Jorge Luis Borges Quotes

Death! great proprietor of all! 'tis thine To tread out empire, and to quench the stars.

Everything is created to be annihilated.

The stars were only sparks of the fire which devoured us. Should that fire die out one day, there would be nothing left in the sky but dead stars, dead eyes.

When you're dead, you're done.

Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.

When I disappear, I will disappear; there'll be nothing left.

Everything dies, from the smallest blade of grass to the biggest galaxy.

Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind.

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

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.

Woe, destruction, ruin, and decay; the worst is death and death will have his day.

And all was black and still, and black and cold, and black and dead, and black.

In the end, living is defined by dying. Book-ended by oblivion, we are caught in the vice of terror, squeezed to bursting by the approaching end. Fear is ever-present, waiting to be called to the surface. Change brought fear, and fear brought destruction.

One day we'll all be dead, and none of this will matter" -The Brightest Star in the Sky.

Do not seek death, seek destruction.

There will come a time, when all of us are dead. All of us. There will come a time when there are no human beings remaining to remember that anyone ever existed or that our species ever did anything.

ahhh the beauty of annihilation. There's nothing like it.

In her mind's eye she saw it, saw it all at last: the rolling armies and the flames of battle; the graves and pits and dying cries of a hundred million souls; the spreading darkness, like a black wing stretching over the earth; the last, bitter hours of cruelty and sorrow, and the terrible, final flights; death's great dominion over all, and, at the last, empty cities, becalmed by the silence of a hundred years. Already these things were coming to pass.

The course of Nature seems a course of Death, And nothingness the whole substantial thing.

Imperishable moments and immortal deeds, death itself and love stronger than death, will be as though they had never been. The energies of our system will decay, the glory of the sun will be dimmed and the earth tideless and inert, will no longer tolerate the race which has for the moment disturbed its solitude. Man will go down into the pit and all his thoughts will perish. The uneasy consciousness, which in this obscure corner has for a brief space broken the contented silence of the universe, will be at rest.

Overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out.

Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds. (quoting the Bhagavad-Gita after witnessing the first Nuclear explosion.)

After death there is nothing.

Maybe I'll go where I can see stars, he said to himself as the car gained velocity and altitude; it headed away from San Francisco, toward the uninhabited desolation to the north. To the place where no living thing would go. Not unless it felt that the end had come.

He was no more, freed from being, entering into nowhere without even knowing it. Just as he'd feared from the start.