“In an interstellar burst
I am back to save the universe”
Lyrics, OK Computer (1997)
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Thom Yorke99
English musician, philanthropist and singer-songwriter 1968Related quotes
Roger Waters (1943) English songwriter, bassist, and lyricist of Pink Floyd
Q Magazine, November 1992
Roger Keith "Syd" Barrett
“I was exhausted. Fighting to save the universe will do that.”
D.J. MacHale (1955) American television director and producer
“All the concentrated agony of the Universe bursts out in every living thing.”
Nikos Kazantzakis book The Saviors of God
The Saviors of God (1923)
Context: The wife of my God is matter; they wrestle with each other, they laugh and weep, they cry out in the nuptial bed of flesh.
They spawn and are dismembered. They fill sea, land, and air with species of plants, animals, men, and spirits. This primordial pair embraces, is dismembered, and multiplies in every living creature.
All the concentrated agony of the Universe bursts out in every living thing. God is imperiled in the sweet ecstasy and bitterness of flesh.
But he shakes himself free, he leaps out of brains and loins, then clings to new brains and new loins until the struggle for liberation again breaks out from the beginning.
“I am I and my circumstance, and if I don't save it I don't save myself.”
José Ortega Y Gasset (1883–1955) Spanish liberal philosopher and essayist
Meditations on Quixote (1914)
“She who saves a single soul, saves the universe.”
Lewis Carroll (1832–1898) English writer, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer
Source: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass
Morihei Ueshiba (1883–1969) founder of aikido
As quoted in Abundant Peace: The Biography of Morihei Ueshiba (1987) by John Stevens
“I am old. I am young. I am Gwion,
I am universal, I am possessed of penetrating wit.”
Taliesin (534–599) Welsh bard
A tradition about Taliesin states that he was once a boy named "Gwion".
Book of Taliesin (c. 1275?), The First Address of Taliesin