Andrea Riseborough Quotes

I needed to run away in order to come home.

Enlightenment is not something you achieve. It is the absence of something. All your life you have been going forward after something, pursuing some goal. Enlightenment is dropping all that.

Sometimes you have to step away from what you love in order to learn how to love it again.

I always need to get away from whatever it is I've just finished, to feel a distance from it.

I feel a frantic desire to free myself. To start all over again and in another way.

...you have to leave the island in order to see the island, that we can't see ourselves unless we become free of ourselves, Unless we escape from ourselves you mean, No, that's not the same thing.

I've been able to carve out spaces for myself. At Sundance, I'm in the mountains - my property is private. I get on a horse and ride for three, four hours. Sometimes five. I get lost. But when I'm in, I'm in.

I've always found a cure for the blues is wandering into something unknown, and resting there, before coming back to whatever weight you were carrying.

Reading Poe was like a near-death experience, the kind that makes you feel fragile and free in its wake. I felt almost as though I'd scared myself alive.

By taking to the road, we free ourselves of baggage, both physical and psychological. We walk back to our original condition, to our best selves.

What pride to discover that nothing belongs to you - what a revelation.

Only the hand that erases can write the true thing.

Going out there in the water, it feels as if there's nothing wrong with me.

When you are not missing something, longing for something, you don't really think about it that much. It's like that girlfriend you don't want to have anymore. You don't think about her anymore. Or ex-husband. You just don't.

All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.

Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.

I had looked forward so eagerly to leaving the horrible place, yet when my release came and I knew that God's sunlight was to be free for me again, there was a certain pain in leaving.

The fact is that you don't want to be away forever, but you want to lead a normal life.

Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction: absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer.

I've left Bethlehem, and I feel free. I've left the girl I was supposed to be, and some day I'll be born.

There is not a man among them who would not leave if they believed they could make their escape … Liberty is sweet.

The happiest time in any man’s life is just after his first divorce.

We don't realize how much we need something until it's taken away from us.

You can miss someone every day and still be glad you don't have to see them.

It certainly was an important moment for me, that realization that I was not going to get what I wanted. It was very freeing. I keep using that word "freeing" or "liberating." I feel like Houdini sometimes, like I'm just getting out of one set of shackles after another, hanging upside down inside a burlap bag with handcuffs on. Hopefully one day, I'm going to get out of this tank of water.