Quotes About Searching
Captain McCrae was wanting to know the answer to questions that had no answer.
~ Larry McMurtry
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Long past the moment when her neck begins to stiffen and ache, she continues to stare into the darkness, even though none of the human secrets she needs to know are to be found in the stars but rather closer to the earth her boots stand upon.
~ Larry Watson
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who is the love of my life? Maybe I don't have one. Maybe it's not love at all. But if it's not love, then what is it? I wish I knew.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
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My purse, like all purses, seems to have a traveling black hole in it.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
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We spent the rest of the afternoon searching for the lost Girl Scout troop. We found them asleep, drugged with music. They were curled around a sign that said, "No All-Female Groups Beyond This Point. Satyr Breeding Area." Satyrs have a peculiar sense of humor. I
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
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Having begun my life in science searching for the equation beyond time, I now believe that the deepest secret of the universe is that its essence rests in how it unfolds moment by moment in time.
~ Lee Smolin
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When searching for harmony in life one must never forget that in the drama of existence we are ourselves both actors and spectators.
~ Niels Bohr
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If you are searching for sacred knowledge and not just a palliative for your fears, then you will train yourself to be a good skeptic.
~ Ann Druyan
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She prayed for that all through the night, uncertain to Whom or what, but with a feeling that almost resembled faith.
~ Hillary Jordan, When She Woke
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Beware of finding what you're lookin
~ Richard Hamming
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I scattered J.Lo's tools around the car, searching for some kind of rope, or something that could be used like a rope. I should have paid more attention to anything that looked like a pencil sharpener made of lemon Jell-O that, when cranked, would spit out superstrong yarn that smelled like ginger ale. I only mention this because J.Lo really did have such a thing.
~ Adam Rex
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for lack of what is found there.
~ Alain de Botton
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Searching represents the achievement of the goal of searching. Finding represents the achievement of the goal of finding.
~ Alan Cohen
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The Sun has come to represent enlightenment and salvation across many cultures. I think that if we remove such comforting concepts we are required to do more soul searching but eventually our eyes become accustomed to the dark and our lives become richer.
~ Derren Victor Brown
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The overarching narrative of the Bible is that of humanity searching for home.
~ Diana Butler Bass
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One question keeps troubling me: Why?. . . The short answer: I don't know. and yet that single word, why, remains the consummate human query. By nature, we're curious. We want to know.
~ Don Piper
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There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
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The Bible is the one Book to which any thoughtful man may go with any honest question of life or destiny and find the answer of God by honest searching.
~ John Ruskin
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Many of those who are driven to this life are desperately searching for those pockets of silence where we can root and grow.
~ Mark Rothko
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Keep searchin' for your mystery note on the universal piano of life.
~ Rahsaan Roland Kirk
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The experience of time translates itself into language, and language translates itself into distance, which translates itself into longing, which is the realization of time. (…) how sad and strange that I, Jenny Boully, should be the sign of a signifier or the signifier of a sign, moreover, the sign of a signifier searching for the signifies.
~ Jenny Boully
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No set line between lost and not lost.
~ Jenny Offill
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A giant once lived in that body. But Matt Brady got lost. Because he was looking for God too high up and too far away.
~ Jerome Lawrence
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asking a demanding why of God.
~ Jerry Bridges
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