Quotes about searching
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The Royal Road to Romance (1925).
Context: Youth -- nothing else worth having in the world... and I had youth, the transitory, the fugitive, now, completely and abundantly. Yet what was I going to do with it? Certainly not squander its gold on the commonplace quest for riches and respectability, and then secretly lament the price that had to be paid for these futile ideals. Let those who wish have their respectability -- I wanted freedom, freedom to indulge in whatever caprice struck my fancy, freedom to search in the farthermost corners of the earth for the beautiful, the joyous and the romantic.
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Variant: Life is more manageable when thought of as a scavenger hunt as opposed to a surprise party.
Source: One Hundred Years of Solitude
“Often in the search for your destiny you will find yourself obliged to change direction”
“If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday.”
Source: The Piper's Son
Nobel lecture (8 December 1980)
Context: Only if we assume that a poet constantly strives to liberate himself from borrowed styles in search for reality, is he dangerous. In a room where people unanimously maintain a conspiracy of silence, one word of truth sounds like a pistol shot. And, alas, a temptation to pronounce it, similar to an acute itching, becomes an obsession which doesn't allow one to think of anything else. That is why a poet chooses internal or external exile. It is not certain, however, that he is motivated exclusively by his concern with actuality. He may also desire to free himself from it and elsewhere, in other countries, on other shores, to recover, at least for short moments, his true vocation — which is to contemplate Being.
Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
Source: The Notebook
Variant: I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It's all a question of how I view my life.
Source: Eleven Minutes (2003), p. 37.
“Oh, I don't read. I skulk about in search of quotations that might make me appear educated.”
Source: A Fatal Waltz
“I think you travel to search and you come back home to find yourself there.”
http://uzomediangr.com/tag/chimamanda-ngozi-adichie-quotes, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes
“I'd been staring at the search term for at least five minutes. One
word. Necromancer.”
Source: The Summoning
“We must leave this terrifying place to-morrow and go searching for sunshine.”
“A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.”
Winter, 1931-1932
Diary entries (1914 - 1974)
Source: The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934
Variant translation: If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth, by which no one ever was truly harmed. Harmed is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance.
VI, 21
Source: Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book VI
“…In the end we are all just searching for truth, that which is greater than ourselves.”
Source: Angels & Demons
Source: A Kiss in Time
Source: Tempt Me at Twilight
1880s, 1880, Letter to Theo (Cuesmes, July 1880)
Source: The Letters of Vincent van Gogh
Context: I must continue to follow the path I take now. If I do nothing, if I study nothing, if I cease searching, then, woe is me, I am lost. That is how I look at it — keep going, keep going come what may.
But what is your final goal, you may ask. That goal will become clearer, will emerge slowly but surely, much as the rough draught turns into a sketch, and the sketch into a painting through the serious work done on it, through the elaboration of the original vague idea and through the consolidation of the first fleeting and passing thought.
Source: Innovation and Entrepreneurship: Practice and Principles
Variant: He was a Frenchman, a melancholy-looking man. His aspect was that of one who has been looking for the leak in a gas pipe with a lighted candle.
Source: The Man Upstairs and Other Stories
Source: My Name Is Memory
Source: Hidden Talents
Room Full Of Mirrors
Song lyrics, Rainbow Bridge (1971)
Context: I used to live in a room full of mirrors,
All I could see was me.
Then I take my spirit and I smash my mirrors,
And now the whole world is here for me to see,
Now I'm searching for my love to be.
Independence Day address (1821)
Context: America, in the assembly of nations, since her admission among them, has invariably, though often fruitlessly, held forth to them the hand of honest friendship, of equal freedom, of generous reciprocity. She has uniformly spoken among them, though often to heedless and often to disdainful ears, the language of equal liberty, of equal justice, and of equal rights. She has, in the lapse of nearly half a century, without a single exception, respected the independence of other nations while asserting and maintaining her own. She has abstained from interference in the concerns of others, even when conflict has been for principles to which she clings, as to the last vital drop that visits the heart. She has seen that probably for centuries to come, all the contests of that Aceldama the European world, will be contests of inveterate power, and emerging right. Wherever the standard of freedom and Independence has been or shall be unfurled, there will her heart, her benedictions and her prayers be. But she goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own. She will commend the general cause by the countenance of her voice, and the benignant sympathy of her example. She well knows that by once enlisting under other banners than her own, were they even the banners of foreign independence, she would involve herself beyond the power of extrication, in all the wars of interest and intrigue, of individual avarice, envy, and ambition, which assume the colors and usurp the standard of freedom. The fundamental maxims of her policy would insensibly change from liberty to force. The frontlet on her brows would no longer beam with the ineffable splendor of freedom and independence; but in its stead would soon be substituted an imperial diadem, flashing in false and tarnished lustre the murky radiance of dominion and power. She might become the dictatress of the world; she would be no longer the ruler of her own spirit.... Her glory is not dominion, but liberty. Her march is the march of the mind. She has a spear and a shield: but the motto upon her shield is, Freedom, Independence, Peace. This has been her Declaration: this has been, as far as her necessary intercourse with the rest of mankind would permit, her practice.
Source: Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays
Source: El Laberinto de la Soledad
Source: The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop: A Memoir, a History
Source: One Hundred Years of Solitude
“Nothing is so hard that it can't be found by searching.”
Source: White Witch, Black Curse
Source: Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (1985), Chapter 18:
Source: Song of Myself
“I have abandoned my search for truth and am now looking for a good fantasy”
Source: The Darkest Night
Source: Profiles of the Future: An Inquiry into the Limits of the Possible
“Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for.”
Source: Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now
Source: Millie's Fling
“Stop the Madness,” Interview with Rupert Cornwell, Toronto Globe and Mail (6 July 2002) (see http://wist.info/galbraith-john-kenneth/7463/ )
“I abandon myself to the fever of dreams, in search for new laws.”
Source: Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom
“I've found that when one us searching for danger, it's never hard to find.”
Source: The Hidden Oracle