Al Stewart Quotes

Why should I ask the wise men: Whence is my beginning? I am busy with the thought: Where will be my end?

Wherever I go, the club is never to stay on the same square on the board: they have to move up. I don't know if it's coincidence, some calling, or destiny - but whatever it is, it's the story of my life.

I always felt like something bigger was waiting for me out there.

Life drew me and I followed it.

Birth and death; we all move between these two unknowns.

I'll let life take me where it will.

Quest is at the heart of what I do-the holy grail, and the terror that you'll never find it, seemed a perfect metaphor for life.

You never know where history will lead you.

You don't know where life takes you.

I've been in so many crazy experiences in my life. I was always moving when I was a kid. When I look back, it's hard for me not to feel that certain things just happen for a reason.

Ever since happiness heard your name, it has been running through the streets trying to find you.

We the mortals touch the metals, the wind, the ocean shores, the stones, knowing they will go on, inert or burning, and I was discovering, naming all the these things: it was my destiny to love and say goodbye.

I am driven out of fatherlands and motherlands. Thus I now love only my children's land, yet undiscovered, in the farthest sea; for this I bid my sails search and search.

What will happen to us?" I asked. "There will always be us," he answered.

Even an empty road leads somewhere, right?

Neither death nor wisdom has a full stop. There are only commas-no destinations, only waiting rooms.

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

Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.

Well everybody in Casablanca has problems. Yours may work out.

The maid that loves goes out to sea upon a shattered plank, and puts her trust in miracles for safety.

Time is the king of all men, he is their parent and their grave, and gives them what he will and not what they crave.

Among all the vicissitudes of life, which vary in each individual's experience, there is one event which sooner or later comes to everyone - Death!

I have a rendezvous with life.

Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

I don't know where I'm really going to cha cha, but hopefully I can find a place.