Adrift Quotes

In a river mist, if another boat knocks against yours, you might yell at the other fellow to stay clear. But if you notice then, that it's an empty boat, adrift with nobody aboard, you stop yelling. When you discover that all the others are drifting boats, there's no one to yell at. And when you find out you are an empty boat, there's no one to yell.

To an intellectual who is adrift in politics, a theory is an aim; to a true politician his theory is a boundary

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 this realm of choicelessness, we do choose how we shall live--Courageously or in cowardice, Honorably or dishonorably, With purpose or adrift. We decide what is important and what is trivial. What makes us significant is what we DO, Or REFUSE TO DO. WE DECIDE and WE CHOOSE--and so we give definition to our lives.

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.

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.

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 you trust God for that?

You are adrift while you still think that a means is an end.

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 dispensation to go anywhere else.I was adrift in the void. Somewhere across the fine line separating nightmare from reality.

Without the eye, the head is blind. Without the head, the eye is adrift.

Literature is born when something in life goes slightly adrift.

Within this realm of choicelessness, we do choose how we live.

I was adrift in a sea of questions and if answers were lifeboats, I was in imminent danger of drowning.

The very concept of solid ground is a myth. The galaxy itself is adrift.

My mum used to work in New York in Spike Lee's shop, she did the outfits for the video for P.M. Dawn's "Set Adrift on Memory Bliss".

The vaporish cocaine loosens the contours of their lives and sets their bodies adrift, and so they are untouchable.

without music he felt aimless and adrift.

I find myself regarding existence as though from beyond the tomb, from another world; all is strange to me; I am, as it were, outside my own body and individuality; I am depersonalized, detached, cut adrift. Is this madness?

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 worse, that's what we have to sustain us in our endeavors, to buttress us in our darker moments, and to remind us of our identity. Without those things, we are adrift.

All of us are vulnerable, and at times we all feel adrift. But somehow, we all muddle through.

Some people think we're adrift without any guidelines. I don't. I think we've had instruction on how to live.