Literature is born when something in life goes slightly adrift. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
All of us are vulnerable, and at times we all feel adrift. But somehow, we all muddle through. — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
The vaporish cocaine loosens the contours of their lives and sets their bodies adrift, and so they are untouchable. — Jean Genet Copy Share Image
Losing my parents really set me adrift in more ways than one. It's not just losing them. It's losing the possibility of… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
“Adrift upon the sea of time, the lonely god wanders from shore to distant shore, upholding the laws of the stars above.” — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
Some people think we're adrift without any guidelines. I don't. I think we've had instruction on how to live. — Jon Voight Copy Share Image
I don't think goodness is something that you learn. If you're left adrift in the world to learn goodness from it, you… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
When a man cuts himself absolutely adrift from custom, what an astonishingly light spar floats him! How few his wants are, after… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
Ted Kennedy says that our policy in Iraq is adrift. Hmmm. Maybe like a car adrift in the water after its has… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
“Ever since I woke up in Faerie, I had felt sort of adrift between the two worlds. Seeing him was like finding… — Karen Lynch Copy Share Image
Men are beginning to realize that they are not individuals but persons in society, that man alone is weak and adrift, that… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
Either we are adrift in chaos or we are individuals, created, loved, upheld and placed purposefully, exactly where we are. Can you… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
Either order in the cosmos is real, or all is chaos. If we are adrift in chaos, then the fragile egalitarian doctrines… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
Children find themselves adrift not because the informational signposts are illegible, but because there is no one around to guide and accompany… — Greg Boyle Copy Share Image
The raw materials of reality without the glue of time are materials adrift and reality is as meaningless as the balsa parts… — Ken Kesey Copy Share Image
Modern humanity's sense of alienation lies in the fact that we have cut ourselves adrift from both the natural world and from… — Philip Carr-Gomm Copy Share Image
“Adrift and unmoored, she had tried again and again to throw him a rope to save him from the raging waters. And… — Tiffany Reisz Copy Share Image
You don't become an 'artist' unless you've got something missing somewhere. Blaise Pascal called it a God-shaped hole. Everyone's got one but… — Bono Copy Share Image
The trouble with God isn't that He so seldom makes Himself known to us... He's holding you and me and everybody else… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
It is a very strange sensation to inexperience youth to feel itself quite alone the world, cut adrift from every connection, uncertain… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“The greatest missile in the world is useless...unless it's targeted. A torpedo is adrift unless it has someplace to go. An arrow… — Tim Allen Copy Share Image
I have been only the humblest jugglers-with-facts; and that, in a country where the truth is what it is instructed to be,… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
[Our goal] is to help revive America's traditional values: faith, family, neighborhood, work and freedom. Government has no business enforcing these values… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
In a river mist, if another boat knocks against yours, you might yell at the other fellow to stay clear. But if… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
No legal ceremony--no election of the woman--no penalty for the perfidy of the man--no law to compel him to do his duty,… — Victoria Woodhull 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
“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
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
I was adrift for a while. I worked as a substitute teacher; I sold cars. — Ed O'Neill Copy Share Image
“They cut the umbilical cord, give you a slap on the ass, and presto! you're out in the world, adrift, a ship… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“There was absolutely no choice but to cut her adrift and hope her memory was fucked.” — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“Adrift in a sea of madness, the sextant is broken, but I can still see the stars.” — Jack G. Bowman Copy Share Image
The very concept of solid ground is a myth. The galaxy itself is adrift. — Luke Davies Copy Share Image