Top 100 Aimless Quotes

#1. I never justify, sustain, or in any way or to any extent uphold this cruel, heartless, aimless unnecessary war.

Franklin Pierce

Aimless Quotes #1191
#2. To be useful was the best thing the old men ever hoped for themselves, and to be aimless was their worst fear

Marilynne Robinson

Aimless Quotes #8892
#3. Among the aimless, unsuccessful or worthless, you often hear talk about 'killing time.' The man who is always killing time is really killing his own chances in life. While the man who is destined to success is the man who makes time live by making it useful.

Arthur Brisbane

Aimless Quotes #26427
#4. I pictured myself the Queen of Hearts as sort of embodiment of ungovernable passion - a blind and aimless Fury

Lewis Carroll

Aimless Quotes #26895
#5. The cows in Stella Gibbons's immortal 'Cold Comfort Farm' are named Graceless, Aimless, Feckless and Pointless, and that more or less is the verdict on 'Ocean's Kingdom,' the wildly hyped and wildly uninteresting collaboration between Peter Martins and Paul McCartney.

Robert Gottlieb

Aimless Quotes #56149
#6. Change is a friend to a life with a vision, but an enemy to an aimless person.

Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

Aimless Quotes #58208
#7. Let's enjoy these aimless days while we can, I told myself, fearing some kind of deft acceleration.

Don DeLillo

Aimless Quotes #74034
#8. He had married (as most young men did) because he had met a perfectly charming girl at the moment when a series of rather aimless sentimental adventures were ending in premature disgust; and she had represented peace, stability, comradeship, and the steadying sense of an unescapable duty.

Edith Wharton

Aimless Quotes #91004
#9. Imagination is essential and it comes first, for without imagination we are aimless.

C. Northcote Parkinson

Aimless Quotes #99526
#10. Weeks passed like boats waiting to sail into the starless dawn, we were full of aimless endless darkness.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Aimless Quotes #112646
#11. We live in an age of generational turmoil. Baby-boom parents are accused of clinging on to jobs and houses which they should be freeing up for their children. Twentysomethings who can't afford to leave home and can't get jobs are attacked as aimless and immature.

Jane Ridley

Aimless Quotes #112672
#12. I am persuaded that normal human beings are biologically built for an activity that is aimed toward a goal and that idleness, or aimless work (like Auschwitz's Arbeit), gives rise to suffering and to atrophy.

Primo Levi

Aimless Quotes #122088
#13. An objective is an ambition, and life without ambition is ... well, aimless wandering.

Alfred Wainwright

Aimless Quotes #145025
#14. It's funny how aimless a person can feel at times, even when they know God is in control.

Chris Fabry

Aimless Quotes #169336
#15. The Spaniards have been reduced to aiming aimless balls into the box.

Ron Atkinson

Aimless Quotes #173531
#16. To the aimless man all men are equal, but to him with purpose some men are seed and others weed

Agona Apell

Aimless Quotes #175368
#17. Man does not drift into goodness ... the chance port of an aimless voyage. He must fight ever for his destination.

William George Jordan

Aimless Quotes #178061
#18. Work seemed something fundamental for man, something which enabled him to endure the aimless flight of time.

Kobo Abe

Aimless Quotes #204178
#19. Wandering down the street in an aimless sort of way, cold too, in a dress from last night that made young men stop and stare in the street, Charity Hill found herself hating the single life for the very first time.

Elizabeth Jane Howard

Aimless Quotes #224080
#20. We all know them - the unstructured person whose every action seems aimless and the totally organized person whose every action defeats some purpose.

Robert Breault

Aimless Quotes #224262
#21. To speculate without facts is to attempt to enter a house of which one has not the key, by wandering aimlessly round and round, searching the walls and now and then peeping through the windows. Facts are the key.

Julian Huxley

Aimless Quotes #235448
#22. Painting keeps me occupied in those moments when travel can be aimless and even disorienting. Mainly it is a way to register at least some of the new impressions of a foreign place, when its thrilling barrage can sometimes overwhelm you.

Susan Minot

Aimless Quotes #239147
#23. They aimless halt, who halt for others.

Swami Vivekananda

Aimless Quotes #240908
#24. Nowadays, her life is more like a newspaper: aimless, up-to-date and full of meaningless events

Michel Faber

Aimless Quotes #281937
#25. In place of an intensive cooperation among artists, there is a battle for goods. Hatred, partisanship, cliques, jealousy, and intrigues are the natural consequences of an aimless, materialist art.

Wassily Kandinsky

Aimless Quotes #283806
#26. Even aimless journeys have a purpose ...

Tony Horwitz

Aimless Quotes #286824
#27. Maybe you could be mine / or maybe we'll be entwined / aimless in this sexless foreplay.

Jess C. Scott

Aimless Quotes #303374
#28. The white people were as thick and numerous and aimless as grasshoppers, moving always in a hurry but never seeming to get to whatever place it was they were going to.

Dee Brown

Aimless Quotes #321006
#29. For me, faith means that what is right will win out one day. It means that the universe is not aimless but moves by some positive design.

Sarah Ferguson

Aimless Quotes #338142
#30. If it's a beautiful day, I love taking walks. The walks are always aimless.

Pete Hamill

Aimless Quotes #338829
#31. Sloths have low metabolisms, so they have to move slowly in order to conserve energy. However, they aren't aimless or "lazy" and they actually move around quite a lot - just very, very slowly.

Ann Burton

Aimless Quotes #344555
#32. Aimless extension of knowledge, however, which is what I think you really mean by the term curiosity, is merely inefficiency. I am designed to avoid inefficiency.

Isaac Asimov

Aimless Quotes #365564
#33. A million miles from nowhere, is better than going nowhere, a million times.

Anthony Liccione

Aimless Quotes #376959
#34. I'm sure he doesn't see it as aimless. We all have different goals. His are achievable.

Colin Cotterill

Aimless Quotes #381674
#35. For some, the life journey has just started, for some, it is about to end; but in truth, there is no start and there is no end! There is just an ocean of particles playing aimlessly!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

Aimless Quotes #420206
#36. These struggling tides of life that seem In wayward, aimless course to tend, Are eddies of the mighty stream That rolls to its appointed end.

William C. Bryant

Aimless Quotes #423616
#37. I am translucent, aquatic. Drifting, aimless. She is an anchor, sinking in my sea. - BENTON JAMES KESSLER

Colleen Hoover

Aimless Quotes #423913
#38. If we would only give, just once, the same amount of reflection to what we want to get out of life that we give to the question of what to do with a two weeks' vacation, we would be startled at our false standards and the aimless procession of our busy days.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

Aimless Quotes #447908
#39. The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.

O. Henry

Aimless Quotes #462266
#40. Aimless drifting also fulfills an intention.

Mason Cooley

Aimless Quotes #480688
#41. without music he felt aimless and adrift.

Nicholas Sparks

Aimless Quotes #506072
#42. Must be out-of-doors enough to get experience of wholesome reality, as a ballast to thought and sentiment. Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life.

Henry David Thoreau

Aimless Quotes #551429
#43. I'd rather be befriended as an aimless lost soul than be befriended for adornment, gain or goal.

Donna Lynn Hope

Aimless Quotes #590857
#44. But the truth was stranger than an aimless road, it always was.

Aspen Matis

Aimless Quotes #634040
#45. Like a fierce wind roaring high up in the bare branches of trees, a wave of passion came over me, aimless but surging ... I suppose it's lust, but it's awful and holy like thunder and lightning and the wind.

Marion Milner

Aimless Quotes #635176
#46. But that's the Way, and there is no other. And once his mind's made up, the trembling and aimless walking stops, and he can look doom in the face without flinching. ("Jane Brown's Body")

Cornell Woolrich

Aimless Quotes #642355
#47. Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life. This life in the present.

Henry David Thoreau

Aimless Quotes #667308
#48. Unattached and aimless, these old men are always infatuated with little certainties and regularities such as those that ordered the life of Mr. Krupper as seen from outside. Habit is living. Anything unexpected reminds them of death.
("Hard Candy")

Tennessee Williams

Aimless Quotes #700371
#49. Take my hand
and ...
feel the sand
beneath your aimless feet
towards the sparkling waves

Munia Khan

Aimless Quotes #717029
#50. And if they thought her aimless, if they thought her a bit mad, let them. It meant they left her alone. Marya was not aimless, anyway. She was thinking.

Catherynne M Valente

Aimless Quotes #719220
#51. An aimless joy is a pure joy," I said, quoting Yeats.

Paul Theroux

Aimless Quotes #763003
#52. The streets of a modern city are depressing. They are so aimless and so weak in their lines and their masses, that the mind and senses jog on their way like passengers in a train with blinds down in an overcrowded carriage.

Wyndham Lewis

Aimless Quotes #766745
#53. Being truly aimless is like being dead. It may even be the same thing, or worse. It is the aimless who find the wrong roads, and drive down them, simply because they have nowhere else to go.

Michael Marshall Smith

Aimless Quotes #780888
#54. I always felt that the problems of the world would never ever be solved until people came to terms with the deeper issues [spiritual] - that there would be an aimless reshuffling of world leaders and governments and programs.

Woody Allen

Aimless Quotes #785192
#55. The best kept secret in America today is that people would rather work hard for something they believe in than live a life of aimless diversion.

John W. Gardner

Aimless Quotes #817775
#56. Is it that they think it a duty to be continually talking,' pursued she: 'and so never pause to think, but fill up with aimless trifles and vain repetitions when subjects of real interest fail to present themselves, or do they really take a pleasure in such discourse?

Emily Bronte

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#57. Most men lead lives of aimless distraction.

Rick Warren

Aimless Quotes #847911
#58. What's in a life without Camaraderie? For setting sail on a ship with a band of merry brothers by your side is much more gratifying than drifting aimlessly on a boat lost alone at sea.

Saim .A. Cheeda

Aimless Quotes #867855
#59. Without vision, a church devolves into a lukewarm, aimless organization characterized by infighting, budget grabbing and a dead heart for the lost.

Todd Stocker

Aimless Quotes #901898
#60. We are all dead. All equal. Broken and aimless and believing we are alive. This is Russia and it is 1952. What else would you call hell?

Catherynne M Valente

Aimless Quotes #919419
#61. Aimless life leads to depression

Sunday Adelaja

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#62. Each of us needs to withdraw from the cares which will not withdraw from us. We need hours of aimless wandering or spates of time sitting on park benches, observing the mysterious world of ants and the canopy of treetops.

Maya Angelou

Aimless Quotes #1008682
#63. An absolutely devastating ridicule of all that is false, primitive, and vicious in current American life: the abuses of power, hero worship, aimless violence, materialistic obsession, intolerance, and every form of hypocrisy.

Terry Southern

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#64. Idolatry, then, is always polytheism, an aimless passing from one lord to another. Idolatry does not offer a journey but rather a plethora of paths leading nowhere and forming a vast labyrinth.

Pope Francis

Aimless Quotes #1026521
#65. The spirit of our American radicalism is destructive and aimless; it is not loving; it has no ulterior and divine ends; but is destructive only out of hatred and selfishness.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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#66. Nature without learning is blind, learning apart from nature is fractional, and practice in the absence of both is aimless.

Plutarch

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#67. To have serpentlike qualities devoid of dovelike qualities is to be passionless, mean, and selfish. To have dovelike without serpentlike qualities is to be sentimental, anemic, and aimless. We must combine strongly marked antitheses.

Martin Luther King Jr.

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#68. Prayer is powerful, but if our prayers are aimless, meaningless, and mingled with doubt, they will be of little hope to us.

Billy Graham

Aimless Quotes #1055118
#69. I didn't want to be thirtysomething and not know what I was going to do. I was quite afraid of that, there were quite a lot of aimless kids around, in that 'other' side of my life, who didn't really know what to do because they always had a bank balance to fall back on and they were quite lost.

Stella McCartney

Aimless Quotes #1067727
#70. One who gossips usually carries boredom in one hand and bitterness in the other.

Suzy Kassem

Aimless Quotes #1074138
#71. When someone's lost, aimless and adrift
Take the time, give 'em a lift
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery
But today, you can be their gift.

Squire Rushnell

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#72. You feel a little bit lost right now about what to do with your life, a bit rudderless and oarless and aimless but that's okay that's alright because we're all meant to be like that at twenty-four.

David Nicholls

Aimless Quotes #1095482
#73. I heard what I'd learned against my will to identify as new age music. Aimless and spacey, it meandered from unresolved keyboard chord to unresolved keyboard chord with some somnolent noodling in place of melody. Drooling pianos, music to sleepwalk by.

Timothy Hallinan

Aimless Quotes #1097942
#74. Tod Donald rarely did anything voluntarily, or with planning, or even with intent acknowledged to himself; he found himself doing one thing, and then he found himself doing another, and that, as he saw it, was the way one lived along, never deciding, never helping.

Shirley Jackson

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#75. There are so many ways of walking about and the best, in my opinion, is the Greek way, because it is aimless, anarchic, thoroughly and discordantly human.

Henry Miller

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#76. I would have told them that he lived a life lacking in purpose or direction. Like those aimless rides I took him on. A life lived from the backseat, observed as it blurred by. An indifferent life.

Khaled Hosseini

Aimless Quotes #1110872
#77. May the days be aimless. Let the seasons drift. Do not advance the action according to a plan.

Don DeLillo

Aimless Quotes #1119426
#78. Existence was given us for action, rather than indolent and aimless contemplation; our worth is determined by the good deeds we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel. They greatly mistake who suppose that God cares for no other pursuit than devotion.

Elias Lyman Magoon

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#79. We're all drifters here, embarked on an aimless journey

Marty Rubin

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#80. you will need to figure out what you wish to do with your time." He said in a sickening and patronizing tone. He might as well have been talking to an aimless teenager flailing to launch into the world.

K.J. Kilton

Aimless Quotes #1227647
#81. It had the tangled floor plan common to all hospitals, seemingly designed by someone who believed in the healing power of watching confused visitors aimlessly wander around hallways.

David Wong

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#82. Purge your mind of all aimless and idle thoughts, especially those that pry into the affairs of others or wish them ill.

Marcus Aurelius

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#83. May the days be aimless. Do not advance action according to a plan.

Don DeLillo

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#84. A man has no reason to be ashamed of having an ape for his grandfather. If there were an ancestor whom I should feel shame in recalling it would rather be a man who plunges into scientific questions with which he has no real acquaintance, only to obscure them by an aimless rhetoric ...

Thomas Huxley

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#85. Without a goal [maneuvering is] aimless. You might be a master tactician, but you'll have no sense of strategy.

Garry Kasparov

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#86. But my dreaming self refuses to be consoled. It continues to wander, aimless, homeless, alone. It cannot be convinced of its safety by any evidence drawn from my waking life.

Margaret Atwood

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#87. If I have a last wish, I want to remember you. In an aimless life, to not even have those memories would be hell.

Lee Hyung-chul

Aimless Quotes #1417913
#88. The ellipse is as aimless as that,
Stretching invisibly into the future so as to reappear
In our present. Its flexing is its account,
Return to the point of no return.

John Ashbery

Aimless Quotes #1439996
#89. Adults forget the depths of languor into which the adolescent mind decends with ease. They are prone to undervalue the mental growth that occurs during daydreaming and aimless wandering

Edward O. Wilson

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#90. The fixed is the world without fire- dead flint, dead tinder, and nowhere a spark. It is motion without direction, force without power, the aimless procession of caterpillars round the rim of a vase, and I hate it because at any moment I myself might step to that charmed and glistening thread.

Annie Dillard

Aimless Quotes #1483602
#91. Finn drifted around, rootless and aimless as dandelion fluff in the wind.

Laura Ruby

Aimless Quotes #1512349
#92. Her mind traveled crooked streets and aimless goat paths, arriving sometimes at profundity, other times at the revelations of a three-year-old. Throughout this fresh, if common, pursuit of knowledge, one conviction crowned her efforts: ... she knew there was nothing to fear.

Toni Morrison

Aimless Quotes #1526591
#93. Let's enjoy the aimless days while we still can.

Don DeLillo

Aimless Quotes #1575879
#94. Some people aim at nothing in life and hit it with amazing accuracy.

Aman Jassal

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#95. A perfect piece of architecture kindles that aimless reverie, which bears the soul we know not whither.

Madame De Stael

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#96. Not to mention Graceless, Pointless, Feckless and Aimless, who are all under-producing and their milk is sour and they won't go anywhere near the yard.

Charles Stross

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#97. Far away, our dreams have nothing to do with what we do. The wind carries the night, and passes on, aimless.

Mahmoud Darwish

Aimless Quotes #1622977
#98. It is all one spectacle of forces running to waste, of people who use and do not replace, the story of a country hectic with a wasting aimless fever of trade and money-making and pleasure-seeking.

H.G.Wells

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#99. Intelligence in isolation turns to aimless marauding.

Mason Cooley

Aimless Quotes #1650016
#100. Though logic-choppers rule the town,
And every man and maid and boy
Has marked a distant object down,
An aimless joy is a pure joy ...

William Butler Yeats

Aimless Quotes #1650143

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