Searching Quotes

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I realized that searching was my symbol, the emblem of those who go out at night with nothing in mind, the motives of a destroyer… — Julio Cortazar
I detest the idea that love between two persons can lead to salvation. All my life I have fought against this oppressive type of relationship.… — Rainer Werner Fassbinder
A good social system is not to be secured by making people unselfish, but, by making their own vital impulses fit in with other peoples.… — Bertrand Russell
This is the greatest gift God can give you: to understand what happened in your life. To have it explained. It is the peace you… — Mitch Albom
A curtain of stars, miles of them, are scattered, glowing, across the sky and their multitude humbles me, which I have a hard time tolerating.… — Bret Easton Ellis
The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only… — M. Scott Peck
I stood there in the kitchen, watching her staring across the meadow still searching for her nemesis and I thought, suddenly, that this is all… — William Boyd
Every second of the search is an encounter with God. When I have been truly searching for my treasure, every day has been luminous...I've discovered… — Paulo Coelho
Art is a kind of mining," he said. "The artist a variety of prospector searching for the sparkling silver of meaning in the earth. — Jane Urquhart
Anyone who falls in love is searching for the missing pieces of themselves. So anyone who's in love gets sad when they think of their… — Haruki Murakami
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. — Sarah Dessen
We are, all of us, exploring a world none of us understands...searching for a more immediate, ecstatic, and penetrating mode of living...for the integrity, the… — Hillary Clinton
Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect. — Gloria Steinem
Ordinary life does not interest me. I seek only the high moments. I am in accord with the surrealists, searching for the marvelous. I want… — Anais Nin
If you are searching for sacred knowledge and not just a palliative for your fears, then you will train yourself to be a good skeptic. — Ann Druyan
History is the narrative of people searching for a place to go. — J. R. Moehringer
Everything in this life passes away — only God remains, only He is worth struggling towards. We have a choice: to follow the way of… — Seraphim Rose
Sometimes that mountain you've been climbing is just a grain of sand, and what you've been up there searching for forever, is in your hands.… — Carrie Underwood
Without you in my arms, I feel an emptiness in my soul. I find myself searching the crowds for your face - I know it's… — Nicholas Sparks
Her life was a slow realization that the world was not for her and that for whatever reason she would never be happy and honest… — Jonathan Safran Foer
This is the only country in the world," said Wednesday, into the stillness, "that worries about what it is." "What?" "The rest of them know… — Neil Gaiman
All right, then, her first rule for the rest of her days: no more looking outside for definitions. She might not have any clue who… — J R Ward
But wise is the man who disdains no character, but with searching glance explores him to the root and cause of all. — Nikolai Gogol
...when you are convinced that all the exits are blocked, either you take to believing in miracles or you stand still like the hummingbird. The… — Henry Miller
One keeps searching for ease, she did not say, and not finding it, till the memories of no-pain seem only like daydreams. — Robin McKinley

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