Conor Oberst Quotes

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.

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

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.

If you’re listening to this, congratulations! You survived Doomsday. I’d like to apologize straightaway for any inconvenience the end of the world may have caused you. The earthquakes, rebellions, riots,tornadoes, floods, tsunamis, and of course the giant snake who swallowed the sun—I’m afraid most of that was our fault. Carter and I decided we should at least explain how it happened.

He stepped to the window and pointed to the skyscrapers of the city. He said that we had to extinguish the lights of the world, and when we would see the lights of New York go out, we would know that our job was done.

My mother was always in those films where it's the end of the world and a meteor's about to hit London; there's only six people left, and one of them's in purple underwear. That was always my mother, running from this meteor in purple underwear and spraining her ankle.

In the apocalypse, I think those average, mediocre folks are the ones who are going to live.

No one's up in arms about these PG-13 movies where it's literally about the end of the world.

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

Into the eternal darkness, into fire and into ice.

I can see we're in for a fabulous evening's apocalypse.

The last time I saw her was red. The sky was like soup, boiling and stirring. In some places, it was burned. There were black crumbs, and pepper, streaked across the redness.

There will come a time of fire and night, when enemies rise and empires fall, when the stars themselves begin to die.

If I was not assured by the best authority on earth that the world is to be destroyed by fire, I should conclude that the day of destruction is at hand, but brought on by means of an agent very opposite to that of heat.

The end comes when the infinites arrive.

Catastrophe, riots, factories blowing up, armies in flight, flood - the ear can detect a whole apocalypse in the starry night of the human body.

I hear the ruin of all space, shattered glass and toppled masonry, and time one livid final flame.

Over the field rang his clear voice calling: ‘Death! Ride, ride to ruin and the world’s ending!

Honestly, if you're given the choice between Armageddon or tea, you don't say "what kind of tea?"

I have heard the languages of apocalypse, and now I shall embrace the silence.

This is the way the world ends; not with a bang or a whimper, but with zombies breaking down the back door.

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.

Time for the world to end.

Man creates what he calls history as a screen to conceal the workings of the apocalypse from himself.