Quotes About Searching

Where do you look for someone who's never really there? Always on a staircase but never on a stair.

They're not going anywhere, they're escaping. And I don't think they know what it is that they want to escape.

each remembered other moments, on a sleepless night, on an afternoon of steady rain, in a church, in an empty street at sunset, when each had wondered why there was so much suffering and ugliness in the world. They had not tried to find the answer and they had gone on living as if no answer were necessary. But each had known a moment when, in lonely, naked honesty, he had felt the need of an answer.

What I am searching for is the gaps - the silences. This is how I see the past: as an excavation. You sift through the rubble, pick up one fragment here, another there, label it and record where you found it, noting the time and date of discovery. It is not just the foundations I am looking for but something at once more and less tangible.

The fact is I don't know what I want, and I don't know if I am doing the right thing. I've always been told what is right—and suddenly I don't know anymore. I know what I don't want, but I don't know what I want,' she said, looking down at the ice cream she had hardly touched.

He would always be like that, my grandfather, always searching for that new start, always running away from the familiar. By the time the family arrived in Hawaii, his character would have been fully formed, I think—the generosity and eagerness to please, the awkward mix of sophistication and provincialism, the rawness of emotion that could make him at once tactless and easily bruised.

her eyes narrowed as she searched my face like a doctor examining a patient for symptoms.

It looks like I'm going home, but it's not home. Maybe it's because I have no home. Or maybe it's because it's when I'm not home that I feel most at home, in a place that feels like home. When are we ever at home?

She would just be catching up when I'd go again, swimming farther out into life because I still hadn't found a rock to stand on.

I wanted to go home. Which was nowhere, but it's a feeling you keep having, even after that's no place anymore.

It's one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else.

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When you really want love you will find it waiting for you.

Deep in my soul, I've been so lonely, all of my hopes fading away. I've longed for love, like everyone else does, I know I'll keep searching after today.

In Mexico people wear hummingbird amulets around their necks to show they are searching for love. Here people pretend that they aren't. Searching.

Just because I was out at the bars all the time didn't mean I wasn't looking for someone to love.

On the sly, scoping for love.

I'm driven. I am. I'm driven for some reason. But I don't know where I'm going.

That old rock and roll song, "looking for love in all the wrong places," it's true.

With careful searching, with careful attention, you might tip the balance toward opportunity and against obstacle sufficiently so that life is clearly worth living, despite its fragility and suffering.

Só Pedro Bala não a procurava no trapiche. Procurava ver, no céu de tanta estrela, uma que tivesse longa e loira cabeleira.

Mi alma perdida va cruzando el desierto de la vida

Painted into a corner, caught in a cul-de-sac, out on that final last-chance limb, life scrabbles around, searching for a new way out.

Jaypaw would have bet a moon of searching the elders' fur for ticks that the squirrel Mousepaw caught had been on the ground.