Atheism Quote by George Sterling

What silence rules the ghostly hours That guard the close of human sleep!

— George Sterling

Within its gates I heard the sound Of winds in cypress caverns caught Of huddling tress that moaned, and sought To whisper what their…

— George Sterling

The cool, grey city of love.

— George Sterling

“The pathway traced with blood and tears, and dust of all our father's dead, Whose backward footsteps, wandering, red, Fade to the mist of…

— George Sterling

“A little while, their hunger unfulfilled, The mothlike worlds flit 'round the guttering sun. ("Ephemera")”

— George Sterling

Thy Banners gleam a little, and are furled; Against thy turrets surge His phantom tow'rs; Drugged with his Opiates the nations nod, Refusing still…

— George Sterling

And starward drifts the stricken world, Lone in unalterable gloom Dead, with a universe for tomb, Dark, and to vaster darkness whirled. (“The Testimony…

— George Sterling

O Space and Time and stars at strife, How dreadful your infinity! Shrined by your termless trinity, How strange, how terrible, is life! (“The…

— George Sterling

A prison becomes a home when you have the key.

— George Sterling

“When sunset, like a crimson throat to hell, is cavernous... (“A Wine of Wizardry”)”

— George Sterling

The candle glimmers but an hour. The night Looms in its ancient hunger. Would you know The tragedy of human love and need? Gaze…

— George Sterling

“Till her appointed course be run; Till on the darkness faint her breath Flown to the silent void, and Death Sit crowned upon the…

— George Sterling