Not With A Bang But A Whimper Quotes

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

T. S. Eliot

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

Anonymous

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

Shannon Celebi

#6. 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

#7. 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

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

T. S. Eliot

#9. 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

#10. As any editor will tell you, startling newsroom revelations are generally met with queries about where the information came from and how the reporter got it. Seriously startling revelations are followed by the vetting of libel lawyers.

Graydon Carter

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

Mira Grant

#12. 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

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

Kami Garcia

#14. Feelings are murky, contrived and confusing. And the worst thing about them is no matter how hard you try, you can never sort them. They tangle more and more with thinking.

Saru Singhal

#15. People are not going to like everything.

Nick Frost

#16. Wealthy people attract critics like wealthy ships attract pirates.

Orrin Woodward

#17. 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

#18. 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

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

Andrea Speed

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

Victoria Schwab

#21. 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

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

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#23. 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

#24. My only wish is that we leave room for hope. There is good and bad in all things. We find what we expect to find. We see what we expect to see. I have learned that if I tilt my head just right and squint, the world outside is beautiful. The future is bright. There are good things to come.

Hugh Howey

#25. 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

#26. 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