Drifting Quotes

193 quotes by 174 authors

When Janie looked out of her door she saw the drifting mists gathered in the west -- that cloud field of the sky -- to… — Zora Neale Hurston
Didn't you tie the mittens on her feet (Wednesday Evening's) extra special nice? Yes--she is an extra special nice pigeon. She cries for pity when… — Carl Sandburg
Now you see,' said the turtle, drifting back into the pond, 'why it is useless to cry. Your tears do not wash away your sorrows.… — Amy Tan
A person cannot coast along in old destructive habits year after year and accept whatever comes along. A person must stand up on her own… — Garrison Keillor
If you were drifting with a thousand other people, could you really still say you were lost? — Jodi Picoult
In spite of where we were, how we had gotten here and why we had come, I felt that at this moment of our lives,… — Dean Koontz
Pools of sorrow waves of joy are drifting thorough my open mind possessing and caressing m — John Lennon
I'm going to die with Alexander's hand on my face, Tatiana thought. That is not a bad way to die. I cannot move. I can't… — Paullina Simons
I stopped wanting to float away from my life, because in the end my life was all I had. I'd walk the Fairmont campus and… — Nick Burd
Thereâ€™s something very freeing about losing the anchors that have always defined you. Frightening, sad, but exhilarating in a poignant way, as well. Youâ€™re free… — Deborah Smith
The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything except our thinking. Thus, we are drifting toward catastrophe beyond conception. We shall require a substantially… — Albert Einstein
There were two now where they had been three. David's death had dismantled the triangle, and an enclosed space was now open. Two points are… — Kate Morton
The cats at the edge of the clearing were staring up at the sky, their eyes huge with fear. As he looked upward, Fireheart heard… — Erin Hunter
I felt alone on the planet, drifting through the cosmos. With both hands I reached out to the night. There was no answer. Or maybe… — Jerry Spinelli
No shame in saying that I felt a loneliness drifting through me. Funny how it was, everyone perched in their own little world with the… — Colum McCann
First, if it is true that a spatial order organizes an ensemble of possibilities (e.g., by a place in which one can move) and interdictions… — Michel de Certeau
We walked to meet each other up at the time of our love and then we have been irresistibly drifting in different directions, and there's… — Leo Tolstoy
The crying sounded even louder out of doors. It was as if all the pain in the world had found a voice. Yet had I… — H.G. Wells
Little solace comes to those who grieve when thoughts keep drifting as walls keep shifting and this great blue world of ours seems a house… — Mark Z. Danielewski
I wish I could close my eyes and be blown into dust and nothingness, feel all my thoughts disperse like dandelion fluff drifting off on… — Lauren Oliver

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174 authors contributed a total of 193 Drifting Quotes, led by these top contributors: