You won't find a new country, won't find another shore. This city will always pursue you. You'll walk the same streets, grow old in the same neighbourhoods, turn grey in these same houses. You'll always end up in this city. Don't hope for things elsewhere: there's no ship for you, there's no road. Now that you've wasted your life here, in this small corner, you've destroyed it everywhere in the world.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Escaping your current life or location is impossible because your internal struggles follow you.
- In plain terms
- You cannot escape yourself by moving to a new place.
- What can you take from it?
- Confront your issues now rather than hoping a change of scenery fixes them.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- What are you trying to run from?
- Have you wasted time hoping a new place would fix old problems?
Another view
Sometimes a change of environment genuinely helps reset a person.
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