Bad night Quote by Fran Lebowitz

Our fantastic civilization has fallen out of touch with many aspects of nature, and with none more completely than with night.

— Henry Beston

When our days become dreary with low-hovering clouds and our nights become darker than a thousand midnights, we will know that we are living…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

“Our fantastic civilization has fallen out of touch with many aspects of nature, and with none more completely than with night. Primitive folk, gathered…

— Henry Beston

There is certainly a longstanding idea within western culture that civilization is only a thin veneer. As soon as something happens, say a war…

— Rutger Bregman

The human race is doomed to sink back farther and farther into the primitive night ere again it begins its bloody climb upward to…

— Jack London

Civilization is like a thin layer of ice upon a deep ocean of chaos and darkness.

— Werner Herzog

The night Makes everything grotesque. Is it because Night is the nature of man's interior world?

— Wallace Stevens

Human civilization has been no more than a strange luminescence growing more intense by the hour, of which no one can say when it…

— W. G. Sebald

civilization is a transient sickness.

— Robinson Jeffers

The sense of a long last night over civilization is back again.

— Norman Mailer

There's no such thing as civilization. The word just means the art of living in cities.

— Roger Zelazny

Civilization is the world with its leg asleep.

— Austin O'Malley