Not A Bang But A Whimper Quotes

#1. My Stephen King for his Ayn Rand. My Terry Goodkind for his T.S. Elliot. Not a bang but a whimper.

Shannon Celebi

#2. Turns out an apocalypse actually comes on pretty slowly. Not fire and brimstone, but rust and dandelions. Not a bang but a whimper.

James Patterson

#3. Unwinds didn't go out with a bang-they didn't even go out with a whimper. they went out with the silence of a candle flame pinched between two fingers.

Neal Shusterman

#4. This was the way the world ended. Not with a bang, nor even a whimper, but with a sort of creeping paralysis of indifference.

Nigel Balchin

#5. This is how the great post-partisan, post-racial, New Politics presidency ends-not with a bang, not with a whimper, but with a desperate election-eve plea for ethnic retribution.

Charles Krauthammer

#6. 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

#7. If you start with a bang, you won't end with a whimper.

T. S. Eliot

#8. Drama is very important in life: You have to come on with a bang. You never want to go out with a whimper. Everything can have drama if it's done right. Even a pancake.

Julia Child

#9. It's better to go out with a bang and a press release than with a whimper and a secret.

Mira Grant

#10. I think we have to realize that Canada is not immortal. But if it is going to go, let it go with a bang rather than a whimper.

Pierre Trudeau

#11. The poems are all wrong.
It's a bang, a really big bang. Not a whimper.
And sometimes gold can stay.

Kami Garcia

#12. Tyranny is increasingly unsustainable in this post-cold-war era. It is doomed to failure. But it must be prodded to exit the stage with a whimper - not the bang that extremists long for.

Eskinder Nega

#13. This was how the world ended. Not with a bang, but with a whimper.

Andrea Speed

#14. Not with a bang, but with a whimper.
In with gunfire and out with smoke.

Victoria Schwab

#15. The force of life fills out our tissues with its pulsing vibrancy and puffs them up with the pride of being alive. Whether it departs with a bang, or a prolonged whimper, it often leaves behind an object of shrunken unrealness.

Sherwin B. Nuland

#16. And the cosmos ends. Not with a bang but with a whimper.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#17. The world won't end with a bang or a whimper. It'll end with the death screams of a thousand demons and a defiant, carefree, savage, wolfen howl.

Darren Shan

#18. This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.

T. S. Eliot

#19. The world didn't end with a whimper or a bang. Your life finished in complete silence. Gone in a blink. And then there was nothing.

F.K. Preston

#20. Welcome to the end of the world, it said. Not with a bang, but a whimper.

Anonymous

#21. The world did not end with a bang, nor did it end with a whimper. It was more of a chomp. And a slurp.

J. Rudolph