Quotes About Directionless

The fixed is the world without fire- dead flint, dead tinder, and nowhere a spark. It is motion without direction, force without power, the aimless procession of caterpillars round the rim of a vase, and I hate it because at any moment I myself might step to that charmed and glistening thread.

Tod Donald rarely did anything voluntarily, or with planning, or even with intent acknowledged to himself; he found himself doing one thing, and then he found himself doing another, and that, as he saw it, was the way one lived along, never deciding, never helping.

But she knew that she still had no plan in life, save always to go along the same streets, past the same people, to the same shops.

Have you ever shaken up a compass and see the arrow whirling around, trying to find a place to settle? Well, that's my brain. It's all over the place.

To be alive is to be dizzy and not to know exactly where to go.

I don't know what to do with my future.

Kate has no job, nor does she pursue an interest; she cannot develop. Her life is as circular as the novel it defines.

We walk towards nowhere, one foot in front of the other.

To me, nothing feels more like being dead than being in your 20s and having no direction in your life.

A mind that is unfocused is vulnerable to "the world, the flesh, and the devil," all of which exert a downward pull on your thoughts. As your thinking processes deteriorate, you become increasingly confused and directionless.

A mind that is unfocused is vulnerable to "the world, the flesh, and the devil," all of which exert a downward pull on your thoughts. As your thinking processes deteriorate, you become increasingly confused and directionless. The best remedy is to refocus your mind and heart on Me, your constant Companion.

I'm twenty years old and look at me-- there isn't a thing I want to do

He walked out of nowhere toward nowhere, a man from another time who, it seemed, had reached a point of pointless ending.

I walked with nowhere particular to go, and nowhere I had to be.

There is nothing sadder than sitting in a car and having absolutely nowhere to go.

hombre de hoy no sabe a dónde va, y esto quiere decir que está perdido, sin rumbo, desorientado. Tenemos dos exponentes claros al respecto: en los jóvenes, la droga, y en los adultos, las rupturas conyugales.

There's a kind of emptiness at the center of life ... nothing to form your life on, or by.

There are too many people coming out of school and heading into a life of nothing. They go straight on the dole or into crime.

They used to rush through here, it was the hurry of men who knew where they were going and were eager to get there. Now they're hurrying because they are afraid. It's not a purpose that drives them, it's fear. They're not going anywhere, they're escaping. And I don't think they know what it is that they want to escape.

The war's [World War II] end has left America with loads of get-up-and-go, and no place to go.

He flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions.

O homem-massa é o homem cuja vida carece de projetos e anda à deriva. Por isso não constrói nada, ainda que suas possibilidades, seus poderes, sejam enormes.

In my 20s and early 30s, I was very much a man lost at sea, with very little direction in life, and painfully immature.

Léon était las d'aimer sans résultat ; puis il commençait à sentir cet accablement que vous cause la répétition de la même vie, lorsque aucun intérêt ne la dirige et qu'aucune espérance ne la soutient.