“There are two places in the world where men can most effectively disappear — the city of London and the South Seas.”
– Herman Melville
Disappear
Fatal
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.”
– Mark Twain.
Traveller
“I have never found the companion
that was so companionable
as solitude.”
– Henry David Thoreau.
Intelligence
“Nothing develops
intelligence like travel.”
– Émile Zola
The Merchant of Venice
“If you prick us, do we not bleed?
If you tickle us, do we not laugh?
If you poison us, do we not die?
And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?”
– William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice (act 3, scene 1)
The Balcony (scene)
“She speaks, yet she says nothing. What of that?
Her eye discourses. I will answer it.—
I am too bold. ‘Tis not to me she speaks.
Two of the fairest stars in all the heaven,
Having some business, do entreat her eyes
To twinkle in their spheres till they return.”
– William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet (act 2, scene 2)
The Walls of Verona
“There is no world without Verona walls,
But purgatory, torture, hell itself.
Hence “banished” is banish’d from the world,
And world’s exile is death.”
– William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
Entire worlds
“Whoever destroys a soul,
it is considered as if he destroyed an entire world.
And whoever saves a life,
it is considered as if he saved an entire world.”
– Jerusalem Talmud, Mishnah Sanhedrin 4:9
History
“Those who do not remember the past
are condemned to repeat it.”
– George Santayana
Yad Vashem
„To them I will give within my temple and its walls a memorial and a name better than sons and daughters; I will give them an everlasting name that will endure forever.“
– Isaiah 56:5