Unavoidable Doom Quotes

You can hide from the devil, but he'll always find you.

I became the messenger who had to be killed.

The danger of collective catastrophe … is so great as to be in part a certainty.

Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising.

Of the big horror movies of the '70s, you have 'The Omen,' 'The Sentinel,' 'Rosemary's Baby,' 'The Stepford Wives,' 'Burnt Offerings' - these are all romantic fatalist movies where there's a sort of glimmer of hope... but darkness wins.

I will say that Rick will probably die before the end of the book. I'll go ahead and put that in print. Nobody's safe. I've almost killed him three times already.

The compulsion of fate is bitter.

Have any of our friends got off the Island with their families, or what must they submit to? Despotism or destruction, I fear, is their fate.

There is a moment when nothing can be wiped out and left behind any more, when there is only reality and reality is horrifying.

There is one who remembers the way to your door: Life you may evade, but Death you shall not.

There's a lot of speculation on what the zombie apocalypse thing means. I have a feeling that it's kind of an expression of our subconscious fears. I think we know that something big and impossible - some enormous crash, equalizing crash, whatever - may be coming around the corner.

I think there's a collective consciousness around the world that there are things beyond our control that have the power to annihilate us, as a species, and it's all rather frightening.

Death comes black and hard, rushing down on me from the future, with no possible chance of escape.

Horror fiction shows us that the control we believe we have is purely illusory, and that every moment we teeter on chaos and oblivion.

We are living on the brink of the apocalypse, but the world is asleep.

To say that everything without exception is going straight to hell is not an alternative vision but only an inversion of the mainstream's 'everything's fine.'