
“Those who look for seashells will find seashells; those who open them will find pearls.”
Five to Twelve (1968)
“Those who look for seashells will find seashells; those who open them will find pearls.”
Have You a Hobby?, Answers, 21 April 1934
Reproduced in The Collected Essays of Sir Winston Churchill, Vol IV, Churchill at Large, Centenary Edition (1976), Library of Imperial History, p. 288. ISBN 0903988453
The 1930s
“Death hastens those who hasten death.”
Part 5, “Night of Cinnabar” - Chapter 1 (p. 217)
A Door into Ocean (1986)
“Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it.”
“Death has his favorites, like anyone. Those who are beloved of Death will not die.”
Source: The Coldest Girl in Coldtown
“Those who have crossed
With direct eyes, to death's other Kingdom
Remember us”
if at all — not as lost
Violent souls, but only
As the hollow men
The stuffed men.
The Hollow Men (1925)
reprinted in 'Zero', ed. Otto Piene and Heinz Mack, Cambridge, Mass; MIT Press 1973, p. 119
Quotes, 1960's, untitled statements in 'Zero 3', (1961)