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Quotes About Search

Stop—in the name of god, if you love your own life, call off this search! My suffering is enough.
~ Sophocles
Too much of our lives corresponds to the 'lost-wallet' theory of life. You lose something, spend a long time finding it, and then feel grateful to be back where you started.
~ Gloria Steinem
I brewed potions in a vain search for life everlasting, I read books, I sang songs of history, And today I've come home to Cold Mountain To pillow my head on the stream and wash my ears.
~ Hanshan
It may be romantic to search for the salves of society's ills in slow-moving rustic surroundings, or among innocent, unspoiled provincials, if such exist, but it is a waste of time.
~ Jane Jacobs
I've never had the right words to describe my life, and now that I've entered my story, I need them more than ever.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
Somehow I have the feeling that in some book is the great treasure I've been looking for all my life.
~ Jessamyn West
I've always looked for the perfect life to step into. I've taken all the paths to get where I wanted. But no matter where I go, I still come home.
~ Layne Staley
She went looking for beauty but never looked inside herself.
~ Mohamed Ghazi, Honest
Life is a duty and an eternal journey in search of beauty.
~ Debasish Mridha
With humanity, life has ended up with a living creature that never quite finds itself in the right place, a living creature destined to wander and endlessly make mistakes.
~ Michel Foucault
On that search for happiness we did nothing with all those other emotions that made us human.
~ Darnell Lamont Walker
...and here, in this if I always lose myself.
~ Luigi Pirandello, If...
There is a better future, with a greater purpose. One can find it, only if he or she searches for it.
~ Ellen J. Barrier
I have diligently disciplined my life to search out life's gifts in the places where life stores its scraps.
~ Craig D. Lounsbrough
life is a question unanswered till its end
~ Agha Kousar
Happiness in something you need to search for, It comes from inside. You can pull it out from inside by satisfaction and acceptance.
~ Vijay Dhameliya
There is a better future, with a greater purpose. We can find it, only when we search for it.
~ Ellen J. Barrier
Life without God is a long and fruitless search for enjoyment, meaning, and fulfillment.
~ Jim George
Sometimes the best way to find what you really desire in life is to stop looking for it.
~ T.R. Wallace
Adam inquires concerning celestial motions, is doubtfully answered, and exhorted to search rather things more worthy of knowledge.
~ John Milton
I still want to believe that somewhere, somehow, there is a happy ending for every story. It all depends on how thoroughly you look for it and how badly you need it.
~ John Pielmeier
Here was an absolutely compelling road sign. Stay on the road of objective truth - there is objective being and objective value. Stay on the road. There is Truth. There is a Point and Purpose and Essence to it all. Keep searching. You will find it.
~ John Piper
First she got Jesus, probably fifteen years ago, and that didn't work out, so she tried Scientology, and that didn't help, but it cost a lot of money, so she tried Buddhism and yoga, and those didn't work, so she started drinking. I think that helped, because she's still drinking.
~ John Sandford
I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.
~ John Steinbeck