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Doom Quotes: March, 2025 Edition
This post contains ‘doom quotes’ posted to my Bluesky account in March, 2025. Please follow me on Bluesky for more daily ‘doom quotes.’ Thanks!
MARCH, 2025
March 31, 2025
“The world was silent. Silent? It would be hard to convey the stillness of it. All the sounds of man, the bleating of sheep, the cries of birds, the hum of insects, the stir that makes the background of our lives—all that was over.”
The Time Machine, H.G. Wells
March 30, 2025
“The world’s gone to hell. No more babies, no more future. Governments collapsing, armies fighting over the last scraps of civilization. People killing each other for a can of soup. It’s extinction …”
March 29, 2025
“The air was thick with the smell of burning, and the sky was a dull red smear, like blood seeping through a bandage. We’d killed the planet, and now it was coughing up its last rancid breaths while we scrabbled in the dirt for something to eat.”
The Road, Cormac McCarthy
March 28, 2025
“We are living in dangerously weird times now. Smart people just shrug and admit they’re dazed and confused. The only ones left with any confidence at all are the New Dumb. It is the beginning of the end of our world as we knew it. Doom is the operative ethic.”
Kingdom of Fear: Loathing Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century, Hunter S. Thompson
March 27, 2025
“The air burned, and the sky was a furnace, and there was no escaping the heat that killed twenty million in a single day.”
Ministry for the Future, Kim Stanley Robinson
March 26, 2025
“The earth is a broken machine,
spitting oil into the sea,
its gears grinding down
to a halt—
we watch the gauges climb,
red needles piercing the future,
and still we feed it
our trash, our hunger,
waiting for the shudder
that says it’s done.”
— Alice James
March 25, 2025
“The Great Collapse began when the storms grew too fierce to rebuild against, when the crops failed season after season, and when the refugees overwhelmed the borders of nations too selfish to see that their own end was tied to the chaos they’d ignored for decades.”
The Collapse of Wetern Civilization: A View from the Future, Namoi Oreskes, Erik M. Conway
March 24, 2025
The sky was a bruise, purple and yellow, swollen with heat and the weight of a thousand storms. The cities crumbled into the sea, and the land cracked open like an egg, spilling dust and fire. We’d burned it all down, thinking we were gods…”
The Book of Phoenix, Nnedi Okorafor
March 23, 2025
“Earth’s become a junkyard—trash piled higher than the skyscrapers, air too thick to breathe, and the oceans choked with garbage. Humanity thought they could just leave, escape to space, but the planet’s dying scream echoes louder every year we ignore it.”
March 22, 2025
“the human race being effectively extinct by the end of the century is now the main scenario meaning it is a lot more likely to happen than not and very possibly it is inevitable”
March 21, 2025
Oh, America. I wish I could tell you that this was still America, but I’ve come to realize that you can’t have a country without people. And there are no people here. No, my friends. This is now the United States of Zombieland.”
March 20, 2025
“The end isn’t coming—it’s here. The walls are closing in, the shadows are growing, and no one’s coming to save us. We built this nightmare, and now we’ve got to live in it until it swallows us whole.”
March 19, 2025
“If the temperature rises beyond a certain point, the release of methane from melting permafrost, the loss of albedo from shrinking ice caps, and the dieback of forests could accelerate warming uncontrollably…”
The Case Against the Global Economy, Jerry Mander, Edward Goldsmith
March 18, 2025
“This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.”
The Hollow Men, T.S. Eliot
March 17, 2025
“But in the next moment I cursed myself for being so great a fool as to dream of hope at all. I knew that there was no longer any possibility of escape—that my fate was sealed—that I was irretrievably doomed to perish in the abyss…”
A Descent into the Maelstrom, E.A. Poe
March 16, 2025
“For every triumph is but a prelude to collapse, and the ambitions of the mighty are doomed to crumble beneath the weight of their own excess.”
Policraticus John of Salisbury (c. 1120–1180)
March 15, 2025
“This is no abstract crisis—it’s the porch you can’t sit on because the heat chokes the air, the well that’s dry for the first time in a century. We’re not waiting for the end; we’re living it …”
Before it’s Gone: Stories from the Front Lines of Climate Change in Small Town America
March 14, 2025
“The more doom-filled reports the scientists release, the stronger the pushback from politicians whose power, ideology, and funding depends on maintaining the status quo, and who are supported by those who fear the solutions to climate change more than they fear its impacts.”
Saving Us, Katharine Hayhoe
March 11, 12, 13, 2025
No doom quote.
March 10, 2025
“The evidence before us suggests that we are now on a path to a global environmental catastrophe that will involve the collapse of our current industrial consumer societies. This is not a distant possibility but something unfolding now…”
Deep Adaptation: Navigating the Realities of Climate Chaos, Jem Bendell, Rupert Read
March 9, 2025
“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—forever… The old civilizations claimed that they were founded on love or justice. Ours is founded upon hatred.”
1984, George Orwell
March 8, 2025
“Beyond the town, the fields were a wasteland of brittle stalks, the earth split open in jagged fissures, and the sky above glared down with a merciless, unblinking heat that seemed to promise no end, no rain, only the slow suffocation of all life.”
The Drought, J.G. Ballard
March 7, 2025
“We live in a strange time where it is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism. The catastrophe is not coming—it is already here, embedded in the normal functioning of our economic system…”
Living in the End Times, Slavoj Žižek
March 6, 2025
“There’s no scenario in which we keep adding carbon to the atmosphere and the world stops getting hotter, and the hotter it gets, the harder it will be for humans to survive…”
How to Avoid a Climate Disaster, BIll Gates
March 5, 2025
“Every time I hear a political speech or I read those of our leaders, I am horrified at having, for years, heard nothing which sounded human. It is always the same words telling the same lies.”
Notebooks, 1935-1951, Albert Camus
March 4, 2025
“Civilization was a thin, dangerously fragile veneer, and when that veneer cracked, man became one with the beasts again, falling back into the slime of the primeval abyss he prided himself on having climbed up from.”
Darkness and Dawn, George Allan England
March 3, 2025
“It is, I promise, worse than you think. If your anxiety about global warming is dominated by fears of sea-level rise, you are barely scratching the surface of what terrors are possible—food shortages, refugee emergencies, climate wars, and economic devastation.”
The Unihabitable Earth, David Wallace-Wells
March 2, 2025
“Our planet’s been telling us for years it’s done with us, and we didn’t listen. Now, every breath we take is a countdown, every harvest a ghost of what it used to be. The Earth is a dying mother, and we’re the children too stubborn to let her go.”
Interstellar (2024)
March 1, 2025
“We’re dumping carbon dioxide into the atmosphere like it’s an open sewer, and the consequences are piling up: stronger storms, deeper droughts, entire ecosystems collapsing. Future generations will look back at us and ask, ‘What were you thinking?'”
An Inconvenient Truth (2006)
More for me, please, Prof.! Thanks.
Yep, keep them coming. As our planet degrades: the terrifyingly accurate Doom Quotes become our Epitaphs.
Bob Shaw Are Humans Smarter than Yeast?
My sincere condolences to you upon the passing of your fur-baby Rosie. If canines ruled the planet: we would all have fun chasing balls and squirrels instead of money.
Bob Shaw Are Humans Smarter than Yeast?
This is great, thanks! I look for your posts every day. Many of these quotes perfectly capture my feelings and thinking about our bleak situation, and I end up reading more from the source of the quote. So yes, good idea and I hope to see more of these compilations!
yes, appreciate the collected doomer quotes! Gives me a great book list! Useful to remind ppl of who, writers, they’ve read or watched. A list of references for non-doomers proving climate collapse has been noted for generations.