Adrift Quote by Simone de Beauvoir

“Literature was not born the day when a boy crying “wolf, wolf” came running out of the Neanderthal valley with a big gray wolf…

— Stanislas Dehaene

Modern American literature was born in protest, born in rebellion, born out of the sense of loss and indirection which was imposed upon the…

— Alfred Kazin

It is the nature of the writer to question the validity of his world and yet rely on his senses to describe it. From…

— Jeff VanderMeer

“All interesting literature is born in that moment when you are not sure if you are in one place with one culture,” Ms. Tawada…

— Anonymous

Literature was not born the day when a boy crying "wolf, wolf" came running out of the Neanderthal valley with a big gray wolf…

— Vladimir Nabokov

Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.

— Simone de Beauvoir

“Driving home after her first night course at San Francisco State University, Iris was adrift in the darkness. She rarely travelled this far south…

— Rick Mofina

“Be for once a white boat adrift, in debt to no lighthouse.”

— Robin Hyde

How to check these unconstitutional invasions of rights by the Federal judiciary? Not by impeachment in the first instance, but by a strong protestation…

— Thomas Jefferson

I find myself regarding existence as though from beyond the tomb, from another world; all is strange to me; I am, as it were,…

— Henri Frederic Amiel

Tell us what it is to be a woman so that we may know what it is to be a man. What moves at…

— Toni Morrison

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

And loneliness. I should say something of loneliness. The panic, the sweeping hysteria that comes not when you are without others, but when you…

— Hilary Thayer Hamann

And if I can't be with you I would rather have a different face And if I can't be near you I would rather…

— Neil Finn

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…

— Earl Nightingale