Jim Jarmusch Quotes

If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.

I'm not lost, because I haven't any idea where to go that I might get lost on the way to. I'd like to get lost, because then I'd know where I was going, you see.

There is a goal but no way; what we call the way is mere wavering.

I have never seen a man lost who was on a straight path.

Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?" "That depends a good deal on where you want to get to." "I don't much care where –" "Then it doesn't matter which way you go.

I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks.

I lost my way for a long time.

I know one thing for certain; it is much harder to tell whether you are lost than whether you were lost, for, on many occasions, where you are going is exactly where you are. On the other hand, if you often find that where you've been is not at all where you should have gone, and, since it's much more difficult to find your way back from someplace you've never left, I suggest you go there immediately and then decide.

If you don't know where you're going, it doesn't matter if your alarm doesn't go off in the morning.

There is no fair wind for one who knows not whither he is bound.

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.

We are asleep with compasses in our hands.

We're lost, but we're making good time.

If you don't know what port you are sailing to, no wind is favourable.

Someone ... tell us what's important, because we no longer know.

If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.

Took me a while to get to the point today, but that is because I did not know what the point was when I started.

We're right here on this very spot. Besides, being lost is never a matter of not knowing where you are; it's a matter of not knowing where you aren't - and I don't care at all about where I'm not.

I know where I'm going. And if I don't know where I'm going, I don't tend to get anywhere.

To the person who does not know where he wants to go there is no favorable wind.

One never goes so far as when one doesn't know where one is going.

If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.

I was kind of lost for several years.

The world's a forest, in which all lose their way; though by a different path each goes astray.

There's just no vision. You have no ground, no vision.