Amelia Atwater-Rhodes Quotes

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 don’t live to see the last days. The things burning and people living in cellars. Violet. The only thing worse than the thought it may all come tumbling down is the thought that we may go on like this forever.

I have watched this famous island descending incontinently, fecklessly, the stairway which lead to a dark gulf.

There is light at the end of the tunnel for India, but it's that of an oncoming train which will run them over.

If human beings were shown what they're really like, they'd either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.

Civilization is going down the drain, and the sooner it does, the better.

Into the eternal darkness, into fire and into ice.

There will come a time of fire and night, when enemies rise and empires fall, when the stars themselves begin to die.

Is it eradicating evil? Or are we like children, left alone in the house at night, who light candle after candle to keep away the darkness. We don't see that the darkness has a purpose — though we may not understand it — and so, in our terror, we end up burning down the house!

In the zone of perdition where my youth went as if to complete its education, one would have said that the portents of an imminent collapse of the whole edifice of civilization had made an appointment.

There was, like, this black hole where the world used to be, and we were both falling toward it. What could we hold on to?

Man has ruled this world as a stumbling demented child king, long enough. And as his empire crumbles, my precious black widow shall rise as his most fitting successor.

The world is on fire! And you are laughing? You are deep in the dark. Will you not ask for a light?

Civilization is coming to an end, you understand.

The world is a den of thieves, and night is falling. Evil breaks its chains and runs through the world like a mad dog. The poison affects us all. No one escapes. Therefore let us be happy while we are happy. Let us be kind, generous, affectionate and good. It is necessary and not at all shameful to take pleasure in the little world.

In summary, our world is doomed.

In the dark colony of night, when I consider man's magnificent capacity for malice, madness, folly, envy, rage, and destructiveness, and I wonder whether we shall not end up as breakfast for newts and polyps, I seem to hear the muffled cries of all the words in all the books with covers closed.

He'd been wrong, there was a light at the end of the tunnel, and it was a flamethrower.

I watched the mighty skyline fall

Could the world fall?

Children of the future, watching empires fall. Madness the cup they drink from, self destruction the toll.

One fine day a predatory world shall consume itself.

He stepped to the window and pointed to the skyscrapers of the city. He said that we had to extinguish the lights of the world, and when we would see the lights of New York go out, we would know that our job was done.

What does civilization mean to you, and what would its ending bring to the world?

Everything is still falling apart.