Don DeLillo Quotes

The world was floods above and fire below

As my early drawings warned me, where humans go, lions and tidal waves follow.

One day, when we were coming back from school, we saw this big cloud of smoke coming up, and all these fire-trucks in the yard. The garage was burning down. I was 14, and we'd lost everything.

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

Nightmares of a capital city overwhelmed by tsunami, war or plague transfix us, but catastrophe is first felt locally, and there are many homes outside the city.

History: the category of human phenomena which tends to catastrophe.

Five and forty steps the sky will burn. Fire approaching the large new city. Instantly a great thin flame will leap, when someone will want to test the Normans.

A great stench will come from Lausanne, but they will not know its origin; they will put out all people from distant places, fire seen in the sky, a foreign nation defeated.

History is a race between education and catastrophe.

We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.

There will be a great loss of learning before the moon's full cycle is completed. Fire and floods will be fomented by ignorant rulers; much time will go by before it is rectified.

Once people realized that, 'Hey, we're going to be left on Earth here, and everything is going to hell quickly,' sci-fi soon became about our own self-destruction.

At forty-five degrees, the sky will burn. Fire to approach the great new city; in an instant, a great scattered flame will leap up, when one will want to get evidence from the Normans.

The species will continue, whatever apocalypse we manage to unleash. It just won't be much fun to live through.

When a fire starts in one it just races through. And that is in a way unconscionable.

The forest fires are the worst disaster in California since I was elected.

Everyday life is a disaster, and disaster can liberate us.

After there is great trouble among mankind, a greater one is prepared. The great mover of the universe will renew time, rain, blood, thirst, famine, steel weapons and disease. In the heavens, a fire seen

The world is on fire.

I don't think that disasters have to be spectacular. They can be a slow corrosion.

When she awoke, the world was on fire.

They always say to Californians that we don't have seasons. Of course, that is not true. We have fire, flood, mud and drought.

There are disasters that are entirely manmade, but none that are entirely natural.

All the fatt's in the fire.

The whole world's on fire.