Quotes About Search

I wondered if I had not come a long way only to find that what I really sought was something I had left behind.

The search for the point of temperate power between competing elements of life—the national government and the states, the states and the people—was far from over.

the problem with Google is that it is forever evolving – adjusting its algorithm in ways it keeps secret.

According to Google's own research into our "eye movements," 53 percent of us don't go beyond the first two search results, and 89 percent don't look down past the first page.

It's like hunting cows

The aim of the Internet and its associated technologies was to "liberate" humanity from the tasks—making things, learning things, remembering things—that had previously given meaning to life and thus had constituted life. Now it seemed as if the only task that meant anything was search-engine optimization.

Aveva perso le tracce di ciò che voleva, e poiché una persona è ciò che vuole, si poteva dire che avesse perso le tracce di se stesso.

He would go looking for it everywhere in the years to come. Love, love, love. As if it were a coin to be found in a field, or a park. As if it could be obtained without forfeiture.

Then again, the story does involve a missing person, and it could well be me. Or you, or practically anybody. As he said to me once, who's not missing?

I tried the key in all the doors, even though he said he didn't recognize it. It's not that I didn't trust him, becuase I did. It's that at the end of my search I wanted to be able to say: I don't know how I could have tried harder.

From the movie Everything is Illuminated based on a book by Jonathan Safran Foer: I have reflected many times upon our rigid search. It has shown me that everything is illuminated in the light of the past. It is always along the side of us, on the inside, looking out. Like you say, inside out. Jonathan, in this way, I will always be along the side of your life. And you will always be along the side of mine.

I realized I was on a something island. 'How did I get here,' I wondered, surrounded by Nothing, and how can I get back?

I have been waiting for you for so long." I pointed to the car. "We are searching for Trachimbrod." "Oh," she said and she released a river of tears. "You are here. I am it.

There was nothing, which would have been unfortunate, unless nothing was a clue. Was nothing a clue?

I thought he had to look for what he was looking for, and realize it no longer existed, or never existed. p. 233

I walked seven circles around you when we got married. I can't even find you now.

Lui scrisse: Io non so come vivere Neanch'io, ma sto tentando. Non so come tentare

His words fell through him, trying to find the floor of his sadness.

There is a Talmudic legend about three men who go in search of God. One became insane, the other died, and the third met himself.

En busca de la tarde fui apurando en vano las calles. Ya estaban los zaguanes entorpecidos de sombra.

Quién se resigna a buscar pruebas de algo no creído por él o cuya prédica no le importa?

Would not the characters of her many novels be the search, if not the expression, of her many selves? Add the thousands of letters sent, as if cast upon the sea in so many bottles, in the search for understanding, for love... (...)

Mandelstam was, one is tempted to say, a modern Orpheus: sent to hell, he never returned, while his widow dodged across one-sixth of the earth's surface, clutching the saucepan with his songs rolled up inside, memorizing them by night in the event they were found by Furies with a search warrant. These are our metamorphoses, our myths.

I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.