Quotes About Adrift

I kind of feel like a boat that's lost its anchor, you know? I'm just drifting away.

Do I want you to write to me? Indeed I do.... The others break my heart, but you will not. You a something divine in you that is not in other men. You have the touch that heals, not lacerates. And you know the secret places of our hearts... You have seen our whole voyage... [Y]ou see us not, chartless, adrift - derelicts.

I came up with this really crazy idea, this really small personal story that takes place in a universe that we are familiar with. Rocky is retired, kind of set adrift. He's very lonely in his world. His life has gone by waiting for the inevitable. It's not 'Rocky 7.'

I never got used to the way the horizon there could just erase itself and leave you marooned, adrift, in an incomplete dreamscape that was like a sketch for the world you knew, in an amnesia-land, a kind of skewed Heaven where the old landmarks were recognizable but spaced too far apart, and disarranged, and made terrible by the emptiness around them.

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

I was one of those people who just flitted about in life. I had no plans and no sense of direction.

Driving home after her first night course at San Francisco State University, Iris was adrift in the darkness. She rarely travelled this far south in the city.

Se sentía perdido.

For the first time in my adult life I feel . . . lost.

He was carried along as easily as a shell in a wave.

Drawing the desperate and the adrift, Los Angeles has long been the dumping ground of dreams both real and cinematic.

He feels ennui depression adrift in his life. Purposeless, perhaps because —dig a well in the Sudan and thejanjaweed come in and shoot the people anyway —buy mosquito nets and the boys you save grow up to —rape women —set up cottage industries in Myanmar and the army —steals them and uses the women as slaves and Ben is starting to be afraid that he is starting to share Chon's opinion of the human species that people are basically shit.

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.

Life is all about finding your place. All of us are vulnerable, and at times we all feel adrift. But somehow, we all muddle through. He'll be fine. Like the rest of us. We just need some faith.

How easy it is to feel paralyzed by obligations. How easy it is to feel lost and insignificant and unable to know what is best, to feel adrift while yearning for purpose.

A few were men and women of quality. But many were losers: a motley collection of self-aggrandizing utopians and mushy-headed sentimentalists, adrift in the drama of their lives.

I think we're programmed for hardship. In my experience, human beings are happiest when they're working themselves to the bone. People are more likely to feel adrift and unsatisfied when they have too much leisure time. Obstacles are good.

Cuando se ha perdido la brújula, lo inmediato es navegar a la deriva, no saber a qué atenerse en temas clave de la vida, lo que le conduce a la aceptación y canonización de todo.

To be brilliant is not a matter of being right more often than the next fellow...It is in large part a matter of holding firm to convictions as long as possible, but not a moment longer. The brilliant man must trust he is always right even when adrift alone with his conviction.

So often, when we feel lost, adrift in our lives, our first instinct is to look out into the distance to find the nearest shore. But that shore, that solid ground, is within us. The anchor we are searching for is connection, and it is internal. To form meaningful connections with others, we must first connect with ourselves,

Two buttons had come adrift on her shirt, meaning she was showing more cleavage than was normal for an officer of the law. I don't know if she had children, or planned to, but they would never starve.

They were, of course, hopelessly lost.

I wasn't really living anywhere... I was just kinda hanging out. I would live from week to week in places.

He was like a spirit cut free from reality. He was adrift, helpless, insubstantial.