“If you came back, you wanted to leave again; if you went away, you longed to come back. Wherever you were, you could hear the call of the homeland, like the note of the herdsman's horn far away in the hills. You had one home out there and one over here, and yet you were an alien in both places. Your true abiding place was the vision of something very far off, and your soul was like the waves, always restless, forever in motion.”
Quotes by Johan Bojer
Johan BojerJohan Bojer was a prominent Norwegian novelist and dramatist known for his poignant depictions of the struggles faced by poor farmers and fishermen. Born in 1872, he drew inspiration from the rural la...