Adrift Quotes

48 quotes by 48 authors

The swimmer adrift on the open seas measures his strength, and strives with all his muscles to keep himself afloat. But what is he to… — Georges Duhamel
The vaporish cocaine loosens the contours of their lives and sets their bodies adrift, and so they are untouchable. — Jean Genet
What does it mean to be Catholic and not a Catholic? I feel adrift, homeless. My Catholic imagination allows me to see the soul as… — Julianna Baggott
The idea of some kind of objectively constant, universal literary value is seductive. It feels real. It feels like a stone cold fact that In… — Lev Grossman
Raising a daughter is an extremely political act in this culture. Mothers have been placed in a no-win situation with their daught ers: if they… — Elizabeth Debold
We do not choose to be born.We do not--most of us, choose to die, or the times or conditions of our death. But within all… — Joseph Epstein
About 95% of people can be compared to ships without rudders. Subject to every shift of wind and tide, they're helplessly adrift. And while they… — Earl Nightingale
I think, at heart, unless you discover faith in something else, something other, it's very hard to shake the thing that you're adrift alone. — Robert Smith
I was reduced to pure concept. My flesh had dissolved; my form had dissipated. I floated in space. Liberated of my corporeal being, but without… — Haruki Murakami
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 some are blacker… — Unknown Author
It is a very strange sensation to inexperience youth to feel itself quite alone the world, cut adrift from every connection, uncertain whether the port… — Charlotte Bronte
What we have in life that we can count on is who we are and where we come from, she thought absently. For better or… — Terry Brooks
In the darkest hour of winter, when the starlings had all flown away, Gretel Samuelson fell in love. It happened the way things are never… — Alice Hoffman
I have been only the humblest jugglers-with-facts; and that, in a country where the truth is what it is instructed to be, reality quite literally… — Salman Rushdie
Most humans were on one big island, to the fairies, and that island was adrift on a sea called I Totally Donâ€™t Care. — Charlaine Harris
He rocked in the swells, floating like the first germ of life adrift on the earth's cooling seas, formless macule of plasm trapped in a… — Cormac McCarthy
I was adrift in a sea of questions and if answers were lifeboats, I was in imminent danger of drowning. — Karen Marie Moning
She cried out into his kiss, her hands clawing his shoulders, adrift now in a pleasure that threatened to consume her. In her sexual lifetime… — Lora Leigh
listen to me as one listens to the rain, the years go by, the moments return, do you hear the footsteps in the next room?… — Octavio Paz
Either we are adrift in chaos or we are individuals, created, loved, upheld and placed purposefully, exactly where we are. Can you believe that? Can… — Elisabeth Elliot

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