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Quotes About Searching

I do not know who I am, where I am going - and I am the one who has to decide the answers to these hideous questions
~ Sylvia Plath
I wish I knew what to do with my life, what to do with my heart…
~ Sylvia Plath
Just for once, Binabik, I want you to tell me there is an answer for something. I'm tired of thinking so much." The troll laughed. "The punishment for being born . . . no, perhaps that is too much to be calling that. The punishment for being truly alive—that is fair to say. Welcome, Simon, to the world of those who are every day condemned to thinking and wondering and never ever knowing with certainness.
~ Tad Williams
That's the thing about digging holes," Quinn said. "There are no assurances you'll find what you want—or want what you find.
~ Tami Hoag
Ozorne, my precious, where are you? - Rikash Moonsword
~ Tamora Pierce
He studied Cyrion's vacant face, its hateful glamour like a mask, the searching, hopeless eyes.
~ Tanith Lee
Seeking Romulan Montargo here and there, Leopardo had continually not found him.
~ Tanith Lee
You have always been alone, always self-centered and fearful of opening yourself to other persons, for to do so is to risk rejection and pain. But it is a risk we are born to take, we humans. We cannot live alone, cannot find happiness or peace alone, cannot love alone. The person alone must always be fleeing, always searching. He flees from the loneliness without end. He searches, whether he will or not, for another who will fill his emptiness.
~ Julian May
What does it mean to be Catholic and not a Catholic? I feel adrift, homeless. My Catholic imagination allows me to see the soul as a lit breath, seeking the divine. It persists.
~ Julianna Baggott
You won't know until it's over. You won't find me in time.
~ Julie Anne Peters
Hay ríos metafísicos, ella los nada como esa golondrina está nadando en el aire, girando alucinada en torno al campanario, dejándose caer para levantarse mejor con el impulso. Yo describo y defino y deseo esos ríos, ella los nada. Yo los busco, los encuentro, los miro desde el puente, ella los nada.
~ Julio Cortazar
We went around without looking for each other, but knowing we went around to find each other.
~ Julio Cortazar
Y los gestos del amor, ese dulce museo, esa galería de figuras de humo. Consuélese tu vanidad: la mano de Antonio buscó lo que busca tu mano, y ni aquélla ni la tuya buscaban nada que ya no hubiera sido encontrado desde la eternidad. Pero las cosas invisibles necesitan encarnarse, las ideas caen a la tierra como palomas muertas.
~ Julio Cortazar
Ya para entonces me había dado cuenta de que buscar era mi signo, emblema de los que salen de noche sin propósito fijo, razón de los matadores de brújulas.
~ Julio Cortazar
De ce atât de departe de zei? Poate fiindc? ne punem intrebarea.
~ Julio Cortazar
Å¢De ce atât de departe de zei? Poate fiindc? ne punem intrebarea.
~ Julio Cortazar
Porque, sin buscarte te ando encontrando por todos lados, principalmente cuando cierro los ojos
~ Julio Cortazar
Nesse tempo, já me dera conta de que procurar era minha sina, emblema de todos aqueles que saem à noite sem qualquer finalidade exata, razão de todos os destruidores de bússolas.
~ Julio Cortazar
I realized that searching was my symbol, the emblem of those who go out at night with nothing in mind, the motives of a destroyer of compasses.
~ Julio Cortazar
I am a woman searching for her savagery even if it's doomed
~ June Jordan
These poems they are things I do in the dark reaching for you whoever you are from "These Poems
~ June Jordan
Besides it only happens when you're not looking for it. That's what everybody claims. Easier to say that than This shit sucks.
~ Junot Diaz
Why can't we find what we are looking for?" the answer is that we DO find what we are looking for, but what we are looking for is not what we really want. What we are looking for is things that remind us of the god of our childhood, but this god was not an accurate guide to the virtues and sensations that we really want.
~ Justice Saint Rain
Nadie que busque realmente encuentra. La búsqueda es producto de la neurosis. Los encuentros, en cambio, son producto de una ley universal que rige cada movimiento y nos conduce hacia donde tenemos que ir. Nada
~ Juvenal Acosta