Quotes About Searching

It is not only that there is no hiding place for the gods from the searching telescope and microscope; there is no such society any more as the gods once supported.

The world is a kind of spiritual kindergarten where millions of bewildered infants are trying to spell "God" with the wrong blocks.

Nothing is important save the spiritual state that enables one to subjectify one's thoughts to a sensation and to think only of the sensation, all the while searching to express it.

Now anxiety is the mark of spiritual insecurity. It is the fruit of unanswered questions. But questions cannot go unanswered unless they first be asked.

Everyone seems to be searching and yearning for answers whatever they may be. And that ends up being some kind of spiritual or religious belief.

Anxiety and spiritual searching have been consistent themes with me, and that figures into my worldview. But I tend to make my songs sound like relationship songs.

It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty. To the contrary, I believe it would be possible to rob even a healthy beast of prey of its voraciousness, if it were possible, with the aid of a whip, to force the beast to devour continuously, even when not hungry.

But the years of anxious searching in the dark, with their intense longing, their alternations of confidence and exhaustion, and the final emergence into the light - only those who have experienced it can understand that.

We read to find the end, for the story's sake. We read not to reach it, for the sake of the reading itself. We read searchingly, like trackers, oblivious of our surroundings. We read distractedly, skipping pages. We read contemptuously, admiringly, negligently, angrily, passionately, enviously, longingly.

chissà cos'hanno perso di così importante per strisciare in quel modo in mezzo alla campagna, chissà se lo troveranno mai, sarebbe bello lo trovassero, che almeno una volta, almeno ogni tanto, in questo dannatissimo mondo, qualcuno che cerca qualcosa avesse in sorte di trovarla, così, semplicemente, e dicesse l'ho trovata, con un lievissimo sorriso, l'avevo persa e l'ho trovata - sarebbe poi un niente la felicità.

He was always reading. With his street kid clients, the popular belief was that he was searching for an elusive gap that existed somewhere in his books, hidden between lines or letters. One that would allow him, once and for all, to crawl inside the pages and disappear.

Cat was searching for the company of one who would make her happy. Some of us did not have to look long for that person, some of us found him or her with little difficulty; others had longer to look, and had less luck.

And a coffee cup, as we all know, is not something that it pays to look into if one is searching for meaning beyond meaning; coffee, in all its forms, looks murky and gives little comfort to one who hopes to see something in it. Unlike tea, which allows one to glimpse something of what lies beneath the surface, usually more tea.

You were looking for somebody, and there was somebody, and you would convince yourself that this random person was what you were really looking for in the first place.

All of us, Mma Ramotswe thought, wanted something, even if we were unable to tell anybody exactly what it was that we wanted.

the truth sometimes seemed too thin to satisfy our yearnings.

He had been looking in quite the wrong place-a place of darkness-when he should have been looking in a place of light.

We belonged nowhere here; we belonged nowhere else.

Life isn't about finding the answers, life is about knowing there are always more questions.

Every good poem asks a question, and every good poet asks every question.

We mustve been here before, its still fresh on my mind. You got that shit that somebody would look for but wont find. You mustve done this before, this cant be your first time.

So much of life isn't about having the right answer; it's about knowing the right question.

I am always looking for meaningful one night stands.

I'm always looking for meaningful one-night stands