Quotes About Searching

You don't want a million answers as much as you want a few forever questions. The questions are diamonds you hold in the light. Study a lifetime and you see different colors from the same jewel. The same questions, asked again, bring you just the answers you need just the minute you need them.

Their future was America and three long years of searching and a process of gradual character disintegration and a slow retreat from respectability and self-pride. In three years they would become what they had always despised.

Stop searching. Face the earth where you can. Literally speaking, it's all you have to go on.

Beware of finding what you're looking for. [ A favorite aphorism he often used .]

So where the fuck are you, Isaac? I can hear your breathing, I just need to see you so I can stop it.

Por eso uno se roe las uñas en la imposibilidad de hallar la paz en el simple latido del corazón; consume cigarrillos porque no está satisfecho con el ritmo de su propio cerebro; uno tiene que hacer temblar su cuerpo al no encontrar la satisfacción tan sólo en el sexo.

Some people are born with a hole inside them. They spend their lives trying to fill it. Sometimes it's pills, sometimes it's Jesus.

Her birthday was yesterday, August twentieth. Why had Laura said that she was born in January? 6 Andy drove up and down what seemed like the city of Carrollton's main drag.

slowing the car, peering through the trees, on the lookout for

Viola felt as if she spent her life wading through a sea of ignorance, shallow but without a shore in sight.

Even though Eve ate the fruit first, God went looking for Adam. It had been Adam whom God had revealed himself to as LORD God in the context of giving Adam divine instruction.

He is like a man using a candle to look for the sun

How many times must a man look up, before he can see the sky?

Psychologists are men with nothing in their own minds, searching in the minds of others for an idea-in order to kill it.

Like some helpful person (hi, Mom) has tried to "'clean'" it, and suddenly you can't find anything?

Today is made of yesterday, each time I steal toward rites I do not know, waiting for the lost ingredient, as if salt or money or even lust would keep us calm and prove us whole at last.

Come morning I found the day as I have found every other day--without relief or explanation.

One word I had throughout the first year and a half of my mother's death was 'unmoored.' I felt that I had no anchor, that I had no home in the world.

Once a person stops searching for information and self-knowledge, ignorance sets in.

I kept thinking there's bound to be something else? I could hear it sometimes, but I couldn't play it.

Those characters are forever searchingeven if we're not watching them, they're out there, in some dimension. Mulder and Scully are still doing their thing, because that's their nature.

Searching nature I taste self but at one tankard, that of my own being.

In a time where everyone is searching for success, it's easy for other so called entrepreneurs to live off them because they haven't learned patience when it comes to money.

That peace which is within us, we must experience it. And if we are searching for peace outside we will never find the peace within.