Curiosity killed the cat

Because it was chasing what came after.

Cetians died eagerly,

curious as to what came next.

— Ursula K. Le Guin, The Word for World is Forest

Not ideas, you know,

but a way of putting them.

— George Eliot, Middlemarch

If death catches us

we only have ourselves to blame.

– Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking

Be careful of the worlds you enter;

they may not let you leave.

A corporate attempt

to soothe my nerves.

— Some guy in Listening To Kenny G