Adrift Quotes

• Just about a month from now I'm set adrift, with a diploma for a sail and lots of nerve for oars.

  Richard Halliburton

  Graduation, Senior, Memorable

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• The swimmer adrift on the open seas measures his strength, and strives with all his muscles to keep himself afloat. But what is he to do when there is no land on the horizon, and none beyond it?

  Georges Duhamel

  Sea, Land, Horizon

  Georges Duhamel (1918). “The New Book of Martyrs: From the French of Georges Duhamel”

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• A sign that a peace association is going adrift is its exclusion of other political parties, with whom it could collaborate effectively on most of the problems besetting the cause of peace.

  Fredrik Bajer

  Party, Political, Literature

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

  Francis Parker Yockey

  Intellectual, Politics, Politician

  Francis Parker Yockey (2013). “Imperium: The Philosophy of History and Politics”, p.283, The Palingenesis Project (Wermod and Wermod Publishing Group)

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• Men are beginning to realize that they are not individuals but persons in society, that man alone is weak and adrift, that he must seek strength in common action.

  Dorothy Day

  Strength, Men, Society

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• Losing my parents really set me adrift in more ways than one. It's not just losing them. It's losing the possibility of family.

  Walter Mosley

  Parent, Way, Losing

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• Loneliness is only an opportunity to cut adrift and find yourself. In solitude you are least alone.

  Bruce Lee

  Loneliness, Cutting, Opportunity

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.101, Tuttle Publishing

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• I was reduced to pure concept. My flesh had dissolved; my form had dissipated. I floated in space. Liberated of my corporeal being, but without dispensation to go anywhere else.I was adrift in the void. Somewhere across the fine line separating nightmare from reality.

  Haruki Murakami

  Reality, Space, Lines

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Sep 15, 2014

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• The very concept of solid ground is a myth. The galaxy itself is adrift.

  Luke Davies

  Myth, Galaxy, Concepts

  Luke Davies (2002). “Isabelle the Navigator”, p.7, Penguin

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• True individualists are always at odds with the universe. Set adrift by their peculiar tastes and interests, they spend their lives searching for kindred spirits and a compatible mate. They are hopelessly out of step with the business world and its trivial urgencies. Their priorities are not the priorities of their neighbors. They are unique; therefore they are alone.

  Rick Bayan

  Unique, Odds, Priorities

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• Without the eye, the head is blind. Without the head, the eye is adrift.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Eye, Vision, Blind

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• All of us are vulnerable, and at times we all feel adrift. But somehow, we all muddle through.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Vulnerable, Feels, Muddle

  "Author Spotlight: Kevin J. Anderson & Sherrilyn Kenyon". Interview with Liz Argall, www.lightspeedmagazine.com. August 2016.

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• The raw materials of reality without the glue of time are materials adrift and reality is as meaningless as the balsa parts of a model airplane scattered to the wind.

  Ken Kesey

  Airplane, Reality, Wind

  Ken Kesey (2006). “Sometimes a Great Notion”, p.160, Penguin

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• With spirit we are all children of the cosmos; Without it we are orphaned and adrift.

  Deepak Chopra

  Motivational, Spiritual, Children

  Deepak Chopra (1997). “The Seven Spiritual Laws for Parents: Guiding Your Children to Success and Fulfillment”, Harmony

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• Within this realm of choicelessness, we do choose how we live.

  Joseph Epstein

  Inspirational, Realms, Our Dreams

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• I was adrift in a sea of questions and if answers were lifeboats, I was in imminent danger of drowning.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Sea, Answers, Drowning

  Karen Marie Moning (2008). “Faefever: Fever Series”, p.49, Delacorte Press

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• Literature is born when something in life goes slightly adrift.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Library, Literature, Born

  Simone de Beauvoir (1965). “The prime of life”

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• It all started off with stirring speeches, Greek columns, the thrill of something new. Now all that's left is a presidency adrift, surviving on slogans that already seem tired, grasping at a moment that has already passed, like a ship trying to sail on yesterday's wind.

  Paul Ryan

  Tired, Wind, Yesterday

  Republican National Convention VP Nomination Acceptance, delivered 29 August 2012, Tampa, Florida

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• The greatest missile in the world is useless ... unless it's targeted. A torpedo is adrift unless it has someplace to go. An arrow is pointless unless it hits something. So it's important for kids--for everyone, even if you fail at first--to target something and head in that direction. With all your might.

  Tim Allen

  Kids, Arrows, Important

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• In a river mist, if another boat knocks against yours, you might yell at the other fellow to stay clear. But if you notice then, that it's an empty boat, adrift with nobody aboard, you stop yelling. When you discover that all the others are drifting boats, there's no one to yell at. And when you find out you are an empty boat, there's no one to yell.

  Zhuangzi

  Yelling, Rivers, Might

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• The trouble with God isn't that He so seldom makes Himself known to us... He's holding you and me and everybody else by the scruff of the neck practically _constantly... Contentedly adrift in the cosmos, were you?... That is a perfect description of a non-epiphany, that rarest of moments, when God Almighty lets go of the scruff of your neck and lets you be human for a little while.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Letting Go, Perfect, Religion

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• He rocked in the swells, floating like the first germ of life adrift on the earth's cooling seas, formless macule of plasm trapped in a vapor drop and all creation yet to come.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Sea, Vapor, Firsts

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• Since Israel would rather re-experience Masada than renounce the core Zionist objective of establishing a Jewish state, the only one-state "solution" on the horizon of realistic possibilities is an Israeli "one state" that fulfills the messianic nationalist ideal embraced by deep Zionism, likely consisting of completing the expansionist process of recent years by incorporating all or most of the West Bank, casting Gaza adrift, consolidating control over Jerusalem, and transferring as many West Bank Palestinians as possible to Jordan.

  Richard A. Falk

  Israel, Years, Horizon

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• About 95% of people can be compared to ships without rudders. Subject to every shift of wind and tide, they're helplessly adrift. And while they fondly hope that they'll one day drift into a rich and successful port, you and I know that for every narrow harbor entrance, there are a 1,000 miles of rocky coastline. The chances against their drifting into port are 1,000 to one.

  Earl Nightingale

  Successful, Wind, People

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• Modern humanity's sense of alienation lies in the fact that we have cut ourselves adrift from both the natural world and from the roots of our past.

  Philip Carr-Gomm

  Lying, Cutting, Past

  Philip Carr-Gomm (2011). “Druid Mysteries: Ancient Wisdom for the 21st Century”, p.61, Random House

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