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{{quote|Four hundred centuries have passes since man stepped out into the cold depths of space. Forty thousand years. An age so long that that its history lies shrouded in legend. Who knows how Mankind came to be scattered across a million disparate worlds? Who remembers the wars that tore ancient Earth asunder and dragged man down to the level of brute beasts? Who could recognize the names of Earth's ancient ruins, of nations destroyed and peoples long since crumbled to dust? To these questions, there can be no answers. From these times there come only whispers of horror and death. |'''[[Warhammer 40000]]'''}}
{{quote|Oh! We're so tired
Watching the world expire
Time that we retire
Up in [[Ruins of the Modern Age|cathedral spires]].|'''Cathedral Spires''' by [[Judas Priest]]}}
{{quote|The once green earth
Is scattered with horror and gray
No winners, just losers
Who die with a few months delay|''Straight to Hell'' by [[Running Wild (band)|Running Wild]]}}
{{quote|'''Cathy:''' Does the future ''always'' have to be post-apocalyptic?
'''Dewey:''' No, but it helps.|''[[Unshelved]]'', [http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20081123 2008 Nov. 23] review of ''Shade's Children'' by Garth Nix}}
{{quote|Learn by heart this poem of mine
so, dead, I still will share the time
when you cannot endure a house
deprived of water, light, or gas,
and, stumbling out to find a cave,
roots, berries, nuts to stay alive,
get you a cudgel, find a well,
a bit of land, and, if it's held,
kill the owner, eat the corpse.
I'll trudge beside your faltering steps
between the ruins' broken stones,
whispering "You are dead; you're done!
Where would you go? That soul you own
froze solid when you left your town."
Learn by heart this poem of mine.|'''György Faludy''' ''Learn by Heart This Poem of Mine''}}
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{{quote|"''[[Tech Marches On|I do not know]] with what weapons [[World War III]] will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with [[Scavenger World|sticks and stones]].''"|'''[[Albert Einstein]]'''}}
{{quote|The explosion that destroyed our city
Razed our home, transformed our fields into wasteland
Was nothing compare to what was now happening
To those who survived|65 Days of Static, ''Another Code Against The Gone''}}
{{quote|"'[[Thou Shalt Not Kill]]... And ye Shalt build up the old wastes...' Sounds like a [[The Bible|mighty good book o' rules.]] [[Too Dumb to Live|Too bad they didn't listen...]]"|'''Grandpa Squirrel''' ("They" being [[Humanity's Wake|humans]]), ''[[Peace on Earth]]''}}
{{quote|Not one will know of the war, not one
Will care at last when it is done.
Not one would care, neither bird nor tree
If mankind perished utterly.
And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn,
Would scarcely know that we were gone.|'''Sara Teasdale''', ''There Will Come Soft Rains,'' }}
{{quote|Termination (termination)
Expiration (expiration)
Cancellation (cancellation): Human Race
Expectation (expectation)
Liberation (liberation)
Population (population) laid to waste
See our mother
Put to death
See our mother die
[interlude]
Smouldering decay
Take her breath away
Millions of our years
In moments dissapear
...
Fire
Is the outcome of hipocracy
Darkest potency
In the exit of humanity
Coulor our world Blackened
Blackened|[[Metallica]]}}
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