Desenna Quote by Kevin Emerson

“Civilization is but a thin veneer stretched across the passions of the human heart. And civilization doesn't just happen; we have to make it…

— Bill Moyers

“Civilization is perhaps nothing but a process of finding out what you cannot have.”

— Sherwood Anderson

“But the truth is that we’re all just stumbling around in the dark. Sometimes we hit something terrible.”

— Susan Ee

“This is the story of the end of the world, the rise and fall of human civilization, the creation of the Partials and the…

— Dan Wells

“The dark side of life has a way of finding us all anyway, so stop chasing it.”

— Marisha Pessl

“We all have a dark place in us. It's what we do with it and the choices we make.”

— Mary E. Pearson

“Man, not earth, makes civilization.”

— Ariel Durant

“Doesn’t part of the awe that fills us when we confront the unknown come from understanding that, should it at last flood into us…

— Nicole Krauss

“But I guess it never is what you worry over that comes to pass in the end. The real catastrophes are always different -…

— Karen Thompson Walker

“The world once purged by flood ends always again in the surer purgative of fire.”

— Milton Mayer

“That is how the worlds will end, in ash and flood, in darkness and in ice. That is the final destiny of the gods.”

— Neil Gaiman

“The Headlights lit the path we were traveling down, but only so far. After that, the world was dark and empty, full of possibility…

— S.C. Stephens