Travel - Quotes from Science Fiction

A lot of quotations carefully collected from a very big amount of books and divided by categories.

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I was caught up in the happiness of those who go on journeys, a feeling of hope mixed with a sense of freedom.

- Jules Verne, Journey to the Centre of the Earth (1864), translated by William Butcher (1992)

''Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?'' ''That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,'' said the Cat. ''I don't much care where - '' said Alice. ''Then it doesn't matter which way you go,'' said the Cat. '' - so long as I get somewhere,'' Alice added as an explanation. ''Oh, you're sure to do that,'' said the Cat, ''if you only walk long enough.''

- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures inWonderland (1865)

The Old Man of the Earth stooped over the floor of the cave, raised a huge stone from it, and left it leaning. It disclosed a great hole that went plumb-down. ''That is the way,'' he said. ''But there are no stairs.'' ''You must throw yourself in. There is no other way.''

- George MacDonald, ''The Golden Key'' (1867)

Here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!

- Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There (1872)

Above them Phileas Fogg moved in majestic indifference. He was following his own rational orbit around the world, without bothering at all about the asteroids gravitating around him.

- Jules Verne, Around theWorld in Eighty Days (1873), translated by William Butcher (1995)

Phileas Fogg had won his bet. He had completed the journey round the world in 80 days. To do so, he had used every means of transport: steamship, train, carriage, yacht, cargo vessel, sled, and elephant. In all this the eccentric gentleman had displayed his marvellous qualities of composure and precision. But what was the point? What had he gained from all this commotion? What had he got out of his journey? Nothing, comes the reply? Nothing, agreed, were it not for a lovely wife, who - however unlikely it may seem - made him the happiest of men! In truth, wouldn't anyone go round the world for less?

- Jules Verne, Around theWorld in Eighty Days (1873), translated by William Butcher (1995)

When a journey begins badly it rarely ends well.

- Jules Verne, The Floating Island (1895), translator unknown (1896)

My! People come and go so quickly here!

- Noel Langley, Florence Ryerson, and Edgar AllanWoolf, TheWizard of Oz (film, 1939)

On the way he thought about coming home, and coming home he thought about going.Wherever he was he wished he were somewhere else, and when he got there he wondered why he'd bothered.

- Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth (1961)

Being lost is never a matter of not knowing where you are; it's a matter of not knowing where you aren't - and I don't care at all about where I'm not.

- Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth (1961)

Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.

- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle (1963)

It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.

- Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness (1969)

Travel was supposed to be broadening; why did I feel narrower?

- Margaret Atwood, Lady Oracle (1976)

The Bistromathic Drive had revealed to him that time and distance were one, that mind and Universe were one, that perception and reality were one, and that the more one traveled the more one stayed in one place, and that what with one thing and another he would rather just stay put for a while and sort it all out in his mind, which was now at one with the Universe so it shouldn't take too long.

- Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe, and Everything (1982)

No matter where you go, there you are.

- Earl Mac Rauch, The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai across the 8th Dimension (film, 1984)

Where we're going we don't need roads.

- Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale, Back to the Future (film, 1985)

So I wished - vainly, I knew - to travel this river forever with such uncertainty in my mind, to be forever with her, riding through the cemeteries of the night, on, on, on, on, until night gave way to eternity, with the presence of hate in the world only as sure as that of love. Of all the world's lies, that would be the best.

- Richard Calder, Dead Girls (1992)

Gypsies never belong to the places they travel. They only belong to other gypsies.

- Ellen Klages, ''Time Gypsy'' (1998)