Jo Nesbo Quotes

What is it in my makeup that makes me grab any offer and fly around the world? Will I ever be satisfied? Can't I ever just rest?

I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

Your people do not seem to like the place where they live and always want to be on the move going someplace else.

I never want to be satisfied.

Where ever I am I always find myself looking out the window wishing I was somewhere else.

He that is discontented in one place will seldom be happy in another.

I worry that if I enjoy something - like the songs on 'Some Nights' are about wondering about who you are. I'm never quite sure and I'd hate to feel sort of content and get a good sense of who I am because if I know one thing, that's not me. I don't mind not necessarily being happy about it. And that's fine.

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.

I haven't found anywhere in the world where I want to be all the time. The best of my life is the moving. I look forward to going.

I've never been one to stay still. I was born a nomad, and I still am a nomad and always will be.

The journey is my home.

There's no destination. The journey is all that there is, and it can be very, very joyful.

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.

My life is the road, man. I need to keep moving.

I certainly lead a different life from many people. I have a great life that I am thankful for, and I like travelling.

When I left the Seekers it was because I was unhappy. I wouldn't have left if I'd been happy.

I'm constantly trying to figure out my life and what's next. I'm never satisfied with what I have.

That's the thing with me: I'm never satisfied.

I'm not one to be satisfied.

On the Road that I have taken, one day walking I awaken, amazed to see where I've come, where I'm going, where I'm from.

Strong and content I travel the open road.

Travel. It was an intransitive verb. It didn't involve any destinations. It was going to the going's sake, to be anywhere but where you were, with motion itself as the only object.

Now more than ever do I realize that I will never be content with a sedentary life, that I will always be haunted by thoughts of a sun-drenched elsewhere.

Every change of place becomes a delight.

I don’t know why it is that I have always been happier thinking of somewhere I have been or wanted to go, than where I am at the time. I find it difficult to be happy in the present.