Civilization Quote by W. G. Sebald

“From the earliest times, human civilization has been no more than a strange luminescence growing more intense by the hour, of which no one…

— W.G. Sebald

What is called Western Civilization is in an advanced state of decomposition, and another Dark Ages will soon be upon us, if, indeed, it…

— Malcolm Muggeridge

“Like our bodies and our desires, the machines we have devised are possessed of a heart which is slowly reduced to embers. From the…

— W.G. Sebald

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

— Henry Beston

Certain periods in history suddenly lift humanity to an observation point where a clear light falls upon a world previously dark.

— Anonymous

Anticipating the end of the world is humanity's oldest passtime

— David Mitchell

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

— Norman Mailer

Civilization may progress, human nature will remain the same throughout all ages.

— H. P. Blavatsky

. . .in August in Mississippi there’s a few days somewhere about the middle of the month when suddenly there’s a foretaste of fall,…

— William Faulkner

The more rapidly a civilization progresses, the sooner it dies for another to rise in its place.

— Havelock Ellis

Civilization in its present form hasn't got long.

— James Lovelock

Humanity today is like a waking dreamer, caught between the fantasies of sleep and the chaos of the real world. The mind seeks but…

— Anonymous