Junot Diaz Quotes

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 times are here. And that is a lot, so that is why we have to do our best to stop it.

Even as a teenager, I felt that for whatever reason that we were living very close to the end of human history. And now at my age I believe that with almost an increasing certainty.

I had grown up preparing for the Days of Abomination, watching for the sun to darken, for the moon to drip as if with blood.

I was raised thinking that the world would end in 1975 - that Armageddon would come when I was 18 years old.

Eschatological fears are an ancient human concern. The Romans expected the world to end in 634 B.C. owing to a prophecy involving twelve eagles, while the early Christians anticipated the Final Judgment in their own lifetimes. Pope Sylvester II thought A.D. 1000 would be the last year, a view updated for the modern age by the Millennium bug.

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

The Antichrist will be the infernal prince again for the third and last time... so many evils shall be committed by the means of Satan, the infernal Prince, that almost the entire world shall be found undone and desolate. Before these events happen, many rare birds will cry in the air, 'Now! Now!' and sometime later will vanish.

Ronald Reagan used to alarm other constituencies by speaking freely about the End Times foreshadowed in the Bible.

If this is the end of the world, give me a fork and a knife.

Hence the end of the world should be awaited with all longing by all believers.

A poll earlier this year showed that 42 per cent of Americans believe we're in the End Times.

There's a great deal to say in the Bible about the signs we're to watch for, and when these signs all converge at one place we can be sure that we're close to the end of the age.

The end of times has always been a fascination. But post 9/11, pretty much everybody will admit to having it on their minds more frequently than when they were a kid.

Christians will not be here to experience the great tribulation under the Antichrist.

If we have to sum up the Book of Revelation in one phrase, it would be, 'Jesus wins.'

With the coming of the next millennium, some religious/apocalyptic groups or individuals may turn to violence as they seek to achieve dramatic effects to fulfill their prophecies.

God knows when the end of time will come, not some fanatic... The world will end someday, but the end of the world and the end of time are two different things.

Could this be the Apocalypse ?

We will have to wait a little longer to see if Armageddon has arrived.

The end approaches, but the apocalypse is long lived.

Left Behind takes what to some people may be unbelievable predictions from the Bible and shows how they might play out. It makes the events of biblical prophecy understandable and thus believable.

When you think about it, the end of the world is a little bit like death: We all know it's going to come eventually, and as we get older, we feel we see the signs more and more distinctly.

We are very near the final climactic events that end with the Second Coming of Christ.

I'm really into sci-fi. I always have been. In addition to that, I've always had a tremendous fascination with the lure of the Apocalypse or Judgment Day or the Mayan calendar, etc., etc.