Before Quote by Clifford D. Simak

The time will come to every human being when it must be known how well he can bear to die.

— Samuel Johnson

If a man keeps his trap shut, the world will beat a path to his door.

— Franklin P. Adams

Rest enough for the individual man, too much and too soon, and we call it death. But for man, no rest and no ending.…

— H. G. Wells

. . . from what he knew about the Creatures of the Dark they wouldn't waste their time laying elaborate traps. They'd just eat someone.

— Mercedes Lackey

“Anything was better than waiting in that hole trying to figure out what to think about in his last moments on earth, waiting to…

— Mark Bowden

The world rolls under the long thrust of his heel. Over the cage floor the horizons come.

— Ted Hughes

And so, being in Heaven, it was easy for him to lose sight of earth.

— Victor Hugo

Then out spake brave Horatius, The Captain of the Gate: 'To every man upon this earth Death cometh soon or late. And how can…

— Anonymous

There came to him an image of man’s whole life upon the earth. It seemed to him that all man’s life was like a…

— Thomas Wolfe

He almost danced to the fridge, found the three least hairy things in it, put them on a plate and watched them intently for…

— Douglas Adams

“The brevity of his life makes the sky a dark lid against which he will forever crack his head, to fall back onto earth,…

— Milan Kundera

He that in the ordinary affairs of life would admit of nothing but direct plain demonstration would be sure of nothing in this world…

— John Locke