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That's from "The Hollow Men" by T. S. Eliot. That poems packed with allusions, but, as far as I know, those lines are his own.
T. S. Eliot said something close to that.
As best I remember:
"This is the way the world ends,
This is the way the world ends,
This is the way the world ends,
Not with a bang, but a whimper."
Tom K is correct. I would add that Elliott was a depressive right-wing gay during WW2, which maybe explains some of his poetry output.
Poet T.S. Eliot wrote it in his saga poem "The Wasteland". "...this is the way the world ends, not with a bang but a whimper."
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