Quotes About Search

I'll get back to the main theme of the book: man's search for god in a pointless, violent universe.

No sé si me entendiste: buscabas al amor como al trabajo de publicista, con muchísimas ganas de no encontrarlo.

Why can't reason give greater answers? Why can we throw a question further than we can pull in an answer? Why such a vast net if there's so little fish to catch?

many people seem to lose God along life's way.

the only Raj they managed to get was a

The search for meaning is an illusion of logic and a requirement of the middleclass for predictable breeding space.

For in my nature I quested for beauty, but God, God hath sent me to sea for pearls.

And how do I know that the hate of death is not like a man who has lost his home when young and does not know where his home is to return to?

You can say 'What are you looking for' and 'Who are you looking for.' Can you say 'Where are you looking for'?

I work only with lost and founds.

Reality is the raw material, language is the way I go in search of it - and the way I do not find it. But it is from searching and not finding that what I did not know was born, and which I instantly recognise. Language is my human effort. My destiny is to search and my destiny is to return empty-handed. But - I return with the unsayable. The unsayable can only be given to me through the failure of my language. Only when the construction fails, can I obtain what I could not achieve.

I am so lost. But that is exactly how we live; lost in time and space.

And I scream: I feel, I suffer, I am happy, I am moved. Only my enigma interests me. More than anything, I search for myself in my great void.

é assim porque é assim. Existe no mundo outra resposta? Se alguém sabe de uma melhor, que se apresente e a diga, estou há anos esperando.

Feit is dat ik een levenslot in handen heb en me toch niet bij machte voel om vrijuit te scheppen: ik volg de verborgen lijn van het noodlot. Ik kan niet anders dan een waarheid zoeken die me te boven gaat.

Qué hay después de la felicidad?

Do I not have a plot to my life? for I am unexpectedly fragmentary.

Realidad? Te espero. Es allí donde voy.

En definitiva, en esa búsqueda del placer está resumida la vida animal. La vida humana es más compleja: se resume en la busca del placer, en su temor, y sobre todo en la insatisfacción de los intervalos.

The experimenter who does not know what he is looking for will not understand what he finds.

This is why I belong, and why I believe. I commend to all this same search for happiness and for the truth.

Where's the beef?

There was almost a fairy quality to this place, he thought. The far look and the clear air and the feeling of detachment that touched almost on greatness of the spirit. As if this were a special place, one of those special places that each man must seek out for himself, and count himself as lucky if he ever found it, for there were those who sought and never found it. And worst of all, there were even those who never hunted for it.

For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.