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Quotes About Searching

She did not say goodbye. She was incapable, and after a few more minutes at his side, she was able to tear herself from the ground. It amazes me what humans can do, even when streams are flowing down their faces and they stagger on, coughing and searching, and finding.
~ Markus Zusak
I say His name in a futile attempt to understand. But it's not your job to understand. That's me who answers. God never says anything. Tou think you're the only one he never answers?
~ Markus Zusak
Richard's bookshelves weren't alphabetized. He never had time to alphabetize them. He was always too busy- looking for books he couldn't find.
~ Martin Amis
How many times have I asked myself: when is the world going to start making sense? Yet the answer is out there. It is rushing towards me over the uneven ground.
~ Martin Amis
All is artifice in my world, Constantine. Even me. Especially me. He taught me to be a duchess, to be an impregnable fortress, to be the guardian of my own heart, But he admitted that he could not teach me how or when to allow the fortress to be breached or my heart to be unlocked. It would simply happen, he said. he promised it would, in fact. But how is love to find me, even assuming it is looking?
~ Mary Balogh
The job is to ask questions — it always was — and to ask them as inexorably as I can. And to face the absence of precise answers with a certain humility.
~ Arthur Miller
Searching for the Man who lives in him was perhaps what he really meant, because certainly no beast has essayed the boundless, infinitely inventive art of human hatred. No beast can match its range and power.
~ Arundhati Roy
He is searching for the beast that lives in him, Comrade Pillai had told them—frightened, wide-eyed children—when the ordinarily good-natured Bhima began to bay and snarl. Which beast in particular, Comrade Pillai didn't say. Searching for the Man who lives in him was perhaps what he really meant, because certainly no beast has essayed the boundless, infinitely inventive art of human hatred. No beast can match its range and power.
~ Arundhati Roy
sometimes, she felt pity for those countless nameless ones somewhere around them who, in a feverish quest, were searching for some answer, and in their search crushed others, perhaps even her; but she could not be crushed, for she had the answer.
~ Ayn Rand
I never gave you a chance to set fire to the dry tinder of my heart did it myself doused myself in gasoline, went searching for a match I found it in her a familiar beast of whiskey and jealousy
~ Stephanie Greene
He found himself still with too many questions and not enough answers.
~ Stephen King
Hello, Not-There," Piper said. Not-There was her private name for God just lately. Earlier in the fall it had been The Great Maybe. During the summer, it had been The Omnipotent Could-Be.
~ Stephen King
When you are searching, don't loose what you already have.
~ John Latchett
Take a moment and sit with yourself. You may find what you are looking for.
~ Steven Cuoco
Those that go searching for love only make manifest their own lovelessness, and the loveless never find love, only the loving find love, and they never have to seek for it.
~ D. H. Lawrence
I can't remember that I was ever looking for anything. I was waiting for something to touch me. It's like, I'll be open to it, and see if it moves me. There has to be a "falling in love" moment.
~ Richard Gere
A strange passion is moving in my head My heart has become a bird which searches in the sky. Every part of me goes in different directions. Is it really so that the one I love is Everywhere?
~ Rumi
Just a little homesick, Alice answered. It was the truth, she thought. She just wasn't sure she had yet been to the place she was homesick for.
~ Jojo Moyes
As if something's missing. I feel as if there's some puzzle to which I don't hold all the pieces. Does that sound terribly silly?
~ Jojo Moyes
Don't give up, Fred,' said Marc. 'It might be that you're looking in the wrong places.
~ Jojo Moyes
I don't know if it was just the joy of being surrounded by books, and quiet, but I felt like an equal here, inconspicuous, a brain, a keyboard, just another person searching for information.
~ Jojo Moyes
En realidad, no tenía un lugar al que volver.
~ Jojo Moyes
I was twenty-six years old and I wasn't really sure what I was.
~ Jojo Moyes
Eu tinha vinte e seis anos e não sabia muito bem quem era.
~ Jojo Moyes