Nietzsche.

While discussing the death of god, Nietzsche says that the results are the opposite of that which one would expect:

"They are not at all sad and gloomy but rather a new and scarcely describable kind of light, happiness, relief, exhilaration, encouragement, dawn.

Indeed, we philosophers and "free spirits" feel, when we hear the news that "the old god is dead," as if a new dawn shone on us; our heart overflows with gratitude, amazement, premonitions, expectations. At long last the horizon appears free to us again, even if it should not be bright; at long last our ships may venture out again, venture out to face any danger; all the daring of the loving of knowledge is permitted again; the sea, our sea, lies open again; perhaps there has never been such an "open sea.""