Guess the movie, guess the quote source

[katdad]

Below is a quote that seems to suggest a particular sequence from a famous SF movie. Note that the quote itself isn't from the movie but it is from another well known source.

For a fun brain teaser, can you 1) guess the movie and the specific sequence that the quote seems to describe, and 2) tell where the quote itself comes from?

"Ever he would wander, selfcompelled, to the extreme limit of his cometary orbit, beyond the fixed stars and variable suns and telescopic planets ... to the extreme boundary of space ... Somewhere imperceptibly he would hear and obey the summons of recall... he would somehow reappear reborn above delta in the constellation of Cassiopeia and after incalculable eons of peregrination return an estranged avenger, a wreaker of justice on malefactors, a dark crusader, a sleeper awakened..."