An objective is an ambition, and life without ambition is…

To the Taoist mentality, the aimless, empty life does not suggest anything depressing. On the contrary, it suggests the freedom of clouds and mountain…

— Alan Watts

Vigorous societies harbor a certain extravagance of objectives, so that men wander beyond the safe provision of personal gratifications.

— Alfred North Whitehead

Far away, our dreams have nothing to do with what we do. The wind carries the night, and passes on, aimless.

— Mahmoud Darwish

The white people were as thick and numerous and aimless as grasshoppers, moving always in a hurry but never seeming to get to whatever…

— Dee Brown

Intelligence in isolation turns to aimless marauding.

— Mason Cooley

It's funny how aimless a person can feel at times, even when they know God is in control.

— Chris Fabry

Aimless person is a shameless person.

— Anonymous

“[ Responding to the Bishop of Oxford, Samuel Wilberforce's question whether he traced his descent from an ape on his mother's or his father's…

— Thomas Huxley

We all know them — the unstructured person whose every action seems aimless and the totally organized person whose every action defeats some purpose.

— Robert Breault

Even aimless journeys have a purpose.

— Tony Horwitz

I was going to say he's aimless," the witch replied. "I know he's a bit old to be old to living at home with…

— Michael Buckley

Aimless drifting also fulfills an intention.

— Mason Cooley

“To be useful was the best thing the old men ever hoped for themselves, and to be aimless was their worst fear”

— Marilynne Robinson

“As the crow flies. That’s how she liked to walk. So what if she had nowhere to go? So what if no one on…

— Francine Pascal

The ellipse is as aimless as that, Stretching invisibly into the future so as to reappear In our present. Its flexing is its account,…

— John Ashbery