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Quotes About Searching

It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this. —BERTRAND RUSSELL
~ Douglas T. Kenrick
You are always trying to get "home" but never feel at home.
~ Eckhart Tolle
missing. All I knew was that whatever I was looking for, I couldn't find it with anyone
~ Edie Claire
In light of knowledge attained, the happy achievement seems almost a matter of course, and any intelligent student can grasp it without too much trouble. But the years of anxious searching in the dark, with their intense longing, their alterations of confidence and exhaustion and the final emergence into the light -- only those who have experienced it can understand it
~ Albert Einstein
He is the prospector of the air, perpetually searching its strata for olfactory gold.
~ Aldo Leopold
Cansada del estruendo mágico de las vocales Cansada de inquirir con los ojos elevados Cansada de la espera del yo de paso Cansada de aquel amor que no sucedió Cansada de mis pies que sólo saben caminar Cansada de la insidiosa fuga de preguntas Cansada de dormir y de no poder mirarme Cansada de abrir la boca y beber el viento Cansada de sostener las mismas vísceras Cansada del mar indiferente a mis angustias
~ Alejandra Pizarnik
te remuerden los días te culpan las noches te duele la vida tanto tanto desesperada, ¿adónde vas? desesperada ¡nada más!
~ Alejandra Pizarnik
All night I hear the voice of someone seeking me out. All night you abandon me slowly like the water that sobs slowly falling. All night I write luminous messages, messages of rain, all night someone checks for me and I check for someone.
~ Alejandra Pizarnik
Y yo caminaría por todos los desiertos de este mundo y aun muerta te seguiría buscando, a ti, que fuiste el lugar del amor.
~ Alejandra Pizarnik
I do nothing but search and not find. That's how I waste my nights.
~ Alejandra Pizarnik
Horror of checking for you in the screams of my poem.
~ Alejandra Pizarnik
Dónde dejar mis ojos, cuándo augurarles una estación amable. Quiero decir: lo que muero cada noche, mis huesos torcidos por abrazar una sombra.
~ Alejandra Pizarnik
Coro Nadie llega a ninguna parte, las ciudades huyen y se esconden. Ejércitos de caminantes señalan falsos rumbos. Hemos nacido para no llegar
~ Alejandro Dolina
Lord, why did you leave me in these woods?
~ Aleksandar Hemon
I feel like a periwinkle Left too high on the beach By the tide ... What flood was it That brought me here? Eleanor Morris, "Easter Sunday
~ Alex Beam
I can't help feeling as if there's something missing in my life. But I don't know what it is. And the harder I look, the more I can't find it because there's just too much pressure and not enough time.
~ Alexandra Potter
I wasted so many years just traveling and sitting in hotels, searching for things, not knowing.
~ Sergei Polunin
I'm not going to lie, the first three years of being in the group, I would look for trolls. I would search Leigh Anne. I would look through Twitter and I would search Leigh Anne from Little Mix, the black girl in Little Mix, I would put these things in my search engines just to see the comments.
~ Leigh-Anne Pinnock
The exile is a person who, having lost a loved one, keeps searching for the face he loves in every new face and, forever deceiving himself, thinks he has found it.
~ Reinaldo Arenas
But he saw Naomi as the wind traveling over the field, always searching, never stopping, and never knowing that true piece is when you curl around one little piece of something. One little fern. One little frond. One person to love.
~ Rene Denfeld
But he saw Naomi as the wind traveling over the field, always searching, never stopping, and never knowing that true peace is when you curl around one little piece of something. One little fern. One little frond. One person to love.
~ Rene Denfeld
As one can hardly find any thing in a house where nothing keeps its place, but all is cast on a heap together; so it is in the heart where all things are in disorder, especially when darkness is added to this disorder: so that the hear t is like an obscure cave or dungeon, where there is but a little crevice of light, and a man must rather grope than see No wonder if men mistake in searching such a heat, sand so miscarry in judging of their estate (304).
~ Richard Baxter
God is waiting eagerly to respond with new strength to each little act of self-control, small disciplines of prayer, feeble searching after him. And his children shall be filled if they will only hunger and thirst after what he offers.
~ Richard Holloway
He was out hunting for Cortman. It had become a relaxing hobby, hunting for Cortman; one of the few diversions left to him.
~ Richard Matheson