Quotes About Directionless

In fact you have been as if your arms were tied, without knowing what to do. It appears that you are no better than a wooden image." —The Emperor telling Lin Zexu why he was firing him

They move about listlessly and apparently without much purpose; they might just as well be lunatics.

When I came out to Hollywood, I was a crazy young kid who didn't have a lot of direction.

Broken lines do not know what they want. With their caprices they cut time up, abuse routes, slash the joyous flowers and split the peaceful fruits with their corners.

He flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions.

I have to say to the Government that you are not even getting nowhere fast - you are getting nowhere slowly.

They were, of course, hopelessly lost.

You talk like a drunk man walks: in every direction but where he be headed.

How easy it was to drift through an unchosen life, in a succession of reactions to events. He

Some people go nowhere, even into disputes, without a soundtrack.

I wanted to leave home, and I didn't know where I was going or what I was going to do or what would happen. That's youth, though. Being fixated on things. I was fixated on being a writer.

Behind me there are already so many memories (...) Lots of memories, but no point in remembering them, and ahead of me a long, long road with nothing to aim for ... I just don't want to go along it.

Women all want to be ladies, which is simply to have nothing to do, but listlessly to go they scarcely care where, for they cannot tell what.

The people are that part of the state that does not know what it wants.

You don't want to take over the universe. You wouldn't know what to do with it beyond shout at it.

I'm living on a one-way, dead-end street. I don't know how I got there.

Like a car idling, I gave of my energy until there was nothing more in my tank to give... all the while going nowhere.

All he knows is that something stepped in front of him, blocking his way, until in time he gave up on things, he gave up studying engineering and he gave up on the idea of traveling. He sat down in his life. And there he remained.

Remember the unmoored boat floats about.

Sve je besciljno na mome putu kroz oblake. Stid me je što me postojani mjesec uop?e gleda.

The world's very small when you don't have anywhere to go.

But the thing about maybes is that you can get lost in them and end up going nowhere.

a la deriva.

I don't know where I am. My mind races. I feel like if I started to run, I'd never stop.