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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
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
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
What does it mean to be Catholic and not a Catholic? I feel adrift, homeless. My Catholic imagination allows me to see the soul as a lit breath, seeking the divine. It persists. -- Julianna Baggott
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
without music he felt aimless and adrift. -- Nicholas Sparks
Literature is born when something in life goes slightly adrift. -- Simone de Beauvoir
Without the eye, the head is blind. Without the head, the eye is adrift. -- Walter Darby Bannard
With spirit we are all children of the cosmos; Without it we are orphaned and adrift. -- Deepak Chopra
Loneliness is only an opportunity to cut adrift and find yourself. In solitude you are least alone. -- Bruce Lee
The vaporish cocaine loosens the contours of their lives and sets their bodies adrift, and so they are untouchable. -- Jean Genet
Just about a month from now I'm set adrift, with a diploma for a sail and lots of nerve for oars. -- Richard Halliburton
Adrift upon the sea of time, the lonely god wanders from shore to distant shore, upholding the laws of the stars above." -- Christopher Paolini
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
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
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.' -- King Krule
Fathers are so necessary as examples and guides for our children in wisdom and virtue. Without father figures, young people often feel orphaned; left adrift at a critical moment in their growth and development. -- Pope Francis
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
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
Tell us what it is to be a woman so that we may know what it is to be a man. What moves at the margin. What it is to have no home in this place. To be set adrift from the one you knew. What it is to live at the edge of towns that cannot bear your company. -- Toni Morrison
She cried out into his kiss, her hands clawing his shoulders, adrift now in a pleasure that threatened to consume her. In her sexual lifetime she had never known anything like it. Had never tasted such a dark kiss, one that warned her he had no intention of making allowances for sensual inexperience. He was hungry. Needy. And she was the meal he craved. -- Lora Leigh
Raising a daughter is an extremely political act in this culture. Mothers have been placed in a no-win situation with their daught ers: if they teach their daughters simply how to get along in a world that has been shaped by men and male desires, then they betray their daughters' potential But, if they do not, they leave their daughters adrift in a hostile world without survival strategies. -- Elizabeth Debold
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
Some people think we're adrift without any guidelines. I don't. I think we've had instruction on how to live. -- Jon Voight
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
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. -- Robert Smith
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. -- Colin Firth
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 can breathe out. -- Bat for Lashes
What a magical thing is the bed, and what a vulnerable, innocent creature is the sleeping human - the human who never looks more truthful or pitiful or benign; the curled-up, childlike dreaming soul who has for a few hours become an angel adrift. -- Michael Leunig
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.' -- Ryan Coogler
You are still adrift while you still think that a means is an end. -- Idries Shah
The very concept of solid ground is a myth. The galaxy itself is adrift. -- Luke Davies
All of us are vulnerable, and at times we all feel adrift. But somehow, we all muddle through. -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
I was adrift in a sea of questions and if answers were lifeboats, I was in imminent danger of drowning. -- Karen Marie Moning
Despite some standout events, 2012 was demoralizing. The Met felt adrift, and New York City Opera couldn't claw its way back to artistic health. -- David Edelstein
Most humans were on one big island, to the fairies, and that island was adrift on a sea called I Totally Donâ??t Care. -- Charlaine Harris
Convalescence. Such an utter weakness that you lie like an animal hibernating, playing possum. You float. You are adrift. Every current is stronger than you. -- Anais Nin
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
I don't think goodness is something that you learn. If you're left adrift in the world to learn goodness from it, you would be in trouble. -- Cormac McCarthy
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
Either we are adrift in chaos or we are individuals, created, loved, upheld and placed purposefully, exactly where we are. Can you believe that? Can you trust God for that? -- Elisabeth Elliot
Either we are adrift in chaos or we are individuals, created, loved, upheld and placed purposefully, exactly where we are. Can you believe that? Can you trust God for that~? -- Elisabeth Elliot
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

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