Bernhard Schlink Quotes

I knew I had to stop running. I had to be in a place. Los Angeles became that place.

Oh, bird of my soul, fly away now, For I possess a hundred fortified towers.

I leave, and the leaving is so exhilarating I know I can never go back. But then what? Do I just keep leaving places, and leaving them, and leaving them, tramping a perpetual journey?

It’s not that you have to achieve anything, it’s that you have to get away from where you are.

Do not give back to his master a servant who has gone in flight from his master and come to you: let him go on living among you in whatever place is most pleasing to him.

Hey sky, take off your hat, I'm on my way!

… prepare in time an asylum for mankind.

A refuge for the oppressed from every land and clime.

Since I moved to American Top Team, I feel like I'm the bird that got to escape from its cage, if you know that meaning.

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

Aidan to Jude: What's wrong with running away if where you were didn't suit you? Doesn't it follow you're funning to something else? Something that does suit you?

To travel like a bird, lightly to view: Deserts where stone gods founder in the sand,: Ocean embraced in a white sleep with land;: To escape time, always to start anew...: Hooded by a dark sense of destination...: Travelers, we're fabric of the road we go; We settle, but like feathers on time's flow.

Reading dreams. That's what started her walking down the road. Every day she'd walk a little further: a mile, and come home. Two miles, and come home. One day she just kept on.

That’s the funny thing about arriving somewhere, Vin,” he said with a wink. “Once you’re there, the only thing you can really do is leave again.

I always felt like I was on the move, that I was going towards something.

America is the last great goal of these migrations.

I am a voyager - and the voyage cannot mean that I stay at home.

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

I feel a freedom when I start running. If I don't train, I feel like everyone else in the Gaza Strip.

It is hard to begin to move when you don't know where you are moving, how to move, or if you are going to get there.

One of the few luxuries left is travel. And the aspect of travel that is luxurious is not the movement, but the being there.

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.

If I'm free, it's because I'm always running.

The only thing I'm running for is the state line.

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.