Clifford D. Simak

Must faith be exactly that, the willingness and ability to believe in the face of a lack of evidence? If one could…

— Clifford D. Simak

Time is still the great mystery to us. It is no more than a concept; we don't know if it even exists.

— Clifford D. Simak

My reluctance to use alien invasion is due to the feeling that we are not likely to be invaded and taken over.

— Clifford D. Simak

Inside the time bubble we do not age. We age only when we are outside of it.

— Clifford D. Simak

The chain of life runs smoothly from one generation to the next and none of the links stand out except here and…

— Clifford D. Simak

“Man's inability to understand and appreciate the thought and viewpoint of another man would be a stumbling block which no amount of…

— Clifford D. Simak

Here lies one from a distant star, but the soil is not alien to him, for in death he belongs to the…

— Clifford D. Simak

I have not long to live. I have lasted more than a man's average allotted span, and while I still am hale…

— Clifford D. Simak

I did not want to move. For I had the feeling that this was a place, once seen, that could not be…

— Clifford D. Simak

“Money here on Earth is more than the paper or the metal that you use for money, more than the rows of…

— Clifford D. Simak

“Bridgeport, Wis. July 11, 1987 I write this letter to myself, so that the postmark may prove beyond controversy the day and…

— Clifford D. Simak

It is only of life on Earth, however, that one can speak with any certainty. It seems to me that all life…

— Clifford D. Simak

This is the very center of everything there is. A huge black hole eating up the galaxy. The end of everything.

— Clifford D. Simak

When I talk of the purpose of life, I am thinking not only of human life, but of all life on Earth…

— Clifford D. Simak

I have tried at times to place humans in perspective against the vastness of universal time and space. I have been concerned…

— Clifford D. Simak

“He stood and watched his friend hobble around the house, felt the cold claw of loneliness reach out and touch him with…

— Clifford D. Simak

What do you mean by faith? Is faith enough for Man? Should he be satisfied with faith alone? Is there no way…

— Clifford D. Simak

Once there had been joy, but now there was only sadness, and it was not, he knew, alone the sadness of an…

— Clifford D. Simak

And time itself? Time was a never-ending medium that stretched into the future and the past - except there was no future…

— Clifford D. Simak

“The whole procedure of his thinking, Jason knew, was an imbecilic exercise; there was no compelling reason for him to seek an…

— Clifford D. Simak

Before Man goes to the stars he should learn how to live on Earth .

— Clifford D. Simak

“The world had opened out and so had the universe, or what she since had thought must have been the universe, lying…

— Clifford D. Simak

“In this room, he told himself, history might have been written, the course of cosmic empire might have been shaped and the…

— Clifford D. Simak

Less than an hour before he'd congratulated himself on escaping all the traps of Earth, all the snares of Man. Not knowing…

— Clifford D. Simak

“It's like coming home," said Webster and he wasn't talking to the dog. "It's like you've been away for a long, long…

— Clifford D. Simak