"Greed, I say, is a great flood; it is a whirlpool that sucks a person down, a constant yearning, always seeking a hold, continually in movement."
Siddhārtha Gautama Buddha
“Just as it was in the days of Noah, so will it be in the days of the Son of Man. People were eating, drinking, marrying and being given away in marriage, up to the very day Noah entered the ark. Then the flood came, and swept them all away."
Luke 17:26-27
"What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person is clinging to his piece of debris? What is the proper salutation between people as they pass each other in this flood?"
Leonard Cohen
"When you speak these things, they will not listen. When you call to them, they will not answer. 'This is the nation that would not listen to the Lord their God. Truth has perished among them. Raise up a dirge on the barren heights, for the Lord has rejected and abandoned them under His wrath. For the Judeans have done what is contemptible in My sight.' This is the Lord’s declaration. 'They have set up detestable things in the house that is called by My name — and defiled it.'" Jeremiah 7:27-30