Kevin Morby Quotes

I feel I'm moving toward as well as away from something, and anything is possible.

As my wise friend Didi has more than once observed about life's passages, every departure entails an arrival elsewhere, every arrival implies a departure from afar.

Arrival at a new destination only occurs from leaving your current location.

When you grow up by the sea, you spend a good deal of time looking at the horizon. You wonder what on Earth the waves might bring - and where the sea might deposit you - until one day you know you have lived between two places, the scene of arrival and the point of departure.

Change is like that: you are no longer where you were; you are not yet where you will get; you are nowhere exactly.

Janie blinks and leans against the wall, just in case. But it's no one's dream. It's just the end of some things. And the beginning of others.

I'm kind of addicted to moving.

I have a thing for doors. I always think of them as a threshold to something new.

Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.

Change brings opportunities. On the other hand, change can be confusing.

Between two worlds life hovers like a star, twixt night and morn, upon the horizon's verge.

Every exit is an entry somewhere else.

Because we moved so much, I was always having to adapt and work out the lay of the land. So I felt envious of those who did not have to try.

I was from somewhere else. Then all of a sudden I was here, in New York. With one suitcase.

Life is full of borders. Some of them, once crossed, can never be crossed again in the other direction. But there are new countries to discover across every one.

A transition, by definition, means you start in one place and finish in another.

I've always been interested in arrival, and coming to a space, and even to looking back at where you were.

I have a mantra that people are naturally, fundamentally and inherently mobile.

The beginning of the end can feel a lot like the middle when you are living in it.

The moving van is a symbol of more than our restlessness, it is the most conclusive evidence possible of our progress.

Travel itself is part of some longer continuity.

So are you moving on now? Is that what brought you to the grand metropolis of Valladolid?” “No. The wind just blew me here.” “What? Like a plastic bag?” “I prefer to think of myself as a ship. Like a sailboat.

The individual and the race are always moving, and as we drift into new latitudes new lights open in the heaven more immediately over us.

Drive down any road, take a train or an airplane across the world, leave your old life behind, die and be born again~ wherever you arrive they'll be there first, glossy and rowdy and indistinguishable. The deep muscle of the world.

Why do people move? What makes them uproot and leave everything they've known for a great unknown beyond the horizon? ... The answer is the same the world over: people move in the hope of a better life.