Quotes About Being Adrift

#1. I liked being adrift in symbols, beauty for beauty's sake.

Paul Monette

#2. Youth is seen as everything. You don't know anything when you're young. It's great being older, just having a more balanced perspective. I wake up and realise that what seemed to be important last year no longer is. I'm increasingly grateful for every day.

Val Kilmer

#3. To tolerate does not mean to forget that what we tolerate does not deserve anything more

Nicolas Gomez Davila

#4. Women can fake an orgasm, but men can fake an entire relationship.

Sharon Stone

#5. I would waste thirty minutes a day, standing in front of a mirror that I never had any inclination to really pay proper attention to. And even after I made myself up for nothing, I was still derided and abused for it. It was rather like putting a dress on a bear and pretending it was beautiful.

Michelle Franklin

#6. 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

#7. Most of my teachers probably found I made less trouble if they let me read.

Eric Allin Cornell

#8. People know me as 'Wipeout Girl' or 'Mercury Girl.' They never know my name, and sometimes, maybe that's a good thing.

Jill Wagner

#9. My first film, 'Vanishing on 7th Street,' I really just kinda went in for it. Just gave it my all at the auditions.

Jacob Latimore

#10. The old woman took the umbrella, gratefully, and smiled her thanks. "You've a good heart," she told him. "Sometimes that's enough to see you safe wherever you go." Then she shook her head. "But mostly, it's not.

Neil Gaiman

#11. Jo knew nothing about philosophy or metaphysics of any sort, but a curious excitement, half pleasurable, half painful, came over her, as she listened with a sense of being turned adrift into time and space, like a young balloon out on a holiday.

Louisa May Alcott

#12. My confused feeling for her had been holding me back, and I had to clung to her out of my fear of being forced out on my own, and cut adrift.

Daniel Keyes

#13. Henceforth, whenever we are threatened with being cast adrift upon love's transcendent, golden shore, I want you to slap my face.

Amanda Quick