Aimless Quotes

75 quotes by 70 authors

If we would only give, just once, the same amount of reflection to what we want to get out of life that we give to… — Dorothy Canfield Fisher
The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate. — O. Henry
The point of mythology or myth is to point to the horizon and to point back to ourselves: This is who we are; this is… — J. Michael Straczynski
While we pay lip service to the virtues of reading, the truth is that there is still in our culture something that suspects those who… — Anna Quindlen
Let's enjoy the aimless days while we still can. — Don DeLillo
A man has no reason to be ashamed of having an ape for his grandfather. If there were an ancestor whom I should feel shame… — Thomas Huxley
Adults forget the depths of languor into which the adolescent mind decends with ease. They are prone to undervalue the mental growth that occurs during… — E. O. Wilson
Nowadays, her life is more like a newspaper: aimless, up-to-date and full of meaningless events — Michel Faber
Deep within the individual is a vast reservoir of untapped power awaiting to be used. no person can have the use of all this potential… — Norman Vincent Peale
But my dreaming self refuses to be consoled. It continues to wander, aimless, homeless, alone. It cannot be convinced of its safety by any evidence… — Margaret Atwood
Her mind traveled crooked streets and aimless goat paths, arriving sometimes at profundity, other times at the revelations of a three-year-old. Throughout this fresh, if… — Toni Morrison
Aimless extension of knowledge, however, which is what I think you really mean by the term curiosity, is merely inefficiency. I am designed to avoid… — Isaac Asimov
I was going to say he's aimless," the witch replied. "I know he's a bit old to be old to living at home with his… — Michael Buckley
you feel a little bit lost right now about what to do with your life, a bit rudderless and oarless and aimless but that's okay… — David Nicholls
There was one of his lonelinesses coming, one of those times when he walked the streets or sat, aimless and depressed, biting a pencil at… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Home is a place in the mind. When it is empty, it frets. It is fretful with memory, faces and places and times gone by.… — Maeve Brennan
The white people were as thick and numerous and aimless as grasshoppers, moving always in a hurry but never seeming to get to whatever place… — Dee Brown
Far away, our dreams have nothing to do with what we do. The wind carries the night, and passes on, aimless. — Mahmoud Darwish
He had married (as most young men did) because he had met a perfectly charming girl at the moment when a series of rather aimless… — Edith Wharton
When love flies it is remembered not as love but as something else. Blessed are the uneducated, who forget it entirely, and are never conscious… — E. M. Forster

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