Brutus, Act IV, scene iii.
Source: Julius Caesar (1599)
“Life’s a voyage that’s homeward bound.”
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Herman Melville
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The quote "Life’s a voyage that’s homeward bound." is famous quote by Herman Melville (1818–1891), American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet.
Variant: Whoever afflict us, whatever surround, Life is a voyage that's homeward-bound!
Source: White-Jacket (1850), Ch. 93
Context: The worst of our evils we blindly inflict upon ourselves; our officers cannot remove them, even if they would. From the last ills no being can save another; therein each man must be his own saviour. For the rest, whatever befall us, let us never train our murderous guns inboard; let us not mutiny with bloody pikes in our hands. Our Lord High Admiral will yet interpose; and though long ages should elapse, and leave our wrongs unredressed, yet, shipmates and world-mates! let us never forget, that, Whoever afflict us, whatever surround, Life is a voyage that's homeward-bound!
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