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Quotes About Search

I always seem to be in search of the missing, for something that was not quite achieved, some key to understanding that I need. Why was I there? Why did I leave? Who was I supposed to meet and didn't? Was it to be found in the store next to the one I walked into, the place that held what I was really looking for and didn't even know I was looking?
~ bargen walter ii
What's it like to go looking for your soul, only to learn you never had one to begin with?
~ Barry Lyga
The search for truth takes you where the evidence leads you, even if, at first, you don't want to go there.
~ Bart D. Ehrman
Globalization is the last failed hope that, somewhere, there still exists a land where one can escape and find happiness.
~ bauman zygmunt ii
But deluded people don't realize that their own mind is the Buddha. They keep searching outside.
~ Bodhidharma
I started running away when I was five years old. It wasn't until I was an adult that I realized what I really wanted was somebody to come after me when I was running away.
~ Willie Aames
The basic answer is that I wasn't happy or fulfilled by the job I had and I wanted my life to mean something to me, so I searched my life experience and realized that acting and performing were activities that I enjoyed all aspects of.
~ Gil Gerard
A safe but sometimes chilly way of recalling the past is to force open a crammed drawer. If you are searching for anything in particular you don't find it, but something falls out at the back that is often more interesting.
~ James M. Barrie
Most canele recipes begin with an instruction to brush $30 copper molds with melted beeswax. Unsurprisingly, I've never made it past the Internet search for 'used canele molds' before giving up.
~ Samin Nosrat
The main thing that those two albums have in common aside from my music, which of course, a sense of it, you can recognize, it is that the bass on Infinite Search was playing much, much less like a bass.
~ Miroslav Vitous
You find happiness where you find it.
~ Anna Paquin
Happiness? No, it's not there for me.
~ Robert Mapplethorpe
Look for me in the nurseries of Heaven.
~ Francis Thompson
I guess you can run from Google, but you definitely can't hide.
~ Patrick Pichette
I've always felt that even though a man was not a Christian, he still has to know the truth some way or another. Or if he was a Christian, he could know the truth. The truth itself doesn't have any name on it to me. And each man has to find this for himself, I think.
~ John Coltrane
I lost myself, and if I hadn't found the beautiful lady, I should never have found myself.
~ George MacDonald
I need a God; and if there be none how did I come to need one?
~ George MacDonald
But thou shalt at least find faith in the earth, O Lord, if thou comest to look for it now-the faith of ignorant but hoping children, who know that they do not know, and believe that thou knowest.
~ George MacDonald
four buyers rushed out in search of flocks.
~ George S. Clason
He sent the trained dog that is his talent off in search of a fat glorious pheasant, and it brought back the lower half of a Barbie doll.
~ George Saunders
A man is well educated when he knows where to find what he doesn't know.
~ George Simmel
But the truth is that I never had to search for a role model. I was the son of George Bush.
~ George W. Bush
If I were to be asked what we are, I should answer: 'We are the door to everything that can be, we are the expectation that no material response can satisfy, no trick with words deceive. We seek the heights. Each one of us can ignore this search if he has a mind to, but mankind as a whole aspires to these heights; they are the only definition of his nature, his only justification and significance.
~ Georges Bataille
Busco a un tiempo lo eterno y lo efímero
~ Georges Perec