Quotes About Searching

Aurora asked.

You're searching for unicorns among mules.

I had thousands of books in my house and never found anything I wanted to read. I would stare at the shelves of books like a hungry person staring into an open refrigerator and wait for something to speak to me. But nothing ever spoke.

It hung between grief and yearning, and it welled from a deep ache for something that Pax could never divine.

Hey!' she said, punching Hanna's arm hard. 'Where have you been, bitch? I've been looking all over for you!

The Storm I thought of you when I was wakened By a wind that made me glad and afraid Of the rushing, pouring sound of the sea That the great trees made. One thought in my mind went over and over While the darkness shook and the leaves were thinned— I thought it was you who had come to find me, You were the wind.

I'm a bit of a vagabond - a person who loses time and space because you don't know where you are.

They have gone. And the tunnel is about to close. So, boys, I am looking for someone to blame.

I don't really know what I'm ever looking for, it's kind of like whatever happens to resonate at the time with me.

Zuleika, on a desert island, would have spent most of her time in looking for a man's footprint.

Despite what people might think, I'm not interested in being dark all the time. I'm actually searching for some kind of light, and I'm always very happy when I can achieve that.

I've got CDs in my car, listening all the time for that next song, because everybody's looking.

I have spent a lot of time searching through the Bible for loopholes.

searching everywhere? Shouldn't they be extra alert, not

And what if the Vice-Consul of Lahore were no more than one man among the many looking for a woman with whom he hoped to find oblivion?

You can see as many towns as you like but it never gets you anywhere. And once you have stopped looking, there you are, exactly where you were before.

A part of every life, even a life meriting very little regard, is spent in searching out the reasons for its existence, its starting point, and its source. My own failure to discover these things has sometimes inclined me toward magical explanations, and has led me to seek in the frenzies of the occult for what common sense has not taught me.

People say it's the finality of death that they can't handle. But what was tearing me apart was that I didn't know where Aidan was. I mean, he had to be somewhere.

But, as we all know, the first law of shopping says that when you're urgently looking for something specific, you've no hope of finding it.

Making love to Aurelia was like rummaging through a card catalog in a deserted library, searching for one very obscure, little-read entry on Hungarian poetry.

said this. He kept on looking through

It may actually be more healthy to be disturbed, confused, or searching than confident, certain, and secure.

We don't know where we belong, but in times of sorrow it doesn't seem to be here, here with these silly pansies and witless mountains, here with sponges and hard-eyed birds.

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