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Quotes About Search

Until he found that bird, life would remain gray and bleak, illogical, without purpose; every seagull would remain a coincidental collection of blood and feathers pointed toward oblivion.
~ Richard Bach
Dininiz, do?ru olan? bulma yolunuzdur.
~ Richard Bach
The whole purpose of our search for a 'unit of selection' is to discover a suitable actor to play the leading role in our metaphors of purpose.
~ Richard Dawkins
This 'shuddering before the beautiful', this incredible fact that a discovery motivated by a search after the beautiful in mathematics should find its exact replica in Nature, persuades me to say that beauty is that to which the human mind responds at its deepest and most profound. S. Chandrashekhar , physicist, cited by Richard Dawkins
~ Richard Dawkins
He was… a lost apostrophe in search of a word to which he might belong
~ Richard Flanagan
He read books. He liked none of them. He searched their pages for Amy. She was not there. He went to parties. They bored him. He walked the streets, gazing into strangers' faces. Amy was not there. The world, in all its infinite wonder, bored him. He searched every room of his life for Amy. But Amy was not anywhere to be found.
~ Richard Flanagan
we search on our own and we search on behalf of ourselves. Whatever
~ Richard Geldard
Sometimes you find the panel, but it doesn't open; sometimes it opens, and your gaze meets nothing but a mouse skeleton. But at least you've looked. That's the real distinction between people: not between those who have secrets and those who don't, but between those who want to know everything and those who don't. This search is a sign of love I maintain.
~ Julian Barnes
That's one of the things about life. We're all just looking for a place of safety. And if you don't find one, then you have to learn how to pass the time
~ Julian Barnes
Though sometimes, first love cauterises the heart, and all any searcher will find thereafter is scar tissue.
~ Julian Barnes
Perhaps Goethe never found the right woman.
~ Julian Barnes
Es una de las cosas que tiene la vida. Todos buscamos un lugar seguro.
~ Julian Barnes
We're all just looking for a place of safety. And if you don't find one, then you have to learn how to pass the time.
~ Julian Barnes
That's one of the things about life. We're all just looking for a place of safety. And if you don't find one, then you have to learn how to pass the time.
~ Julian Barnes
Learnt how to pass the time. That's one of the things about life. We're all just looking for a place of safety. And if you don't find one, then you have to learn how to pass the time.
~ Julian Barnes
People know the difference between good and evil in their hearts—if they search them. Religions twist good and evil. Their differences are the kind that need to be taught because they aren't natural.
~ Julianna Baggott
Lyon Redmond was either a man on a pilgrimage in search of salvation, or a man out to burn on the pyre of his own love for a woman. Regardless, he still suffered.
~ Julie Anne Long
All his reckless, whimsical, sensual testing of the world throughout the years had been a search for what he knew with her. Passion and peace. Laughter and combat and friendship. God, but he loved her. It was an immensely humbling, enormous, radiant thing.
~ Julie Anne Long
eyes fixed on her as though she were the first sign of land after months at sea.
~ Julie Anne Long
I couldn't see you, no matter how I tried, if you moved around like a jellyfish.
~ K?b? Abe
Life the veil that obscures the heart, and there you will find what you are looking for.
~ Kabir
Aber sie halten es für eine Legende!' 'Weil sie es dafür halten wollen. Vielleicht würden sich manche Märchen und Mythen als wahr herausstellen, wenn nur jemand den Mut aufbrächte, in einem Brunnen nach einer goldenen Kugel zu suchen oder die Dornenhecke vor einem Schloss zu zerschneiden.
~ Kai Meyer
herself, but what would she find? A kept woman who was incapable
~ Karin Slaughter
Do you keep time in the same place that you save it? If so why is it always so difficult to find? It must be in a very safe place.
~ Kate Atkinson