“Behind every man now alive stand thirty ghosts, for that is the ratio by which the dead outnumber the living.”

“We stand now at the turning point between two eras. Behind us is a past to which we can never return ...”

“If man can live in Manhattan, he can live anywhere.”

“Now I understand,” said the last man.”

“And Stormgren hoped that when Karellen was free to walk once more on Earth, he would one day come to these northern forests, and stand beside the grave of the first man to be his friend.”

“It was a pity that there was no radar to guide one across the trackless seas of life. Every man had to find his own way, steered by some secret compass of the soul. And sometimes, late or early, the compass lost its power and spun aimlessly on its bearings.Alan Bishop”

“All human plans [are] subject to ruthless revision by Nature, or Fate, or whatever one preferred to call the powers behind the Universe.”