John Hodgman Quotes

I don't think the end of the world is the end of the world.

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.

It would be wonderful if I could see the end of civilization during my lifetime.

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.

We want to be the band to dance to when the bomb drops.

By the time I'm 50, there is probably going to be a nuclear holocaust. I should just enjoy myself.

I do believe that I will see the apocalypse in my lifetime. And when it comes, I'm not repenting for anything I've done.

Any way you want to slice it, the thing about the apocalypse is, since the beginning of time, it's the projection of mankind's worst fear. The day that, as a race, our number is up.

Thank God for imminent doomsday.

Everyone, deep in their hearts, is waiting for the end of the world to come.

We may be the generation that sees Armageddon.

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

What we think of as our sensitivity is only the higher evolution of terror in a poor dumb beast. We suffer for nothing. Our own death wish is our only real tragedy.

Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.

It is true that I will confess that I have an incredible fascination for pop-culture stories about the Apocalypse and the end of the world.

I've been obsessed with doomsday for a long time - the idea that different cultures respond to it differently, and religions will change people's outlook on it.

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

The desire to die was my one and only concern; to it I have sacrificed everything, even death.

The apocalypse is not around the corner.

As a kid I'd lie awake at night and convince myself that a meteor was about to hit the Earth. It's my fatalistic streak, which I've inherited from my mum. I firmly believe something cataclysmic is going to happen in my lifetime and I have to be prepared to run for my life when the time comes.

I don’t know. We’ll all be dead.

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.

Could this be the Apocalypse ?

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