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Quotes About Seeking

Oftimes it haps, that sorrowes of the mynd Find remedie vnsought, which seeking cannot fynd.
~ Edmund Spenser
He seekes out mighty charmes , to trouble sleepy mindes.
~ Edmund Spenser
Humans are needy by design. Will we abandon the myth of independence and seek God?
~ Edward T. Welch
all which isn't singing is merely talking and all talking's talking to oneself (whether that oneself be sought or seeking master or disciple sheep or wolf)
~ ee cummings
Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable.
~ Albert Camus
We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible.
~ Albert Camus
We all try to escape pain and death, while we seek what is pleasant.
~ Albert Einstein
Have you ever seen an inchworm crawl up a leaf or a twig, and then, clinging to the very end, revolve in the air, feeling for something, to reach something That's like me. I am trying to find something out there beyond the place on which I have footing.
~ Albert P. Ryder
Todo mi ser aspira a una sola cosa: encontrar a quien yo sé, no en el sueño sino en el lugar de los cuerpos tangibles.
~ Alejandra Pizarnik
I do nothing but search and not find. That's how I waste my nights.
~ Alejandra Pizarnik
I speak of something not in this world. I speak of someone whose purpose is elsewhere.
~ Alejandra Pizarnik
All night I hear the voice of someone seeking me. All night you abandon me slowly…All night I write luminous messages, messages of rain, all night some- one checks for me and I check for someone.
~ Alejandra Pizarnik
Simone W eil has said that though a person may run as fast as he can away from Christ, if it is toward what he considers true, he runs in fact straight into the arms of Christ. Much
~ Alexander Schmemann
Which way should you run to escape this world?
~ Alexis Wright
When I was almost 13 I was ripe for religion. I was actually just plain ripe.
~ Kathie Lee Gifford
There are a lot of poems where I am questing for God. I don't think there is any finding of God.
~ Edward Hirsch
We seek the truth and will endure the consequences.
~ Charles Seymour
The sciences which take socio-historical reality as their subject matter are seeking, more intensively than ever before, their systematic relations to one another and to their foundation.
~ Wilhelm Dilthey
I arrived in Mexico seeking the peace I had not found in Europe because of the turmoil there - for me it was impossible to paint amidst so much uneasiness.
~ Remedios Varo
The very desire to seek the truth often causes people, who do not know how it should be sought correctly, to make judgements about things that they do not perceive and in that way they make mistakes.
~ Rene Descartes
Nature teaches me that so many other bodies exist around mine of which some are to be avoided, some sought after.
~ Rene Descartes
In order to seek truth, it is necessary once in the course of our life to doubt, as far as possible, of all things.
~ Rene Descartes
The natural strategic orientation of many companies is toward retaining existing customers and seeking further segmentation opportunities.
~ Renée Mauborgne
More and more, it seems to me, modern individualism assumes the form of a desperate denial of the fact that, through mimetic desire, each of us seeks to impose his will upon his fellow man, whom he
~ Rene Girard