Jonathan Franzen Quotes

This is the way the world really ends: not with whimper but a desperate chuckle.

In a world without future, each moment is the end of the world.

The book I'm looking for,' says the blurred figure, who holds out a volume similar to yours, 'is the one that gives the sense of the world after the end of the world, the sense that the world is the end of everything that there is in the world, that the only thing there is in the world is the end of the world.

Ever since the world ended, I don't go out as much

I am anti-life, the Beast of Judgment. I am the dark at the end of everything. The end of universes, gods, worlds…of everything. And what will you be then, Dreamlord?" "I am hope.

If you believe that the world is going to come to an end - and perhaps any day now - does it not drain one's motivation to improve life on earth while we're here?

This isn't the first time the world has come to an end, and it won't be the last either.

They say we have we created the man to end all wars; I say we have created a man to end all worlds.

We are always living in the final days. What have you got? A hundred years or much, much less until the end of your world.

I was born into a world that was already dying; I belong to it.

The day the world ends, no one will be there, just as no one was there when it began. This is a scandal. Such a scandal for the human race that it is indeed capable collectively, out of spite, of hastening the end of the world by all means just so it can enjoy the show.

All the times I have suddenly realized that my parents are dead, even now, it still surprises me, to exist in the world while that which made me has ceased to exist

I convinced myself that sadness and compromise were the ways of the world.

The end of the world begins the moment you die.

Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I've tasted of desire, I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twice I think I know enough of hate To say that for destruction ice Is also great And would suffice.

Because of you, the world makes sense to me in a way it didn't before. I have a place now, with you.

Anticipating the end of the world is humanity's oldest passtime

It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That's how the world is going to end.

Life is the longest death in California.

Not to be born surpasses thought and speech. The second best is to have seen the light and then go back quickly whence we came

Do you think we're going to hit a tipping point and the world's going to end?

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

There's a difference between the world ending tomorrow and just drinking and drugging yourself to death.