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Quotes About Searching

You will spend years in hopeless traveling, searching, and all for nothing! Find a place to live, learn peace instead. Forget the stars.
~ Catherine Fisher
If there's some hidden part of me that thinks like that, I'd rather not go searching for it.
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde
Questioned where it was hiding. Maybe it was because he
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde
If there's some hidden part of me that thinks like that, I'd rather not go searching for it." - Nathan
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde
It's hard to find a particular place when you don't one hundred percent know you're even looking for it,
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde
When you are this hungry, you cannot even remember who you used to be, she whispered. Who you might have been, if not for the hunger.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
It's the Sea of Restlessness," he said. "Fills you up with go go go, like you're a bowl full of reaching and wanting but you don't know what you're reaching and wanting for.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Ik sta op de rand der wereld en roep: 'Waar zijt Gij?' De echo antwoordt: 'Zijt gij? Gij?
~ Gerard Reve
You are all a lost generation.
~ Gertrude Stein
I had no answers, just a never-ending list of questions that I scrawled out until my hand ached, knowing I was searching for a loophole that increasingly felt like a noose.
~ Gina Buonaguro
Nella vita ci sono cose che ti cerchi e altre che ti vengono a cercare. Non le hai scelte e nemmeno le vorresti, ma arrivano e dopo non sei più uguale. A quel punto le soluzioni sono due: o scappi cercando di lasciarrele alle spalle o ti fermi e le affronti
~ Giorgio Faletti
Un borracho busca bajo un farol la llave que ha perdido: un transeúnte caritativo se ofrece para ayudar al pobre achispado a encontrar la llave perdida. Al cabo de un buen rato de buscar sin éxito alguno la llave bajo el farol, el señor compasivo, algo fastidiado, dirigiéndose al borracho le pregunta: "Pero, ¿está usted seguro de haberla perdido aquí?" Y el otro replica: "No, pero es que donde la he perdido está muy oscuro para buscarla"» (Nardone 1988, p. 154).
~ Giorgio Nardone
And I read hundreds and thousands of books, day and night, always awake and always eager to seek health. But in no book I found what I was looking for. Then, shut up in my parents' house, I thought and suffered for hundreds and thousands of hours, always awake and always mindful of the tremendous anxiety of health. But I still have not found what I was looking for.
~ Giovanni Papini
Nelle scuole abbiamo […] l'immobilità dello spirito obbligato a ripetere invece che a cercare.
~ Giovanni Papini
I was still searching for someone to blame for my suffering. I really wanted someone to transfer my hate to, so that I could stop hating myself.
~ Glenn Beck
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
~ Golda Meir
Where's the lamb sauce?!
~ Gordon Ramsay
But my heart is a lonely hunter that hunts on a lonely hill.
~ Fiona MacLeod (William Sharp)
Humans have forgotten so much... It's so easy for us to live now that our lives have no meaning. So we start looking for something else, something more. Money. A bigger house. A hobby. Church.
~ Abby Geni, The Wildlands, 2018
He is searching for an answer for which no question exists.
~ Jacqueline Carey
Only by much searching and mining are gold and diamonds obtained, and you can find every truth connected with your being, if you will dig deep into the mine of your soul.
~ James Allen
Only by much searching and mining are gold and diamonds obtained, and man can find every truth connected with his being, if he will dig deep into the mine of his soul. That he is the maker of his character, the molder of his life, and the builder of his destiny, he may unerringly prove, if he will watch, control, and alter his thoughts
~ James Allen
But it was not the room's disorder which was frightening; it was the fact that when one began searching for the key to this disorder, one realized that it was not to be found in any of the usual places. For this was not a matter of habit or circumstance or temperament; it was a matter of punishment and grief.
~ James Baldwin
his eyes, behind his glasses, were like the eyes of a dying a man who looks everywhere for healing.
~ James Baldwin