Literature is born when something in life goes slightly adrift. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
I think, at heart, unless you discover faith in something else, something other, it's very hard to shake the thing that you're… — Robert Smith Copy Share Image
I was adrift in a sea of questions and if answers were lifeboats, I was in imminent danger of drowning. — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
With spirit we are all children of the cosmos; Without it we are orphaned and adrift. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
To an intellectual who is adrift in politics, a theory is an aim; to a true politician his theory is a boundary — Francis Parker Yockey Copy Share Image
Just about a month from now I'm set adrift, with a diploma for a sail and lots of nerve for oars. — Richard Halliburton Copy Share Image
My mum used to work in New York in Spike Lee's shop; she did the outfits for the video for P.M. Dawn's… — King Krule Copy Share Image
Loneliness is only an opportunity to cut adrift and find yourself. In solitude you are least alone. — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
“The city pulses on around us, and I'm not sure which one of us is anchoring the others, but I've never felt… — Emma Mills Copy Share Image
What we have in life that we can count on is who we are and where we come from, she thought absently.… — Terry Brooks Copy Share Image
“I gazed up at the sky. I was in a tiny boat, on a vast ocean. No wind, no waves, just me… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I find myself regarding existence as though from beyond the tomb, from another world; all is strange to me; I am, as… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
A sign that a peace association is going adrift is its exclusion of other political parties, with whom it could collaborate effectively… — Fredrik Bajer Copy Share Image
Serious journalists often imagine society is adrift because people don't know certain things. Yet often, they know but just don't care. So… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Baseball players tend to have something like 20 good years in them and then around their mid-thirties they aren't in the same… — Michael Cera Copy Share Image
The swimmer adrift on the open seas measures his strength, and strives with all his muscles to keep himself afloat. But what… — Georges Duhamel Copy Share Image
“As we sit here, continents are adrift, like leaves on a pond. GPS tracking shows North America & Europe currently moving apart… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Since Israel would rather re-experience Masada than renounce the core Zionist objective of establishing a Jewish state, the only one-state "solution" on… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
Raising a daughter is an extremely political act in this culture. Mothers have been placed in a no-win situation with their daught… — Elizabeth Debold Copy Share Image
The idea of some kind of objectively constant, universal literary value is seductive. It feels real. It feels like a stone cold… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
“Who am I doing it for,' I asked him. It was a fairly rhetorical question and the only reply it warranted was… — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
“I am adrift. At 21, penniless in a world of plausible excuses, I am alone with my goals. These are difficult years,… — Morrissey Copy Share Image
How to check these unconstitutional invasions of rights by the Federal judiciary? Not by impeachment in the first instance, but by a… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
True individualists are always at odds with the universe. Set adrift by their peculiar tastes and interests, they spend their lives searching… — Rick Bayan Copy Share Image
listen to me as one listens to the rain, the years go by, the moments return, do you hear the footsteps in… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
“The last glow of sundown dims away. Stars appear in the east. Night encloses us. The ocean seems to enlarge. When you’re… — Carl Safina Copy Share Image
“White Sky. Trees fading at the skyline, the mountains gone. My hands dangled from the cuffs of my jacket as if they… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
Every movie, I find myself adrift at the beginning of the movie, and then I find my way through the dark forest. — Brad Bird Copy Share Image
“And he could go on in life, existing from day to day, without connection and without hope. For he did not know… — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“I'd be adrift without him, a dinghy in an ocean, but until I faced that lonely expanse, I'd never find land.” — C.D. Reiss Copy Share Image
Without the eye, the head is blind. Without the head, the eye is adrift. — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
“On getting lost in a book. Set adrift A life unknown Connections form Love is sewn” — Patty Wiseman Copy Share Image
Most humans were on one big island, to the fairies, and that island was adrift on a sea called I Totally Don’t… — Charlaine Harris Copy Share Image
