“Humanity ought to be the shining light and roaring thunder that fills up the vastly empty and silent universe.”
The Transhumanism Handbook, 2019
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Malcolm Lowry book Under the Volcano
Source: Under the Volcano (1947), Ch. XII (p. 346)
Koho Kenichi (1241–1316) Japanese sangha of Rinzai school in Kamakura era
Japanese Death Poems. Compiled by Yoel Hoffmann. ISBN 978-0-8048-3179-6
“Loud roared the dreadful thunder,
The rain a deluge showers.”
Andrew Cherry (1762–1812) irish writer
The Bay of Biscay (lyrics, c. 1805), reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“We are the boys
That fear no noise
Where the thundering cannons roar.”
Oliver Goldsmith She Stoops to Conquer
She Stoops to Conquer (1771), Act II
“As human beings, we have a natural compulsion to fill empty spaces.”
Will Shortz (1952) American puzzle creator and editor
Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist
Song lyrics, Death is Not the End
“Why are the heavens not filled with light? Why is the universe plunged into darkness?”
Edward Robert Harrison (1919–2007) British astronomer
Darkness at Night: a Riddle of the Universe (1987), p. 1