Sam/Martouf-Lantash, “This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang but a whimper.” ― T.S. Eliot

Jack, any. “Don't wake me for the end of the world unless it has very good special effects.” ― Roger Zelazny

Sam, any. “When you expect the world to end at any moment, you know there is no need to hurry. You take your time, you do your work well.”
― Thomas Merton

any. “Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds. (quoting the Bhagavad-Gita after witnessing the first Nuclear explosion.)”
― J. Robert Oppenheimer