Astray Quotes

Searching for precious goods leads astray.

— Laozi

“The hasty stroke oft goes astray.”

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“Every way Leads but astray,”

— Sophocles

“It is the very mind itself that leads the mind astray.”

— Yagyu Munenori

Passion without focus can lead you astray.

— Ken Auletta

[George W.] Bush was led astray and we were led astray.

— Nat Hentoff

To beguile is to deceive or lead astray, as Lucifer beguiled Eve in the Garden of Eden.

— Joseph B. Wirthlin

“He whose (desires) are few gets them; he whose (desires) are many goes astray.”

— Lao Tzu

It's easy to be led astray when you're so broken. People take advantage of you.

— Willie Aames

“Truth I pursued,as Fancy sketch'd the way, And wiser men than I went worse astray.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“The damage love does when love goes astray. And did it ever, given half a chance, fail to wander?”

— Paul Russell

Who walks the fastest, but walks astray, is only furthest from his way.

— Matthew Prior

“I’ve gone astray. It’s better to cook with a stray than eat your own cat.”

— Jarod Kintz

“If you lead me astray, then my wanderings will bring me to my destination.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

“That was always my fear, that perhaps books would lead me astray, teaching me about a life that didn’t match reality.”

— Stefanos Livos

Though One Brahman is the Cause of the Many. ... Behold but One in all things it is the second that leads…

— Kabir

“There are times when the understanding does not come until later, when it no longer matters. Other times I do what I…

— Haruki Murakami

I am in truth the Steppenwolf that I often call myself; that beast astray that finds neither home nor joy nor nourishment…

— Hermann Hesse

“We often go astray, seeking our own way, until the the sacred moment of suffering, then we find grace to cry out…

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Of course I shall go astray often...for who does not make mistakes? But I cannot go far wrong for I have seen…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

What leads us astray is confusing more choices with more control. Because it is not clear that the more choices you have…

— Sheena Iyengar

Many books serve merely to show how many ways there are of being wrong, and how far astray you yourself would go…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

I love to direct! I get really jazzed by directing, but directing is not the same kind of personal expression, the same…

— Alan Ball

When I decided that I wanted to go to college, I wanted to be a school teacher for 7th and 8th grade…

— Bill Cosby

“A man who saw has turned blind, A hearer deaf, A leader now leads astray!”

— Miriam Lichtheim

Whenever I have tried to do anything For Money it has always led me astray.

— Nancy Spain

The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.

— Oscar Wilde

“Lead me!” I told him fervently. “Astray is, like, my favourite place ever.”

— J.L. Merrow

I don't think things will lead me astray, as long as I'm tapped into myself.

— Ashton Sanders

“To reach something good, it is useful to have gone astray.”

— St. Teresa of Avila

“Better to ask the way than go astray.”

— Kore Yamazaki

“A sheep without a shepherd, go astray.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“Noboby is succeeded by going astray from Allah”

— Salman Farooqi

Faith in faith is faith astray.

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

You make me do wrong, you make me do right I'm going astray, I've got to see the light.

— Sugar Minott

“And if you’re too afraid of goin’ astray, you won’t go anywhere.”

— Anonymous

“Magellan's thirst for glory, under cover of religious zeal, led him fatally astray.”

— Laurence Bergreen

“We rarely find people who achieve great things without first going astray.”

— Meister Eckhart

Midway in our life's journey, I went astray from the straight road and woke to find myself alone in a dark wood.

— Dante Alighieri

Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest.

— Voltaire