Directionless Quotes

“Where are we headed? Are we not endlessly plunging —backwards, sideways, forwards, in all directions? Is there an up and a down anymore? Do we not wander as if through an endless nothingness? Do we not feel the breath of empty space? Hasn’t it grown colder?”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs

“The truth is we're all dying, the lie is we're all living.”
― Anthony Liccione

“In life there are times you must only walk without any particular direction to find your random fate!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“On outoa olla ilman suunta, näkemättä horisonttia. En ole menossa minnekään.”
― Elin Willows, Inlandet

“This was everything that I wanted to be done with, the relaxed banality of life without goals.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Black Prince

“Many of us know nothing other than a directionless cadence, having left the footprints of our lives meandering down a road that’s meandering itself.”
― Craig D Lounsbrough

“I ask myself everyday what my life is doing to me and I realize I don't have anybody I can talk to."

"You should have" said the Doctor "everybody should.”
― Henning Mankell, The Dogs of Riga

“Yet as our North Bay strolls grew longer, sometimes wandering felt like pacing, adrift. I had no direction, only a romantic wish: to become a professional writer. But whatever terrain existed between my body and a body of work I might create seemed mysterious and vast, unknown. Most days, the sky was satin, markless blue. But below, fog hung like a suspended field of snow that never melted, the boundless dampness muting San Francisco’s lights. And the path to that summit of composing even one novel was invisible.”
― Aspen Matis, Your Blue Is Not My Blue: A Missing Person Memoir

“Some people seem to have a map of life: they know where they are going and they plot their route. I have just floated in a chartless sea, my journey governed by the winds and currents. I’ve reacted. First I fled from Motherdarling. I would not have been a student were it not for Gilles. I have spent all my life since then at the Sorbonne, until I had to leave. I married when my girl got pregnant; she gave birth and raised my son; if she had not left me I’d still be with them both. I wedded for the second time as the result of being wooed, not wooing. Life’s been done to me and now I don’t know where to go.”
― Dave Appleby, Motherdarling

“In some ways it was the conventional clandestine affair in a place like San Bernadino, a place where little is bright or graceful, where it is routine to misplace the future and easy to start looking for it in bed.”
― Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem

“I can't say why I went to college–except that I had been going to school all my life and didn't know what else to do. I didn't go with any particular hope. Hell, I knew what I was in for eventually. I was just marking time. Whatever I did was just marking time. If people were willing to pay me to go to school and mark time, why not do it?
The weird part was, I worked hard, got top grades. If you work hard enough at something that doesn't matter, you can forget a while about the things that do.”
― Octavia E. Butler, Bloodchild and Other Stories