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Quotes About Adrift

With each passing sunset, our hope grows depleted, and we no longer feel like passengers of anything. We are souls adrift.
~ Mitch Albom
Remember the unmoored boat floats about.
~ Murasaki Shikibu
Most humans were on one big island, to the fairies, and that island was adrift on a sea called I Totally Don't Care.
~ Charlaine Harris
a la deriva.
~ Isaac Asimov
An infinite, inscrutable blackness has annihilated sight! Where is our universe? All crumbled away from us; and we, adrift in chaos, may hearken to the gusts of homeless wind, that go sighing and murmuring about in quest of what was once a world!
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
The jellyfish doesn't actively move anywhere - it's just moved with the tides. Is that what man is? Man's just the jellyfish: stuff happens to you, and you get twisted in different directions.
~ Andrew Buchan
he returned to his barricaded silence, locking me out of his world. The unfathomable, inscrutable East, I thought. I was cut adrift from the shores of understanding. The sea spread itself before me, leading to a blank, blank horizon.
~ Tash Aw
We'd been adrift for eight days when the ninny tried to eat the monkey.
~ Christopher Moore
Adrift upon the sea of time, the lonely god wanders from shore to distant shore, upholding the laws of the stars above.
~ Christopher Paolini
He hated this feeling of free-floating, just drifting from place to place, thought to thought, without any sense of anchor or root.
~ Nora Roberts
There's danger in feeling," Tess murmured. Although she could not begin to imagine what kind of pain Dante carried within him, she felt a kinship growing between them. Both alone, both adrift in their worlds. "I don't want to feel anything for you, Dante." "God, Tess. I don't want to feel anything for you either.
~ Lara Adrian
She felt lost, adrift in a sea of uncertainty, alone on a ship that she didn't know how to sail, knowing only that there were no charts, and no land in sight.
~ Cynthia Harrod-Eagles
How would you know she is a ghost? Many of the living are vague and adrift too, it's not a failing unique to the departed.
~ Damon Galgut
Ted Kennedy says that our policy in Iraq is adrift. Hmmm. Maybe like a car adrift in the water after its has gone over a bridge?
~ Ann Coulter
Those in their snug Bed-chambers may call the Fears of Night meer Bugbears, but their Minds have not pierced into the Horror of the World which others, who are adrift upon it, know.
~ Peter Ackroyd
Then: "Yup. We're definitely lost.
~ Unknown
I felt adrift, anchorless in a running sea. This is now my home.
~ Diana Gabaldon
How would you know she is a ghost? Many of the living are vague and adrift too, it's not a failing unique to the departed.
~ Damon Galgut
I think it should be evident by now, but I'm as lost as anyone.
~ Paul Westerberg
I've always been kind of lost.
~ Fala Chen
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...
~ Donna Tartt
The very concept of solid ground is a myth. The galaxy itself is adrift.
~ Luke Davies
This person is now lost to her for ever. She is someone adrift in her life, who doesn't recognise it. She is unmoored, at a loss. She is someone who weeps if she cannot find a shoe or overboils the soup or trips over a pot. Small things undo her. Nothing is certain any more.
~ Maggie O'Farrell
She is someone adrift in her life, who doesn't recognise it. She is unmoored, at a loss. She is someone who weeps if she cannot find a shoe or overboils the soup or trips over a pot. Small things undo her. Nothing is certain any more.
~ Maggie O'Farrell