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Quotes About Searching

Do you see how you hurt me, baby? So I hurt you too. Then we both get so blue. I am on a lonely road and I am traveling, looking for the key to set me free.
~ Joni Mitchell
There is no fury like a woman searching for a new lover
~ Cyril Connolly
They say true love only comes around once and you have to hold out and be strong until then. I have been waiting. I have been searching. I am a man under the moon, walking the streets of earth until dawn. There's got to be someone for me. It's not too much to ask. Just someone to be with. Someone to love. Someone to give everything to. Someone.
~ Henry Rollins
Marriage is miserable unless you find the right person that is your soulmate and that takes a lot of looking.
~ Marvin Gaye
While looking for our place, we miss our calling. Looking under rocks for gold, while we should have been plucking stars.
~ Unknown
Captain Azia," he said, introducing himself. "The entire Dalbreck army has been searching for you…" Something about his expression was all wrong. And then falling down on one knee, he added, "Your Majesty.
~ Mary E. Pearson
It was in the in-between time when he felt lost.
~ Unknown
Every morning I watched the sun rise and read a highly religious little meditation book and tried having a conversation with God. I waited for that sense of the presence of a Higher Power that I'd heard of. I chastised myself for not being open to real spiritual experience. It was one of the loneliest things I've ever done.
~ Marya Hornbacher
Searching for the scent of the early plum, I found it by the eaves Of a proud storehouse.
~ Matsuo Bash?
But you will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life,' he said, wisely. 'You're quoting
~ Matt Haig
Me sentaba a la luz de la mesita de noche para leer durante unas dos horas después de que Andrea se hubiera dormido, hasta que los ojos se me secaban y dolían, siempre buscando y sin encontrar nunca nada, pero con esa sensación de tenerlo casi al alcance de la mano.
~ Matt Haig
When you go looking for something specific, your chances of finding it are very bad. Because of all the things in the world, you're only looking for one of them. When you go looking for anything at all, your chances of finding it are very good.
~ Matt Taibbi
Theology recognizes the contingency of human existence only to derive it from a necessary being, that is, to remove it. Theology makes use of philosophical wonder only for the purpose of motivating an affirmation which ends it. Philosophy, on the other hand, arouses us to what is problematic in our own existence and in that of the world, to such a point that we shall never be cured of searching for a solution.
~ Maurice Merleau-Ponty
But I've been walking through the night and the dayTill my eyes get weary and my head turns grey,And sometimes it seems maybe God's gone away,Forgetting the promise that we heard him say—And we're lost out here in the stars—
~ Maxwell Anderson
Nepovratno se ose?am kao besku?nik. Nije to sasvim loše, nemam obaveza ni ograni?enja, samo je pomalo prazno. Svejedno mi je kuda ?u po?i kada završim posao. Uvijek sam želio tu potpunu slobodu, a nikud ne polazim, nijednu mogu?nost ne iskoriš?ujem, niti zapravo znam kakve su. Hodamo bez cilja, tražimo se, a kad se na?emo, govorimo o ratu.
~ Meša Selimovi?
Šta to tražimo u tu?oj zemlji, osim svoje i tu?e nesre?e.
~ Meša Selimovi?
When your mom is gone, the thing no one ever tells you is that the little compass needle inside keeps spinning around and around, never finingt North.
~ Megan Abbott
This is my new hobby. I watch my life depart minute by minute. I anticipate the end of everything and anything—a conversation, a class, track practice, darkness—only to be left with more clock-watching to take its place. I'm continually waiting for something better that never comes. Maybe it would help if I knew what I wanted.
~ Megan McCafferty
is difficult to be a patient for long without coming up against the hard truth that what you are searching for and what your doctor is offering are two entirely different things.
~ Meghan O'Rourke
I'm scared I'm going to spend the rest of my life in a state of yearning, regardless of where I am.
~ Melina Marchetta
I didn't make this plan. I just wake up sometimes and want to crawl out of my life.
~ Unknown
Statistics show this isn't a reasonable incentive. According to the website Publishing Explained, more than one million manuscripts are currently searching for a U.S. publisher. One percent of these will get the nod. Nor
~ Unknown
The belief that there are other life forms in the universe is a matter of faith. There is not a single shred of evidence for any other life forms, and in forty years of searching, none has been discovered. There is absolutely no evidentiary reason to maintain this belief.
~ Michael Crichton
Answers are temporary things, Anne", he had said. "There will always be more questions.
~ Unknown