Quotes About Directionless

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.

My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right?

Siempre había mariposeado, sin ningún objeto fijo.

By 1993, the Stone Roses had become this huge, beautiful cruise ship just floating about in the middle of nowhere with no captain.

We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.

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

I was wandering around like a lost soul, and then I saw that I was lost.

If she made eye contact now, she'd hear his samples, directionless and at just the right volume. Then more about DESH, and more samples. She had him here for company, though, and not for a lecture. But lectures were all there was to him, aside from his iconics, which were about being blond and fine-boned and wearing clothes more beautifully than any human ever could. He knew everything there was to know about music, and nothing else at all.

the moment, Rydell decided he knew for a fact his ass was lost. Just plain lost.

Living without anchors had its consequences. It was dangerously easy to drift.

I don't know how I'm supposed to feel. I don't know what to do.' For steps, it's like driving around New York with a map of Boston.

I was angry all the time about the future I didn't want with people I didn't like. But I didn't know what I wanted - so what else was there to do?

An aimless joy is a pure joy," I said, quoting Yeats.

America seemed insecure, violent, and wayward; and President Obama appeared detached and indecisive.

I can't be happy going out if it's not . . . going anywhere.

One fear creates a dereliction, the offense brings on a greater fear, and there comes a point where the fear is too great and the human spirit just gives up and a child wanders off numb and directionless and ends up following a crowd and watching a killing.

T]here comes a point where the fear is too great and the human spirit just gives up and a child wanders off numb and directionless and ends up following a crowd and watching a killing.

He no longer had a sense of up or down. One was always suspended, fighting against the current or giving in to it.

She is in a rut. That's the problem. These sandwiches are a symbol of a life that's going nowhere.

I lacked both community and purpose.

Parents, melody realized, were the linchpin of normality, even when they were far from normal themselves. Parents, even distracted, slightly ambivalent parents, acted as a kind of strainer through which life got poured. They were there, in essence, to catch the lumpy bits. Without a parent, life felt oblique and directionless. Without a parent, the world was too close for comfort

There were black mountains on which nothing, no grass or trees, seemed to grow. Thin lines that twisted unpredictably, with tributaries arriving nowhere. Not rivers, but roads.

I was adrift for a while. I worked as a substitute teacher; I sold cars.

All dash to and fro in motor cars. Familiar with the roads and settled nowhere.