Quotes About Searching

I had better spend the day quietly, sleep in the afternoon perhaps, and then start again hunting for Hugo. I would have much preferred to look for Anna. But I had no idea now where to start looking. Also I wanted to lay quickly to rest the terrible suspicion that where I found Hugo now I would also find Anna. This idea didn't bear thinking about and so I didn't think about it.

What follows is ambiguous and sometimes tortuously told. Man's searchings and his strugglings are ambiguous and vowed to hidden ways. Those who live by that dark light will understand.

Oh Christ, if I could only have some happiness.

What a lonely species we are, searching for signals of life from other galaxies, adopting companion animals, visiting parks and zoos to commune with other beasts. In the process, we discover our shared identity.

Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul when hot for certainties in this, our life!

We don't know all the answers. If we knew all the answers we'd be bored, wouldn't we? We keep looking, searching, trying to get more knowledge.

I am trying to find myself. Sometimes that's not easy.

I turn and turn in my cell like a fly that doesn't know where to die.

I try every day and every night to find a movie or a TV show that I can watch, but I just can't make it past ten minutes of anything.

I spent my late twenties and all of my thirties figuring out what I was supposed to be doing and where my home was.

There is something I want-something I have come to get, and she fell deeper and deeper without knowing quite what it was, with her eyes closed.

We're like little puppies chasing our tails. We realize we're never getting what we want and then realize we need to do something a bit more profound.

I'm not sure what it is that I want, but I feel it deep in the pit of my stomach. It's there sitting dormant. I'll know it when I see it.

People say to me, well "What's the character you really want to play?" And I go, I don't know.

My grandmother told me heaven's rules don't just tell us what to do and not do," I said. "They tell us what God is like. People searching for God only need to look at what God says is important. I think love is important to Him. So there are rules about it. Not to make us feel bad about how far we fall short, but to show us how wonderful the real thing is.

Nowhere could I find peace.

Susurra: «Puedo encontrarte, puedo llegar hasta ti, quizá te esté observando en estos precisos instantes».

Where are you? I can still make no sense of my surroundings. Where are you?!

Where are you, Cato?

The nostalgic is looking for a spiritual addressee. Encountering silence, he looks for memorable signs, desperately misreading them.

I feel like my whole life I've been searching for what I want to do, searching for my identity as a musician and a songwriter, and my band's identity.

What I can say is that all my characters are searching for their souls, because they are my mirrors. I'm someone who is constantly trying to understand my place in the world, and literature is the best way that I found in order to see myself.

In scoring, I usually start with a sound or group of sounds, searching out what feels right.

On Planet of the Apes, I had a very knowledgeable team who knew good materials, but I had one main source person who worked online and on the street continually looking for the proper materials.