The undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns.

If you do not expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or trail.

Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.

Death is not the worst that can happen to men.

Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded them, and all true worldly fame subsides from their high estimate beyond the stars.

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

To be admitted to Nature’s hearth costs nothing. None is excluded, but excludes himself. You have only to push aside the curtain.

Please accept my resignation. I don’t care to belong to any club that will have me as a member.

Truth is mysterious, elusive, always to be conquered. Liberty is dangerous, as hard to live with as it is elating. We must march toward these two goals, painfully but resolutely, certain in advance of our failings on so long a road.

No one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important.

My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning.

My son likes to go see mines and electric plants, or the Large Hadron Collider, and we’ve had a chance to see a lot of interesting stuff.

The book is not really the container for the book. The book itself is the narrative. It’s the thing that people create.

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.

Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.

Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel.

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all.

I love to travel, but hate to arrive.

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new at all.

Biography lends to death a new terror.

U2’s best work has always been when we didn’t know what we’re doing.

Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.

We’re all going to die, all of us; what a circus! That alone should make us love each other, but it doesn’t. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities. We are eaten up by nothing.

War does not determine who is right – only who is left.

Crazy players love me. I don’t know why.

A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.

I was a chemistry major, but I’m always winding up as a teacher in English departments, so I’ve brought scientific thinking to literature. There’s been very little gratitude for this.

The first step towards vice is to shroud innocent actions in mystery, and whoever likes to conceal something sooner or later has reason to conceal it.

When exploring London, you will come across lots of excitement by chance, so try to take everything in rather than just rushing around to all of the major tourist haunts.

It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.

I’m not afraid to die, I just don’t want to be there when it happens.

What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men each one of whom is a valuable, unique experiment on the part of nature are shot down wholesale.

The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.

I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member.

Millions of people die every day. Everyone’s got to go sometime.

Modern travelling is not travelling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel.

Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.

We are so very ‚umble.

You’re born. You suffer. You die. Fortunately, there’s a loophole.

I was always very curious as a young man about why older writers who I met seemed so indifferent to what was going on, whereas I, in my 20s, was reading everything. Everything seemed important. But they were only interested in the writers they admired when they were young, and I didn’t understand it then, but now, now I understand it.

I never liked Hans Christian Andersen because I knew he was always getting at me.

Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.

We have to stop and be humble enough to understand that there is something called mystery.

We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies – it is the first law of nature.

The traveller has reached the end of the journey!

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.

The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.

Adventuring can be for the ordinary person with ordinary qualities, such as I regard myself.

I make preparations both to live and to die every day, but with the emphasis on not dying, and on acting as if I was going to carry on living.

A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

If you can’t beat them, arrange to have them beaten.

As he was valiant, I honour him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him.

Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an death’s the other.

The truth is of course is that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time.

Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have Immortal longings in me.

Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.

In books lies the soul of the whole past time.

Even today we raise our hand against our brother… We have perfected our weapons, our conscience has fallen asleep, and we have sharpened our ideas to justify ourselves as if it were normal we continue to sow destruction, pain, death. Violence and war lead only to death.