Adrift Quotes

“Just about a month from now I'm set adrift, with a diploma for a sail and lots of nerve for oars.”
― Richard Halliburton

“You don't have to be a graduate of Saint-Cyr to know that all wrecks end up on shore.”
― Henri Charrière, Papillon

“And he could go on in life, existing from day to day, without connection and without hope. For he did not know what to do with himself.”
― D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley’s Lover

“We are adrift, and the thinnest breeze may blow us where it will.”
― Rachel Hartman, Tess of the Road

“Like a small boat adrift in the fog, she caught glimpses during patches when the mist cleared of a world far away, in which everything was changing.”
― Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being

“Life becomes meaningful with a loving heart's gift
Upon the ocean of gratitude soul's boat adrift
Invisible expectancy tossed and turned
From the light of memories a blessed ray earned”
― Munia Khan

“As we sit here, continents are adrift, like leaves on a pond. GPS tracking shows North America & Europe currently moving apart at the same rate your fingernail grows, or about two yards in a human lifetime.”
― Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything

“Once adrift, you can go any direction”
― Erik Tanghe

“El reproche y la culpa solo sirven para aprisionarnos y para no dejarnos avanzar.”
― Miquel Reina, Luces en el Mar

“Living a self-indulgent lifestyle of a hedonistic without a grounding central purpose leads a person adrift in the slipstream of life. A person is bound to suffer unless they discern a meaning to existence and then strive in a passionate manner to fulfill their essential purpose.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“Yet as our North Bay strolls grew longer, sometimes wandering felt like pacing, adrift. I had no direction, only a romantic wish: to become a professional writer. But whatever terrain existed between my body and a body of work I might create seemed mysterious and vast, unknown. Most days, the sky was satin, markless blue. But below, fog hung like a suspended field of snow that never melted, the boundless dampness muting San Francisco’s lights. And the path to that summit of composing even one novel was invisible.”
― Aspen Matis, Your Blue Is Not My Blue: A Missing Person Memoir

“I think everything that happened in my life until now was by accident. I was never conscious. So many times I felt like when you are driving, and then you suffer temporary amnesia and you have no idea how you got there. Suddenly, I was here. I barely remember the way. Suddenly, I worked at this hospital. Suddenly, I lived in the suburbs. Suddenly, I was immersed in a million situations that I could not explain. Many like to think that we choose everything. This is an illusion. We do not choose where we are born, the house, the family, the name, the diseases, the intelligence and, the talent. So many things that are outside our zone of choice will influence our lives. To assume that we are on control is hypocrisy. Not that we do not have choices, we have them and we are responsible for them. But they are not an unlimited range. It is strange to analyze where I am today consciously. So I have often avoided doing so, I have preferred to ignore the hows and the whys.”
― S. Zuppardi, Não culpo as estrelas

“Macabéa for now is adrift in chaos like the door swinging in an infinite wind”
― Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star