Quotes About Searching

Through searching out origins, one becomes a crab. The historian looks backwards, and finally he also believes backwards.

There's this way that photography is always about going out searching. I'm not the kind of a photographer who can photograph my home.

I was studying American politicians who were searching - allegedly - for American communists because it would put them on the front pages of the papers in their home towns.

She did not know where her home was anymore, and this idea didn't frighten her like it should. - Bohemian Grove

I'm not sure what I'm trying to say, it could be that I've lost my way.

All of humanity is searching for truth, justice, and beauty.

Humanity does not know where to go because no one is waiting for it: not even God.

I'm always hunting and prowling. I'm sure Brian [Bath] was exaggerating!

It's a lot easier to be lost than found. It's the reason we're always searching and rarely discovered--so many locks not enough keys.

Interviewing is tough, especially if you don't know what you're looking for.

If we become increasingly humble about how little we know, we may be more eager to search.

Don't be someone that searches, finds and then runs away.

There is so much hurt in this game of searching for a mate, of testing, trying. And you realize suddenly that you forgot it was a game, and turn away in tears.

Philosophers are never happy here. Now is not their time, and here is not their space. They live there, they live somewhere else.

I went searching in a foreign land and found my way home.

I lean back, as the evening darkens and comes on.A chicken hawk floats over, looking for home.I have wasted my life.

My love life since I moved to New York from Chicago has been like a desert. I've had tiny little interactions of love, like finding shallow pools of water to drink from, and then I've moved on, hoping that I've stored enough love and affection and excitement to get me to the next place.

I don't know what 'ought' to be.

after all your talk of food … you're still hungry after all your talk of clothes … you're still cold eating rice is what fills your belly wearing clothes is what keeps you warm without really thinking it through you grumble that the way to find Buddha is difficult look inside your heart … there's Buddha don't look for him outside your self —HAN SHAN, The View from Cold Mountain

Sometimes I couldn't figure it out, what all the living was for.

Little soul, you have wandered lost a long time.

We are constantly swimming towards what we think is the shore, what we think will be the answer to the problem, whether it be a new love affair, the cure for an illness, a way to stay young or the reward of heaven.

When love is lonely, its because you have not found the love of your love. Even though you are being love.

If I told you I've worked hard to get where I'm at, I'd be lying, because I have no idea where I am right now.