" I have lived many years now under this meteor of a fixed Apocalypse.."

...I raised my eyes, and at the next moment shut them, as at a blow. High in the empty air blazed and streamed a great fire, which burnt and blinded me every time I raised my eyes to it. I have lived many years now under this meteor of a fixed Apocalypse, but I have never survived the feelings of that moment. Men eat and drink, buy and sell, marry, are given in marriage, and all the time there is something in the sky at which they cannot look. They must be very brave.

-"A Crazy Tale" (1896)

[Found in volume XIV of The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton]