Adrift Quotes

48 Adrift quotes by 48 unique authors

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… — Bono
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 Don’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
without music he felt aimless and adrift. — Nicholas Sparks
Just about a month from now I'm set adrift, with a diploma for a sail and lots of nerve for oars. — Richard Halliburton
Without the eye, the head is blind. Without the head, the eye is adrift. — Walter Darby Bannard
I live in a Moomin house in East London which I fill with blankets and nice crockery and get people round for dinner. When you… — Bat for Lashes
What a magical thing is the bed, and what a vulnerable, innocent creature is the sleeping human - the human who never looks more truthful… — Michael Leunig
In this case it appealed to me partly because it felt close to me in some ways. This is about a confused, bewildered middle class… — Colin Firth
Novelists are no more moral or certain than anybody else; we are ideologically adrift, and if we are any good then our writing will live… — Andrew O'Hagan
Losing my parents really set me adrift in more ways than one. It's not just losing them. It's losing the possibility of family. — Walter Mosley

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