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Quotes About Searching

I'm interested in people who have lived, who are searching and questioning.
~ Maria Bello
A novel should be a book of questions, not a book of answers.
~ Hilary Mantel
I'm always looking, and I'm always asking questions.
~ Anne Rice
Why was I feeling this way? Why was everything so bad in my life? I had no answers to these questions.
~ Susan Smith
Life's so much based on instincts and quick decisions, and people don't know what they're looking for.
~ Whitney Wolfe Herd
When we made that album with Gary Moore, I was still kind of searching for the right direction for myself. Although the music is quite good the direction was like a box of fireworks that caught light all at the same time.
~ Greg Lake
My job involves searching for 'lost' quotations - that is, trying to find out who came up with a quotable saying that lingers in someone's mind and which they wish to use for their own purpose and which they cannot find in conventional dictionaries of quotation.
~ Nigel Rees
I've always been a person that is searching for truth and always wants to go further, deeper.
~ Lykke Li
I like people who genuinely are looking for a project and not a job.
~ Daniel Schwartz
While you are searching for a job, it is a good idea to be on your best behavior.
~ Judy Smith
our stories are all stories of searching. We search for a good self to be and for good work to do. We search to become human in a world that tempts us always to be less than human or looks to us to be more. We search to love and to be loved. And in a world where it is often hard to believe in much of anything, we search to believe in something holy and beautiful and life-transcending that will give meaning and purpose to the lives we live.
~ Frederick Buechner
This side of Nirvana, there is no such escape for any of us as far as I know.
~ Frederick Buechner
Intrigado con ese enigma, escarbó tan profundamente en los sentimientos de ella, que buscando el interés encontró el amor, porque buscando que ella lo quisiera terminó por quererla.
~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Probably my worst habit is, when I get really stressed out, down to the wire, and Im trying to find clothes or find something, literally anything, I throw everything everywhere, and I dont pick it up because Im in that anxious space, still.
~ Renee Rapp
I'm not searching for the meaning of life, but I'm looking for a meaning within my life.
~ David Lowery
You're always searching for the thing to heal you, and I thought therapy would give me that. But it didn't - it just helps you recognize your demons.
~ Rick Springfield
I think sometimes I should do more carousing, because I don't do much and maybe it would be fun occasionally. It's hard for me to have fun and I'm a serious thinker and a searcher and funny from the front.
~ Garry Shandling
I feel Noah has been alone for the majority of his life and inherently searching for a family, even though he may not express that outwardly. But his encounter with Rosalee gave him hope in finding someone who thinks like him.
~ Aldis Hodge
If I'm in a relationship, I'm 1,000% in it. I love doing things for them and surprising them. And that's just something I thoroughly enjoy and it gives me a lot of pleasure. I just haven't found that right girl yet.
~ Josh Henderson
To those who encountered Otto at the time, he seems to be a man purged by fire, walking through Amsterdam as though in a strange dream, searching for news of his children. Finding out that he was his family's sole survivor must have sent him to a very dark place. Vince hypothesized that Otto's grief had eventually turned into a mission to find the people responsible for the Annex raid, although his motive was not vengeance; he was seeking accountability and justice.
~ Rosemary Sullivan
I took the conch shell and set it to my ear. Its susurrus sounded less like the sea than the labored breathing of a tiring runner. No doubt I heard what I was listening for.
~ Ross MacDonald
I'm just a floating question-mark, waiting for an answer to hook onto me.
~ Ross MacDonald
I'm a misplaced American, but don't know where I was misplaced.
~ Ruby Wax
You go from village to village on your horse asking everyone, "Has anyone seen my horse?"
~ Rumi