Adrift Quotes
Finding footing when nothing feels solid.
These adrift quotes explore losing a sense of family after loss, alongside historical explorers literally cast adrift on unfamiliar waters. See related reflections in our Beginning quotes collection.
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.
I always felt culturally adrift as a child because I'm mixed race. I've had to deal with that since I was little. Who am I? What makeup do I have? What are the black and the white?
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I did projects on Champlain coming up the St. Lawrence River and on Henry Hudson cast adrift in the bay that now bears his name. And I read dozens of historical novels: Rosemary Sutcliff on Roman Britain and G. A....
My mum used to work in New York in Spike Lee's shop; she did the outfits for the video for P.M. Dawn's 'Set Adrift on Memory Bliss.'
Aim Quotes
Some people think we're adrift without any guidelines. I don't. I think we've had instruction on how to live.
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.
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?
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.
To an intellectual who is adrift in politics, a theory is an aim; to a true politician his theory is a boundary.
Always Quotes
In this case it appealed to me partly because it felt close to me in some ways. This is about a confused, bewildered middle class Englishman adrift in smalltown America and that has definitely been me.
Every movie, I find myself adrift at the beginning of the movie, and then I find my way through the dark forest.
I live in a Moomin house in East London which I fill with blankets and nice crockery and get people round for dinner. When you travel a lot, you feel rootless and adrift - this is my sanctuary, where I...
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Sometimes feeling adrift comes not from hardship but from too much ease and too little purpose. Continue with Aim quotes and America quotes.
