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Quotes About Search

I'm something that I used to be. I'm never where I feel I am, and if I seek myself, I don't know who's seeking me. My boredom with everything has numbed me. I feel banished from my soul.
~ Fernando Pessoa
No encontrar nunca a Dios, no saber nunca, ni siquiera, si Dios existe! Ir pasando de mundo en mundo, de encarnación en encarnación, siempre en la ilusión que halaga, siempre en el error que acaricia.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Outros haverão de ter O que houvermos de perder. Outros poderão achar O que, no nosso encontrar, Foi achado, ou não achado, Segundo o destino dado.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Is it truth I want? I'll go back to my novel …
~ Fernando Pessoa
I am the escaped one. My soul seeks me/ through hills and valley/ I hope my soul/ never finds me.
~ Fernando Pessoa
All that I've had is like this high and diversely identical sky, tatters of nothing tinged by a distang light, fragments of pseudo-life gilded by death from afar with its sad smile of whole truth. All I've had has amounted to my not knowing how to search, like a feudal lord of swamps at twilight, solitary prince of a city of empty tombs.
~ Fernando Pessoa
All that I've had is like this high and diversely identical sky, tatters of nothing tinged by a distant light, fragments of pseudo-life gilded by death from afar with its sad smile of whole truth. All I've had has amounted to my not knowing how to search, like a feudal lord of swamps at twilight, solitary prince of a city of empty tombs.
~ Fernando Pessoa
I guess a good man IS hard to find!
~ Flannery O'Connor
The nearness I mean comes after death perhaps. It is what we are struggling for and if I found it either I would be dead or I would have seen it for a second and life would be intolerable.
~ Flannery O'Connor
Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to never was there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it. Where is there a place for you to be? No place.
~ Flannery O'Connor
If they here, they somewhere.
~ Flannery O'Connor
FLANNERY O'CONNOR Wise Blood
~ Flannery O'Connor
I'm a big fan of teatowels and am always on the lookout for a good one.
~ Nick Cave
So important is this dark matter to our understanding of the size, shape, and ultimate fate of the universe that the search for it will very likely dominate astronomy for the next few decades.
~ Vera Rubin
I don't know how consciously anyone looks for a father figure.
~ Frank Dillane
In some ways, I was looking for a father figure, and I found that in Donald Trump.
~ Omarosa Manigault Newman
Everyone - male and female - is biased. But no one wants to admit it, so our brains search for examples that disprove the accusation.
~ Nell Scovell
If a Hollywood studio needed a fighter to play the hero in an old-time boxing movie, the search could begin and end with John Duddy.
~ Thomas Hauser
I'm on this search trying to figure out exactly who I am and what I have to say to people.
~ Natalie Merchant
I'm working on just finding a boyfriend right now.
~ Kylie Bax
I don't like to search too much. I find it is easier when romance finds you.
~ Michelle Trachtenberg
As a result, ways out of the crisis are being intensively searched for at all levels - ways, which, however, aim at maintaining the whites' control over the country.
~ Joe Slovo
I'm not supposed to talk about the snail. The snail is, well, congratulations to whoever noticed it. It's supposed to be a thing where you gotta look for it in every episode, and it's there three times in every episode.
~ Steve Burns
Sometimes 'Frances' can be about finding the missing piece, trying to look for biological family as opposed to maybe realizing your family is whoever is around you at the time.
~ Cedric Bixler-Zavala