couple thousand years, we've been dreaming up how we're all going to disappear and fade away from this planet.

Once people realized that, 'Hey, we're going to be left on Earth here, and everything is going to hell quickly,' sci-fi soon became about our own self-destruction.

That day of wrath, that dreadful day. When heaven and earth shall pass away.

Here's the funny thing about the world coming to an end. Once it gets going, it doesn't seem to stop.

Over the field rang his clear voice calling: ‘Death! Ride, ride to ruin and the world’s ending!

I have heard the languages of apocalypse, and now I shall embrace the silence.

All was shattered, and all but memory lost, and one memory above all others, of him who brought the Shadow and the Breaking of the World. And him they named Dragon.

This generation may be the one that will face Armageddon.

I have a vivid, apocalyptic imagination.

Could this be the Apocalypse ?

Before the boiling of blood and the searing of skin comes the secret catastrophe: Before Life on Earth becomes finally merely impossible, it will for a long time before have become completely unbearable.

End times aren't supposed to be very pretty.

A perfect world or a world destroyed, one or the other- someday will come the end of hell.

There will come a time of fire and night, when enemies rise and empires fall, when the stars themselves begin to die.

We hope that as a species we're capable of dealing with environmental catastrophe before it actually does collectively kill most of us.

The world won't end with a bang or a whimper. It'll end with the death screams of a thousand demons and a defiant, carefree, savage, wolfen howl.

I am anti-life, the Beast of Judgment. I am the dark at the end of everything. The end of universes, gods, worlds…of everything. And what will you be then, Dreamlord?" "I am hope.

My god will wipe this country (America) from the face of the earth.

I hear the ruin of all space, shattered glass and toppled masonry, and time one livid final flame.

Honestly, if you're given the choice between Armageddon or tea, you don't say "what kind of tea?"

Thank God for imminent doomsday.

This is the way the world ends; not with a bang or a whimper, but with zombies breaking down the back door.