Unsettledness Quotes

There was no time when I lived anywhere longer than two years. I was always a social outcast. Maybe I didn't care what people thought because I was like, 'Well, I probably won't stick around here for too long.'

There is no point in asking me general questions because I am always changing my mind.

While I don't know if I exist in the land of the elite, I'm definitely on the battlefield with restlessness.

I lived with uncertainty.

I can't live just being content. I can't have a routine. I can't be settled because then I just get really frustrated.

It's hard for me to sit still in one place. I like to move around.

Growing up, I never really felt like anything was my own. I moved a lot, and I never belonged anywhere.

Always being the outsider, you... feel comfortable everywhere, but you don't really feel at home anywhere. I definitely draw comedy from that.

I moved schools seven or eight times, but I never thought of it as a problem. I didn't become attached to people.

It's rough to go through life with your contents looking as if they settled during shipping.

The worst feeling in the world is the homesickness that comes over a man occasionally when he is at home.

It's kind of hard when you're on the road all the time, from one show to the next, from one hotel room to the next hotel room, it's kind of hard to think about everything.

It is about this very abstract sense of displacement that he feels the moment he turns off the television.

I've very aware of my rootlessness.

Many writers today are wanderers. There is not only an unhousedness in language - how to convey, to say nothing of converge - but an unhousedness of place.

I hate sitting still.

I change my mind quite a lot about things, which isn't always a good thing.

I can never be in the same place for too long. It feels like the world is caving in.

Sometimes I feel very alone. I am a bit of a nomad. Many people in sort of emerging countries, emerging economies, find themselves displaced. So there is that sense, and so I'm part of a whole, I think, group of displaced people.

I've never spent a whole year in one place without leaving.

I think right now in the world we're feeling like there's no solid ground beneath our feet, you know?

When I left home, I was going to ride around a little while and then go to my mom's. As I rode and rode and rode, I felt even more anxiety coming upon me about not wanting to live.

Man hath still either toys or care: But hath no root, nor to one place is tied, but ever restless and irregular, about this earth doth run and ride. He knows he hath a home, but scarce knows where; He says it is so far, that he has quite forgot how to go there.

Men give up one thing to take up another, but in spite of numerous changes they do not find peace. They are no better than monkeys who let go one bough to take hold of another, only to let it go again.

Sometimes people ask, 'Does writing make you happy?' But I think that's beside the point. It makes you agitated, and continually in a state where you're off balance. You seldom feel serene or settled.