We knew the world would not be the same.
A few people laughed, a few people cried, most people were silent.
I remember the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita.
Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty and to impress him takes on his multi-armed form and says: "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds."
I suppose we all thought that one way or another.