Quotes About Searching

I'm grateful to have gone through so many different seasons of life because without those years of searching, I'd still have no idea who I am and what Andrew Ripp really has to say.

Our life seems cursed to be a wiggle merely, and a wandering without end.

Not sure of my place in the world (still up for debate) and not sure what I wanted to do with my life (not really up for debate).

She kept swimming out into life because she hadn't yet found a rock to stand on.

I feel like I'm away for much of my own life.

I asked her about life, and it was as if she rummaged around in a dusty chest to get me the answers.

I'm totally confused about what I'm going to do with my life.

Even awake we're dreaming, always creating, always searching for some mud pie to turn into pumpkin apple chiffon.

He found her pretty in a bewildered, washed-out way, but it was her restlessness that aroused him, the quiet exasperation of a woman who longs to throw herself into something significant, but cannot find what it is.

Only a weak mind seeks ultimate answers.

La culpa la tiene tu cabeza que no sabe calmarse, busca sin cesar una manera de funcionar

desde chico no sólo sabía que no era lo que los demás creían, sino tampoco lo que yo mismo creía ser. Me decía: soy otra cosa, una cosa que permanece oculta en mis venas, no tiene nombre y espera. Pero no sabía qué era esa cosa y, sobre todo, no sabía cómo podía ser yo...

Mi sento come quando all'improvviso si mette a piovere forte, ti guardi intorno e non trovi un posto dove ripararti.

On the other hand I wasn't really depressed. I felt, rather, as if I had left myself somewhere and was no longer able to find myself: I was worn out, that is, by movements that were too quick and barely coordinated, by the urgency of one who is searching everywhere and has no time to waste.

I can't find my car keys in the morning. Trying to get out of my house is a nightmare. 'Where's my wallet? Where are my keys? I have to go find a missing person.'

Another reason for annoyance is being unable to identify the music. I once spent a considerable period of time vainly searching through the scores of Haydn's quartets, convinced that the tune which was preoccupying me was the slow movement of one of them. It turned out to be from his 88th Symphony, which I had not heard for a long time.

Like an abandoned dog who cannot find a smell or a track and roams along the roads, with no road, like the child who in a night of the fair gets lost among the crowd, and the air is dusty, and the candles fluttering,--astounded, his heart weighed down by music and by pain; that's how I am, drunk, sad by nature, a mad and lunar guitarist, a poet, and an ordinary man lost in dreams, searching constantly for God among the mists.

así voy yo, borracho melancólico, guitarrista lunático, poeta, y pobre hombre en sueños, siempre buscando a Dios entre la niebla.

After so much time he was still searching as he had then, hoping for something he couldn't name but that corroded or undermined his stability of thought, not allowing him real rest, injecting doubt and suspicion into the evident satisfaction or everything he'd achieved

I stop wanting what I am looking for, looking for it.

You're such a fugitive, but you don't know what you're running from.

The use of standardized terms and relationship indicators allows for successful searching and navigation.

This searching and doubting and vacillating where nothing is clear but the arrogance of quest. I, too, had such noble ideas when I was still a boy.

The past nine years in San Diego have represented such a period of questioning.