Blaise Pascal in one of the most famous of his pensées confesses to feeling «engulfed in the infinite immensity of spaces whereof I know nothing, and which know nothing of me, I am terrified... The eternal silence of those infinite spaces alarms me». (religion-online.org)
I had the sudden image of an armada of solitary humanoids in their big puffy spaceships drifting slowly through the silent and airless immensity of space. (discovermagazine.com)
The power of death, the immensity of space, the certainty of entropy, the «long - distance loneliness,» the fragility of community, our political paralysis — all are themes of the minstrels» art. (religion-online.org)