Bjork Quotes

There is never any end... There are always new sounds to imagine; new feelings to get at. And always, there is the need to keep purifying these feelings and sounds so that we can really see what we've discovered in its pure state.

I always think it's interesting to dig a little bit deeper every time you go to someplace that seems like a revelation or a strong connection to an emotional truth.

To be lost is as legitimate a part of your process as being found.

This is going to sound pretentious and esoteric, but I truly mean it from the bottom of my heart. Acting has always been a spiritual journey for me. The very first project I ever acted on paralleled my experience so perfectly even before I was aware of it.

With a labyrinth, you make a choice to go in - and once you've chosen, around and around you go. But you always find your way to the center.

I am not solicitous to examine particularly everything here, which indeed could not be done in fifty years, because my desire is to make all possible discoveries, and return to your Highnesses, if it please our Lord, in April.

Mozart's music is like an X-ray of your soul - it shows what is there, and what isn't.

Captain Cook discovered Australia looking for the Terra Incognita. Christopher Columbus thought he was finding India but discovered America. History is full of events that happened because of an imaginary tale.

The greatest explorer on this earth never takes voyages as long as those of the man who descends to the depth of his heart.

Travel in all the four quarters of the earth, yet you will find nothing anywhere. Whatever there is, is only here.

I like to run in a new place to help me find my way around.

How much has to be explored and discarded before reaching the naked flesh of feeling.

Great storytellers in the past would go to an unknown land and return to tell the stories they've found. Those were also journeys into their inner psyches and that's still true today. An actor, a writer, does that as if saying, 'Here's what I've discovered about myself and about the world I'm in. I would like to share this with you.'

Some persons were to be sent in search of the river Missouri in order to discover whether it had any communication with the Pacific Ocean …

I've always been interested in exploration and the history of exploring the world, but it seems like we've found everything now.

When you play characters, you shouldn't just be putting on their characteristics - you should be finding it inside yourself.

Mapping, both literal and metaphorical, has always been about our quest for knowing.

There's no map for you to follow and take your journey. You are Lewis and Clark. You are the mapmaker.

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.

By walking, I found out where I was going.

The explorer is the person who is lost.

There comes no adventure but wears to our soul the shape of our everyday thoughts.

Whether or not you find your own way, you're bound to find some way. If you happen to find my way, please return it, as it was lost years ago. I imagine by now it's quite rusty.

There is no question that the language of "felt thought" must be quarried from our personal depths. Like the best gold, it does not lie on the surface.

It is true, we are such poor navigators that our thoughts, for the most part, stand off and on upon a harborless coast, are conversant only with the bights of the bays of poesy, or steer for the public ports of entry, and go into the dry docks of science, where they merely refit for this world, and no natural currents concur to individualize them.