“Om te weten waar we heen willen, is het goed te beseffen waar we vandaan gekomen zijn.”

[Mineke Schipper, In het begin was er niemand, uitg. Bert Bakker 2010]

“Another similar quote is ‘You never know where you're going until you get there.’ This is sung by Sylvester the Cat (Mel Blanc, vocal artist) in the Warner Brothers/Merrie Melodies cartoon, Back Alley Op-Roar released in theaters on March 27, 1948.
The cartoon was written by Michael Maltese and Tedd Pierce so it may be their quote.
Music by Carl W. Stalling”

[Fom an e-mail response by John Scialli]

“Forget about what you are escaping from,” he said, quoting an old maxim of Kornblum’s. “Reserve your anxiety for what you are escaping to”

[Michael Chabon, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay]

“Als je geen bestemming hebt kom je altijd aan.”

[Peter Eversteyn]

“I ain't got to where I'm going but I'm past where I been.”

“By now I was feeling that wherever I was, I should be somewhere else.”

[Russell Hoban, Linger Awhile]

“If you don't know where you're going, you don't belong where you are.”
[John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany]

“Where am I?” I said. I didn't want to say it but I wanted to know where I was.
[Len Deighton, Spy Story]

“If you ain't got nowheres to run off from you must not have no place to run to.”
[Cormac McCarthy, Outer Dark]

“I have no idea where I'm going but here's the real question:
What am I doing here in the first place?”
[Art Buchwald, columnist for The Washington Post]

“Met mijn gedachten ergens anders, ben ik altijd overal. ”
[Loesje]

“Remember, Comrade Reed, what matters now is no longer where you're going --- it is what you're running away from.”
[Grigory Zinoviev, Lenin's fellow Bolshevik leader, played by Jerzy Kosinski in the movie Reds]