Atheism Quote by George Santayana

You know what despair is; then winter should have meaning for you.

— Louise Glück

I'm a student of history and know that civilizations get lost - they are born and die - and so I recognize the tender…

— Gangaji

There is the extreme of hopelessness and the inevitability of doom, a deep despair that comes from the sense that our industrial, consuming society…

— Sam Keen

The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed, there is no winter and no night; all tragedies, all ennui, vanish, - all…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“After many trials the God and his love end happily—tho' not all remember this conclusion—which is less memorable than the moment when everything was…

— John Crowley

That which we call civilization is merely the accumulated debris of a chilling number of bad nights.

— Fran Lebowitz

It’s the end. It’s the end of the civilization. We’re going down. No, it’s sure not too attractive. Lenticels. I just hope my kids…

— Anonymous

Tragedy is always a mistake; and the loneliness of the deepest thinker, the widest lover, ceases to be pathetic to us so soon as…

— Margaret Fuller

Let no one despair, even though in the darkest night the last star of hope may disappear.

— Friedrich Schiller

It is not despair, for despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not.

— Anonymous

Civilization rests on a set of promises; if the promises are broken too often, the civilization dies, no matter how rich it may be,…

— Herbert

When a civilization, a race, a people, a society, when they lack love, they are soon destroyed.

— Frederick Lenz