Adrift quotes
20 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"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."
"I think, at heart, unless you discover faith in something else, something other, it's very hard to shake the thing that you're adrift alone."
"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."
"Literature is born when something in life goes slightly adrift."
"The vaporish cocaine loosens the contours of their lives and sets their bodies adrift, and so they are untouchable."
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"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"."