Hayao Miyazaki Quotes

Civilization is coming to an end, you understand.

I think that obviously, there is a perverse attraction to a fundamentally changed world or the end of the world. There is a death wish, a perverse death wish. Not just for ourselves, not just for the movie 'Death Wish,' but for the end of all human life.

Some day science may have the existence of mankind in its power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.

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

Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.

If one wants to talk about the end of the world, the apocalypse, you're talking about the world itself. It's not Southern California breaking into the sea. The story is global, and it requires that kind of approach.

If the world's gonna end, Trump's gonna have something to do with it.

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.

The end of the world has come often, and continues to come.

Time for the world to end.

I am like a child ready for the apocalypse, I am the apocalypse itself, that is to say, the ultimate and first event of the end, the unveiling and the verdict.

For the first time in the history of mankind, one generation literally has the power to destroy the past, the present and the future, the power to bring time to an end.

Many people believe that the current system must inevitably end in total annihilation. They reject, sometimes very emotionally, any attempts to analyze this notion.

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.

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've begun to look at the world through apocalypse eyes. Our society, which seems so sturdily built out of concrete and custom, is just a temporary resting place, a hotel our civilization checked into a couple hundred years ago and must one day check out of.

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.

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.

The apocalypse is not around the corner.

I believe that the end of things man-made cannot be very far away - must be near at hand.

Man now has the power to put an end to his own history.

We can’t blow up the world because of it.

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