John Hurt

I'd love to claim that what I have done in my life is of my doing, but it's not of my doing at all. I've blown around in the wind like a mad thing, influenced by this and that - like a piece of paper: like the boy in that scene in 'American Beauty' watching a piece of paper blowing hither and thither.

British Actor

Karl Philipp Moritz

I had almost forgotten to tell you that I have already been to the Parliament House; and yet this is of most importance. For, had I seen nothing else in England but this, I should have thought my journey thither amply rewarded.

German Author

Friedrich Nietzsche

Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

German Philosopher

Gerard Manley Hopkins

It is a happy thing that there is no royal road to poetry. The world should know by this time that one cannot reach Parnassus except by flying thither.

English Poet

Lydia M. Child

Home - that blessed word, which opens to the human heart the most perfect glimpse of Heaven, and helps to carry it thither, as on an angel's wings.

American Activist

Rebecca West

There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vital experience.

Irish Author

William Henry Ashley

On my passage thither, I discovered nothing remarkable in the features of the country.

American Businessman

Used in older texts, so it's rare in modern conversations or writing.

Archaic Term

Might be used to give a story or poem an old-fashioned or formal tone.

Literary Flair

It's crucial to understand the old context 'thither' comes from to use it properly.

Understanding Context

Think of 'thither' as a marker for direction in a narrative, like 'stage left' in theater.

Directional Marker

Visualizing a scene helps grasp 'thither's sense of direction when it's used.

Imagine the Scene

Gives historical or biblical texts a period-correct sound and feel.

Historical Texture

 The same wind that carries them back would bring us thither?" That's a great question. And you know what, it was also being asked at roughly the same time by the Resterners -- by the people in the rest of the world --

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