Unmoored Quotes

#1. My head feels like a snow globe that's been shaken, and glitter is swirling around in it like unmoored stars.

Laini Taylor

#2. 'Natural' is a word that has become unmoored by its meanings. If you go into a vitamin shop, things are natural, and people look at that, and they think it's good. It's no different than any other thing you swallow.

Michael Specter

#3. What strikes me most of all in Christian culture, which is supposed to be concerned with the rights of the weakest, is the lack of regard toward animals. Maybe because they're thought to be soulless.

Dacia Maraini

#4. The tragedy of Wilsonianism is that it bequeathed to the twentieth century's decisive power an elevated foreign policy doctrine unmoored from a sense of history or geopolitics.

Henry Kissinger

#5. To an unmoored, middle-aged man like myself, it was heart-breaking. That's all right. I like to have my heart broken.

Kurt Vonnegut

#6. One word I had throughout the first year and a half of my mother's death was 'unmoored.' I felt that I had no anchor, that I had no home in the world.

Meghan O'Rourke

#7. The rock's easy, but the roll is another thing...

Keith Richards

#8. As far as I'm concerned, I'm just a guitar player, and my job is to go out there and play and entertain and do my thing.

Les Paul

#9. Hadn't we both yearned for escape, reinvention, new identities? Hadn't we each, in the end, unmoored ourselves by cutting loose the anchors that weighed us down?

Khaled Hosseini

#10. Life ends with a snap of small bones, a head cracked from its stem, and a spirit unmoored ...

Sarah Kernochan

#11. Why do I write books? Why do I think? Why should I be passionate? Because things could be different, they could be made better.

Zygmunt Bauman

#12. Yes, I missed his dick and all our play, but it was the loss of his stare, the warmth of his attention, and the emotional safety of his sphere of influence made me feel unmoored.

C.D. Reiss

#13. I stay where I am, watching as she lies down on her belly and scoots under the bed beside me. I imagine how different this would feel if we were both on top of the bed instead of underneath it, how easily something childlike could grow adult possibilities.

Stacey Jay

#14. Along with all those who left their countries for other shores, I belong in neither land. We are unmoored and disconnected, like these poplar seeds blown into the crevices of the buildings, into the corners of the world.

Elena Gorokhova

#15. Art is always the replacement of indifference by attention.

Guy Davenport

#16. In an unmoored life like mine, sleep and hunger and work arrange themselves to suit themselves, without consulting me.

Kurt Vonnegut

#17. That sense of the world being the lack of something dogged him for years, and when it stopped dogging him, he felt unmoored.

Sandra Newman

#18. Remember "the unmoored boat floats about.

Murasaki Shikibu

#19. A wise person can never be truly poor;
a foolish person can never be truly rich.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#20. The king stood in a pool of blue light, unmoored.

Emily St. John Mandel

#21. Every time we draw our breath we suck in mercy.

Thomas Watson

#22. Frequently, to be an American then was to be periodically unmoored, transient, so bereft of options that moving on was the only choice.

Rinker Buck

#23. Adrift and unmoored, she had tried again and again to throw him a rope to save him from the raging waters. And now he no longer felt like a drowning man at sea. Nora ... the siren and the goddess, the ship and the wine-dark sea. She would either save him or end him.

Tiffany Reisz

#24. Incidentally, the usual designation of the magnitude scale to my name does less than justice to the great part that Dr. Gutenberg played in extending the scale to apply to earthquakes in all parts of the world.

Charles Francis Richter

#25. Home has always been one of the most important things. If I don't feel at home in my space, then I feel really unmoored.

Nate Berkus

#26. [T]he effects of general change [in literature] are most tellingly recorded not in alteration of the best products, but in the transformation of the most ordinary workaday books; for when potboilers adopt the new style, then the revolution is complete.

Stephen Jay Gould

#27. The Wolf hurled himself into the midst of the hobyahs with a roar that shook the ground, and the creatures screamed in panic. "Dog! Dog!" The wolf bared his teeth. "I. Am not. A dog!

Julie Kagawa

#28. Whole generations of students were blown off their life courses, rendered jobless, unmoored by direction or occupation. My father raged about the incessant closing of the university.

Nayomi Munaweera

#29. In the government schools, which are referred to as public schools, Indian policy has been instituted there, and its a policy where they do not encourage, in fact, discourage, critical thinking and the creation of ideas and public education.

Russell Means

#30. Without our artists and storytellers, we have no history, and without history your future is unmoored -- we drift. It is art, never war, that carries culture forward.

Sharon E. McKay

#31. 80 per cent of people who care about politics and national issues fall in the 'taking sides' category.

Chetan Bhagat

#32. Flirtation is a circulating library, in which we seldom ask twice for the same volume.

Nathaniel Parker Willis