Scott Westerfeld Quotes

The probability of apocalypse soon cannot be realistically estimated, but it is surely too high for any sane person to contemplate with equanimity.

I'm fascinated with worlds where there's a small population left, whether it's a movie or these TV shows that fascinate me - 'Falling Skies' or 'The Walking Dead' - they are about survival and triumphing over difficult times. I just have a thing for 'em.

There's a lot of speculation on what the zombie apocalypse thing means. I have a feeling that it's kind of an expression of our subconscious fears. I think we know that something big and impossible - some enormous crash, equalizing crash, whatever - may be coming around the corner.

The apocalypse is not around the corner.

I like to think that I could survive should the apocalypse or zombies show up.

Could this be the Apocalypse ?

I can see we're in for a fabulous evening's apocalypse.

What we hoped was that we could stop the coming end of the world.

You tell me over and over and over again, my friend, you don't believe we're on the eve of destruction.

We are within measurable, or imaginable, distance of a real Armageddon. Happily there seems to be no reason why we should be anything more than spectators.

There's just no real job security when you're shooting a show about an apocalypse, and anybody could die at any time.

Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice.

Zombies let us explore notions of the apocalypse - no water, food, medical care, the government imploding - while letting us sleep at night.

It is truly bracing and instructive to contemplate the End Times - at least at safe remove, in the pages of fiction - especially as the world beyond our hearths churns and convulses unknowably, yet perhaps just short of ultimate disaster.

The end of the world is on people's minds. We have the power to destroy or save ourselves, but the question is what do you do with that responsibility.

Sometimes I still worry that the next day will be the last day of the Earth.

Pray that we can come out alive.

I don’t do apocalypse!

In the apocalypse, I think those average, mediocre folks are the ones who are going to live.

No one's up in arms about these PG-13 movies where it's literally about the end of the world.

I have a vivid, apocalyptic imagination.

Running my fund in 2008 felt a little like being Noah. Noah builds his ark, and he puts his family on the ark, and off they go. So he and his family are safe, and everybody else is dying.

Apocalypse could not be repealed by the democratic process.

Your apocalypse was fab.

The world is coming to an end in 1950.