Lewis Carroll: Going

Variant: One day Alice came to a fork in the road and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree. ‘Which road do I take?’ she asked. ‘Where do you want to go?’ was his response. ‘I don’t know,’ Alice answered. ‘Then,’ said the cat, ‘it doesn’t matter.
Source: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Cats , Tree

“Begin at the beginning, the King said, very gravely, and go on till you come to the end: then stop.”

Lewis Carroll book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Source: Alice in Wonderland

“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."
"I don't much care where –"
"Then it doesn't matter which way you go.”

Lewis Carroll book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Source: Alice in Wonderland

Way , Dependency

“I wonder if the snowthe trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says, "Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.”

Lewis Carroll

Source: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass

Kiss , Sleep , Tree , Summer

“If everybody minded their own business, the world would go around a great deal faster than it does.”

Lewis Carroll book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Source: Alice in Wonderland

World , Business

“In a Wonderland they lie, Dreaming as the days go by, Dreaming as the summers die:
Ever drifting down the stream- Lingering in the golden gleam- Life, what is it but a dream?”

Lewis Carroll book Through the Looking-Glass

Source: Through the Looking Glass

Life , Lie , Dreams , Summer

“My dear, here we must run as fast as we can, just to stay in place. And if you wish to go anywhere you must run twice as fast as that.”

Lewis Carroll book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Source: Alice in Wonderland

“If you don't know where you are going any road can take you there”

Lewis Carroll book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Variant: If you do not know where you want to go, it doesn't matter which path you take.
Source: Alice in Wonderland

“I believe this thought, of the possibility of death — if calmly realised, and steadily faced would be one of the best possible tests as to our going to any scene of amusement being right or wrong.”

Lewis Carroll book Sylvie and Bruno

Preface
Sylvie and Bruno (1889)
Context: I believe this thought, of the possibility of death — if calmly realised, and steadily faced would be one of the best possible tests as to our going to any scene of amusement being right or wrong. If the thought of sudden death acquires, for you, a special horror when imagined as happening in a theatre, then be very sure the theatre is harmful for you, however harmless it may be for others; and that you are incurring a deadly peril in going. Be sure the safest rule is that we should not dare to live in any scene in which we dare not die.
But, once realise what the true object is in life — that it is not pleasure, not knowledge, not even fame itself, 'that last infirmity of noble minds' — but that it is the development of character, the rising to a higher, nobler, purer standard, the building-up of the perfect Man — and then, so long as we feel that this is going on, and will (we trust) go on for evermore, death has for us no terror; it is not a shadow, but a light; not an end, but a beginning!

Death

“How puzzling all these changes are! I'm never sure what I'm going to be, from one minute to another.”

Lewis Carroll book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Source: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Change

“The hurrier I go, the behinder I get.”

Lewis Carroll

“I could tell you my adventures—beginning from this morning,” said Alice a little timidly; “but it’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”

Lewis Carroll

Source: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass

Personality

“No wise fish would go anywhere without a porpoise.”