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Quotes About Searching

It is my feeling,' she said, haltingly, 'that a faith that delivers perfect answers to every question is not a true faith, for its only purpose is to satisfy, to ease the mind and so end its questing.
~ Steven Erikson
It is far too easy to see you as a knot-browed barbarian, Toblakai. No, the drive to create is something other, isn't it? Have you an answer?' He shrugged. 'If one exists, it will only be found in the search – and searching is at creation's heart, Chosen One.
~ Steven Erikson
Although the role of serendipity is familiar, what's not so well appreciated is how different serendipity is from luck. Serendipity is not just an apparent aptitude for making fortunate discoveries accidentally, as my dictionary defines it. Serendipitous discoveries are always made by people in a particular frame of mind, people who are focused and alert because they're searching for something. They just happen to find something else.
~ Steven H. Strogatz
Our ignorance is such that most of us don't realize we're thirsty. Or, if we realize we're thirsty, we look for water in the wrong place. We go into fire looking for cool refreshment. And often we're confused about what our thirst actually is.
~ Steven Hagen
She didn't have an answer for that. People like her only ever have questions.
~ Steven Herrick
I just lost a buttonhole.
~ Steven Wright
Ays is my lost soul, he though, my lost soul wandering.
~ Storm Constantine
She walks in the great hall searching for the wedding feast that faded away like a dream. She is looking for herself as she was.
~ Storm Constantine
I went searching in a foreign land and found my way home.
~ Sue Bender
Searching for nothing Wondering if I'll change I'm trying everything But everything still stays the same I thought if I showed you I could fly Wouldn't need anyone by my side I'm running backwards With broken wings I know I'll die
~ Sully Erna
I was always kind of searching for the right social group in high school and never really felt like I belonged with any one specific clique.
~ Natalia Dyer
I wrote 'Monster' and thought that it would solve a lot of my problems, that I'd have money in the bank, but I felt no different. I was still searching for something.
~ Jon Bellion
I grew up in a life where the answer was always there, I guess. But now I'm out on my own and still looking for the answer. Nothing is solved for me.
~ Katy Perry
I grew up in big cities my whole life, and in my late 20s, I just felt like I was looking for something else.
~ Chloe Zhao
Last night, lost in spaces between star—bays and lakes of clouds, I tossed and turned looking for you
~ John Geddes
What is the point of searching for love, when love is nothing but an illusion?
~ Marie Lu, The Rose Society
Wolves mated for life. Where was he? Where was the echo to her howl, her mate? Was there no other lone wolf, searching the hills for her?
~ Andrea Hurst, Always with You
Would he ever have the strength to stop looking?
~ J.K. Rowling
She cries cuz shes lost and she doesn't even know what she wants. Her eyes grow cold as she begs the world to just let her go.lines from Love Vs Destiny...
~ Atul Purohit
What sorts of things do you google when your favorite person in the world is determined to leave it?
~ Miriam Toews
I stood there, like always, like forever it seemed, in the middle of the road waiting for something or someone to retrieve me, God or a parent or my husband or any of those things or people or ideas or words that by their definition promised love.
~ Miriam Toews
This is the greatest gift God can give you: to understand what happened in your life. To have it explained. It is the peace you have been searching for.
~ Mitch Albom
Still, I never considered what I would do if I called for the Lord and He actually appeared before me.
~ Mitch Albom
Is this all? Is this all I want? Is something missing?
~ Mitch Albom