Katharine Butler Hathaway Quotes

To go somewhere where nobody knows you, and to keep your eyes open... That was a beautiful concept in terms of putting yourself in a place to be inspired.

A man is never more his single separate self than when he sets out on a journey.

Do your work for six years; but in the seventh, go into solitude or among strangers, so that the memory of your friends does not hinder you from being what you have become.

To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change.

Jurgen loved London because he could get lost here. He said that it was the first time he could do that in eight years. No one knew him or bothered him. It is great for a person to be able to get lost.

I am restless. I don't mind leaving this comfortable, static life. I could live a year on my own in a remote village.

We in middle age require adventure.

Travel for me is all about transformation, and I'm fascinated by those people who really do come back from a trip unrecognizable to themselves and perhaps open to the same possibilities they'd have written off not a month before.

I feel like every five to seven years I really need to put myself in this position of discomfort and exploration, just to survive. Otherwise I feel like I'm falling asleep, like I'll go crazy if I don't do it.

We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.

I am ready to be alone.

Cherish your solitude. Take trains by yourself to places you have never been. Sleep out alone under the stars.

I travel because I like to move from place to place, I enjoy the sense of freedom it gives me, it pleases me to be rid of ties, responsibilities, duties, I like the unknown; I meet odd people who amuse me for a moment and sometimes suggest a theme for a composition; I am often tired of myself and I have a notion that by travel I can add to my personality and so change myself a little. I do not bring back from the journey quite the same self that I took

How I have walked... day after day, and all alone, to see if there was not something among the old things which was new!

And in the end, I lost him. I did it on purpose, the way Garance lost Baptiste in the crowd. I needed to be alone, I felt. I wanted to be going on alone to my future.

Almost everyone is dying to leave home, eventually; and almost everyone needs to.

Those who would see wonderful things must often be ready to travel alone.

I know where I'm going to be, I'm not traveling here and there and everywhere. That didn't necessarily prompt me to it but it definitely opened up my mind of saying okay, maybe this is a good time to do this.

And, one thing I definitely enjoyed personally, from a selfish point of view, was exploration and going to places that I had never been to before and learning, you know, meeting the people and getting to know, new sights and sounds, etc.

I'm about making music and spending time with my family. I've been in the spotlight so long that I'm looking for something different.

When you go from one place to another, you go with experience, you don't go with prescriptions.

No matter how close to yours another's steps have grown, in the end there is one dance you'll do alone.

As an actor, you tend to live in a really small world, which is not very healthy. It is enriching to go to new places, meet different people know and learn about things which you didn't know about.

I've been able to carve out spaces for myself. At Sundance, I'm in the mountains - my property is private. I get on a horse and ride for three, four hours. Sometimes five. I get lost. But when I'm in, I'm in.

It's not the destination that matters. It's the change of scene.