Top 80 If The World Ends Quotes
#1. If the world ends, I'll just head on down to Kentucky because they're always 20 years behind.
Mark Twain
#2. If the world ends tomorrow, understand that I regret saying no.
Alex Adams
#4. In this business, you can be at the top of the world and at the bottom of the barrel, and you're grape juice. I've been at both ends. It can make you become what you really are.
Kim Basinger
#5. What we hoped was that we could stop the coming end of the world.
Ken Kesey
#6. The Good Spirit never cared for the colleges, and though all men and boys were now drilled in Greek, Latin, and Mathematics, it had quite left these shells high on the beach, and was creating and feeding other matters [science] at other ends of the world.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#7. The real ceremony begins where the formal one ends, when we take up a new way, our minds and hearts filled with the vision of earth that holds us within it, in compassionate relationship to and with our world.
Linda Hogan
#8. I will tell you how this ends, Jarl Grimnar. It ends with you on your knees, as the first High King of Fenris to bare his throat to a foe's blade. Refuse, and suffer the excommunication of your Chapter and the Exterminatus of your miserable home world
Aaron Dembski-Bowden
#9. The hawk is on my fist. Thirty ounces of death in a feathered jacket; a being whose world is drawn in plots and vectors that pull her towards lives' ends.
Helen Macdonald
#10. But even as I yearn for it, I fear it. Because the more I see of this cruel world, the less I believe it ends in some pleasant fiction.
Pierce Brown
#11. The end of the world begins the moment you die.
Billy Graham
#12. Every action in this world, every word, every thought, has an effect. But the actor is also acted upon by his action. The condition on which you are allowed to make a change in the world is that the world changes you as well.
Yael Shahar
#13. Everybody does the same mistake: refusing the means, but wanting the ends. You want peace and harmony in the world, but refuse to have them in yourself.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
#14. At the end of the day, nobody can tell you how to tackle failure or how to handle change. The world is very good at encouraging you to go along with the status quo and at basking in your successes.
Viola Davis
#15. We'll meet here, he'd said. If the world ever ends. How had something so throwaway become the thing they returned to when everything else was breaking and falling apart?
Anne Corlett
#16. The Church must be seen as the company of pilgrims on the way to the end of the world and the ends of the earth.
Lesslie Newbigin
#18. This world is larger than your heart
still larger than your pain
but know this:
everything ends
so let what remains of us all
be love.
Julio Alexi Genao
#19. I tell you this: Compassion never ends, love never stops, patience never runs out in God's World. Only in the world of man is goodness limited. In My World, goodness is endless.
Neale Donald Walsch
#20. This is the way the world ends.
This is the way the world ends.
This is the way the world ends.
Not with a band but a whimper.
T. S. Eliot
#21. The world has an ending and a beginning. It begins with you and it ends with you. The end of the world occurs when you make a major transition in attention.
Frederick Lenz
#22. Then again," he continues, turning to me as we approach the busted old birdbath- the point where Neverland ends and the rest of the world begins- "never say never.
Kate Ellison
#23. Changing anything in the past, if you believe it's possible, could alter the entire future of the world, including my own birth, so I'd change nothing. Not a thing. As for the future ... I think I'd like to see how it all ends, which is probably why I write about the future apocalypse so frequently.
Jeremy Robinson
#25. Time weighs down on you like an old, ambiguous dream. You keep on moving, trying to sleep through it. But even if you go to the ends of the earth, you won't be able to escape it. Still, you have to go there- to the edge of the world. There's something you can't do unless you get there.
Haruki Murakami
#26. The world won't end with a bang.
The world won't end with a whimper.
In fact, the world won't end at all.
But it will change and if we refuse to change with it ...
It will be us that ends.
Madeline Sheehan
#27. I find it magnificent how beau-tiful, loose ends find each other in the world if one only waits with de-cent patience, resilience, and quite blind strength.
J.D. Salinger
#28. If you ask me, any religion that takes the end of the world as one of its central tenets is more or less bogus. In my view, the only thing that ever 'ends' is the individual.
Haruki Murakami
#29. The world has long observed that small acts of immorality, if repeated, will destroy character. It is equally manifest, though never said, that uttering nonsense and half-truth without cease ends by destroying Intellect
Jacques Barzun
#30. The world, with all its beauty and adventure, its richness and variety, is darkened by cruelty. Death, if it ends the loveliness, the adventure, ends also that. Death balances the picture.
Winifred Holtby
#31. [T]he nature of science is not that of a steady, linear progression toward the Truth, but rather a tortuous road, often characterized by dead ends and U-turns, and yet ultimately inching toward a better, if tentative, understanding of the natural world.
Massimo Pigliucci
#32. Solovey will take me to the ends of the earth if I ask it. I am going into the world, Alyosha. I will be no one's bride, neither of man nor of God. I am going to Kiev and Sarai and Tsargrad, and I will look upon the sun on the sea.
Katherine Arden
#33. An Atlas, whose back is bowed and whose hands are busy holding up the world, has no arms to lift to deal with his own defense. Increase his burdens and you will crush him ... This is our present posture ... This suggestions I make ... would ... conserve American lives for American ends.
Murray Rothbard
#34. You know the funny thing about the end of the world, my old friend? We always talk about it as if it hasn't happened already. Because of course the world has ended many times. And when it ends for some people, other people report it in the papers or on TV as a new beginning.
Bee Ridgway
#35. So what if I can't spell Armaggedon? ... it's not the end of the world.
Stewart Francis
#36. One of the nice things about the world of filmmaking is that you make friends in the business. Sometimes directors feel a script needs something, but they're not sure what it is, so they show it to a friend; if the friend is a writer, he ends up kicking around with that script for a while.
Tom Stoppard
#37. If we are wayfarers who want to return home, then we must see the world as a means of transportation (terestibus vel marinis vehiculis) and always remember to distinguish the means and ends.
Augustine Of Hippo
#38. Each time we exhale, the world ends; when we inhale, there can be, if we allow it, rebirth and spiritual renewal. It all transpires inside of us. In our consciousness, in our hearts. All the time.
Tom Robbins
#39. If the world goes crazy for a lovely fossil, that's fine with me. But if that fossil releases some kind of mysterious brain ray that makes people say crazy things and write lazy articles, a serious swarm of flies ends up in my ointment.
Carl Zimmer
#40. I know you will remember this - that nothing good ever ends. If it did, there would be no people in the world - no life at all, anywhere. And the world is full of people and full of wonderful life.
William, Saroyan
#41. In the process Paul laid out a comprehensive theory of poverty, of a world designed by the elites of all nations to serve their own ends, the pieces of the design enshrined in ideologies, which erased the histories of how things came to be as they were.
Tracy Kidder
#42. Goodness, a girl steps out of the office for a couple days and the whole world ends!
A.J. Lauer
#43. But still, it looked completely natural, as if we had been kissing at the ends of sentences for ages, while the rest of the world was still hung up on punctuation.
Jodi Picoult
#44. Perhaps we are in this world to search for love, find it and lose it, again and again. With each love, we are born anew, and with each love that ends we collect a new wound. I am covered with proud scars.
Isabel Allende
#45. And that, my friend, is how the world ends. On the edge of a precipice, with one foot over the edge, it stops, turns and goes back, leaving an empty earth of birds and insects, wind, rain and rusting weapons.
Jack Finney
#46. Here ends another day, during which I have had eyes, ears, hands and the great world around me. Tomorrow begins another day. Why am I allowed two?
G.K. Chesterton
#47. 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.
Jean Baudrillard
#48. People will seek the ends of the galaxy to avoid that which they need most.
Criss Jami
#49. The would-be maturing believer is not challenged to any adult faith or service to the world, much less mystical union. Everyone ends up in a muddled middle, where "the best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity," as William Butler Yeats put it.
Richard Rohr
#50. What is the point of living this beautiful life if you do not have a mission that ends up making the world a better place to live.
Manoj Arora
#51. This is the way the world really ends: not with whimper but a desperate chuckle.
Martin Firrell
#52. We must have a new reformation. There must come a violent break with that irresponsible, amusement-mad, paganized pseudo-religion which passes today for the faith of Christ and which is being spread all over the world by unspiritual men employing unscriptural methods to achieve their ends.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#54. Caring is going to the ends of the world for a stranger.
Bernard Levine
#55. So what I'm trying to say is you should text me back. Because there's a precedent. Because there's an urgency. Because there's a bedtime. Because when the world ends I might not have my phone charged and If you don't respond soon, I won't know if you'd wanna leave your shadow next to mine.
Marina Keegan
#57. Yes, this world is truly terrible, which is why the pure and the holy come bravely forward: They have decided to eradicate the sins of the world. They want to standardize people, keep them in order, keep them in place under their own rear ends. They are the reason I have had to die a hundred times.
Zhang Xianliang
#58. Just because someone you loved dies, doesn't mean that your world ends as well.
Kimberly Lauren
#59. My world on the road always ends up feeling really small which is ironic because that's when I'm seeing the most places and meeting the most people!
Tyler Hilton
#60. I set up and staged hundreds of ends-of-the-world and watched, enthralled, as they played themselves out.
Annie Dillard
#61. Sometimes go around with guys who are scuffling
for awhile. But usually they end up marrying some cat with a factory. This is the way world ends, not with a whim but a banker.
Marian McPartland
#62. A piety that sees death as the moment of "going home at last," the time when we are "called to God's eternal peace," has no quarrel with power-mongers who want to carve up the world to suit their own ends.
N. T. Wright
#63. To me it begins and ends with these psychedelic substances. The synergy of the psilocybin in the hominid diet brought us out of the animal mind and into the world of articulated speech and imagination.
Terence McKenna
#64. They say the captain goes down with the ship, so when the world ends, will God go down with it?
Fall Out Boy
#65. Charonte are guarding a Dimme? Is the world coming to an end and I missed the memo? (Stryker)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#66. The world ended once. It will end again. The world ends, then the world comes back. The world always comes back.
Rick Yancey
#67. Sometimes a journey arises out of hope and instinct, the heady conviction, as your finger travels along the map: Yes, here and here ... and here. These are the nerve-ends of the world ...
Colin Thubron
#68. Having children changes everything; it changes your entire perspective about life since from the moment they arrive your new world begins and ends with them, your concern for their welfare is paramount over everything else and your life is scheduled around their needs.
Tess Daly
#69. Feminism starts out being very simple, and it ends up being a world view that questions hierarchy altogether.
Gloria Steinem
#70. If the human being is a proud and honorable creature, he shouldn't forget to act that way, even if he falls, even if the whole world is against him, even if he ends as a slave.
Shams Tabrizi
#71. At the end of the day, women are expected to hold up the world, not annihilate it.
Kim Gordon
#72. Where the world ends
The mind is made unchanging, for it finds
Miracle, ecstasy, the impossible hope,
The flagstone under all, the fire of fires,
The roots of the world.
William Butler Yeats
#73. Not much in the world ends up being the same as it started out,
unless of course it had a very short life cycle.
Lorii Myers
#74. Connect with all the passions people have -for themselves, their families, their communities and wider world - and they will follow you to the ends of the earth, buy your products and services with pride, and may even be willing to work for you for next to nothing.
Patrick Dixon
#75. I started studying what the nature of a monument is and what a monument should be. And for the World War III memorial I designed a futile, almost terrifying passage that ends nowhere.
Maya Lin
#76. Christianity, unlike any other religion in the world, begins with catastrophe and defeat. Sunshine religions and psychological inspirations collapse in calamity and wither in adversity. But the Life of the Founder of Christianity, having begun with the Cross, ends with the empty tomb and victory.
Fulton J. Sheen
#77. When you're young everything feels like the end of the world, but its not; its just the beginning.
Zac Efron
#78. This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.
T. S. Eliot
#79. Because here, Bullet,
here is where the world ends, every time.
Brian Turner
#80. The world had already changed before September 11. The world has been going through a process of change over the last 20 or 30 years. A civilization ends, another one begins.
Jose Saramago
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