Quotes About Searching

But what was making her unhappy? Where was the extraordinary catastrophe that had wrecked her life?She raised her head and looked around, as though trying to find the cause of her suffering.

I am the obscure and patient pearl-fisherman who dives into the deepest waters and comes up with empty hands and a blue face.

Emma tried to find out what one meant exactly in life by the words felicity, passion, rapture, that had seemed to her so beautiful in books.

Le vrai besoin qu'il avait éprouvé tout ce temps-là était de goûter un moment de silence qu'il ne pouvait trouver à l'endroit où son esprit ordinaire le gardait occupé à chercher.

A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the man who finds it.

He flipped through the music stations as he drove, searching for some nonexistent perfect song that would be, as Stevie Nicks might sing, "hauntingly familiar" yet not played so often as to beat it into submission. When he did find such a song—a rarity—it was always the last verse, and so the flipping would start anew. When

whenever I see a table of college "friends" sitting together they are inevitably texting with unseen others, searching, always searching, I guess, for something that might be better, a perpetual life

All my life I have lived and behaved very much like the sandpiper - just running down the edges of different countries and continents, 'looking for something'.

If travel is searching and home what's been found, I'm not stopping. I'm going hunting.

What am I doing here?

We must leave this terrifying place to-morrow and go searching for sunshine.

The man who spends his time choosing one resort after another in a hunt for peace and quiet will in every place he visits find something to prevent him from relaxing.

I went down to Houston and I stopped in San 'Antone, I passed up the station for the bus. I was trying to find me something, but I wasn't sure just what... man, I ended up with pockets full of dust.

There's a lot of nice things about Denver. I just don't for the life of me know what they are.

I ran to the forest, I ran to the trees. I ran and I ran, I was looking for me.

I was like a cat always climbing the wrong tree.

…In the end we are all just searching for truth, that which is greater than ourselves.

Most people think they are searching for truth when they are really searching for love

I am in truth the Steppenwolf that I often call myself; that beast astray that finds neither home nor joy nor nourishment in a world that is strange and incomprehensible to him.

Show me a person in my shoes who is looking for a robot, and I'll show you someone who is looking for a person and can't find one.

I am a lover and have not found my thing to love. That is a big point if you know enough to realize what I mean. It makes my destruction inevitable, you see. There are few who understand that.

a stiff breeze had claimed Athens, filling bedrooms, rearranging the tops of desks, touching everything and nothing, as if searching for something it no longer recognized.

I don't have a bathin' suit," I tell them. "Don't worry," Brittany says. "Doug probably has one in the pool house you can wear." In the pool house, Doug looks through a drawer searching for suits. "There's only two here." Doug picks up a skimpy Speedo and holds it out to me. "This okay for you, big guy?" "That wouldn't fit my right testicle.

are you saying that the feeling of searching for a missing sock is like searching for love ?