searching

Link	Quote	Tags	Author
2e77b1e	What we seek is some kind of compensation for what we put up with.	seeking searching	Haruki Murakami
7f04704	I could be blindfolded and dropped into the deepest ocean and I would know where to find you. I could be buried a hundred miles underground and I would know where you are.	buried finding underground searching ocean	Neil Gaiman
432dfdb	Oh, gentlemen, perhaps I really regard myself as an intelligent man only because throughout my entire life I've never been able to start or finish anything. Granted, granted I'm a babbler, a harmless, irksome babbler, as we all are. But what's to be done if the sole and express purpose of every intelligent man is babble--that is, a deliberate pouring from empty into void.	philosophical-musings meaning-of-life thinking searching	Fyodor Dostoyevsky
ac3713a	No one is ever satisfied where he is....Only the children know what they're looking for....	satisfaction only-the-children the-little-prince satisfied children searching	Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
1f74416	"My mother and father were always pushing me away from secondhand answers--even the answers they themselves believed. I don't know that I have ever found any satisfactory answers of my own. But every time I ask it, the question is refined. That is the best of what the old heads meant when they spoke of being "politically conscious"--as much a series of actions as a state of being, a constant questioning, questioning as ritual, questioning as exploration rather than the search for certainty."	meaning life certainty questioning questions searching	Ta-Nehisi Coates
7b803c1	What should I possibly have to tell you, oh venerable one? Perhaps that you're searching far too much? That in all that searching, you don't find the time for finding?	searching	Hermann Hesse
48c2d82	"A great battle is a terrible thing," the old knight said, "but in the midst of blood and carnage, there is sometimes also beauty, beauty that could break your heart."	struggle true strength heartbreak hope hope-for-the-hopeless hopefulness keep-the-faith struggling george-r-r-martin warriors hardship strength-through-adversity knights searching dead	George R.R. Martin
0f68f68	When you don't know what you're searching for, you have to look absolutely everywhere.	love searching	Holly Black
d567b33	The creatures I seek do not want to be seen.	nature scientist natural-world see look find sight searching	Annie Dillard
f927496	There would be no more offerings. Not this day. Not any day. Humankind had suffered enough for its love of gods, its long search for God. He thought of the many centuries in which his people, the Jews, had negotiated with God, complaining, bickering, decrying the unfairness of things but always - always - returning to obedience at whatever the cost. Generations dying in the ovens of hatred. Future generations scarred by the cold fires of radiation and renewed hatred.	hatred suffering religion searching obedience	Dan Simmons
42df656	I kept walking. Have you ever done that? Just walk. Just walk and have no idea where you're going? It wasn't a good feeling, but not a bad one either. I felt caged and free at the same time, like it was only myself that wouldn't allow me to feel either great or miserable.	freedom walk searching	Markus Zusak
b11e4e2	And then, in a skittering, chittering rush, it came. The hand, running high on its fingertips, scrabbled through the tall grass and up onto a tree stump. It stood there for a moment, like crab tasting the air, and then it made one triumphant, nail-clacking leap onto the center of the tablecloth. Time slowed for Coraline. The white fingers closed around the black key....	the-other-mother hand fright searching	Neil Gaiman
e6f71d5	Dust off that Bible. It has the answers you are looking for, and its delights await you.	woman reading bible god love daily christian searching delight looking	Elizabeth George
2e0fc2c	Of course, she wasn't entirely certain what kind of man she should like to encourage. She knew she wanted someone respectable but not dull. Exciting but not dangerous. Strong but not overbearing. Loyal and trustworthy but not a lapdog. And this mythical paragon would love her without reservation for the rest of his days. In short, the man of her dreams would be very nearly perfect and probably did not exist. Leo said something she didn't quite catch, but she smiled and nodded nonetheless. Perhaps he was right about lowering her standards if she did indeed wish to marry.	standard searching	Victoria Alexander

What we seek is some kind of compensation for what we put up with.

Haruki Murakami

7f04704

I could be blindfolded and dropped into the deepest ocean and I would know where to find you. I could be buried a hundred miles underground and I would know where you are.

buried finding underground searching ocean

Neil Gaiman

432dfdb

Oh, gentlemen, perhaps I really regard myself as an intelligent man only because throughout my entire life I've never been able to start or finish anything. Granted, granted I'm a babbler, a harmless, irksome babbler, as we all are. But what's to be done if the sole and express purpose of every intelligent man is babble--that is, a deliberate pouring from empty into void.

philosophical-musings meaning-of-life thinking searching

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

ac3713a

No one is ever satisfied where he is....Only the children know what they're looking for....

satisfaction only-the-children the-little-prince satisfied children searching

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

1f74416

"My mother and father were always pushing me away from secondhand answers--even the answers they themselves believed. I don't know that I have ever found any satisfactory answers of my own. But every time I ask it, the question is refined. That is the best of what the old heads meant when they spoke of being "politically conscious"--as much a series of actions as a state of being, a constant questioning, questioning as ritual, questioning as exploration rather than the search for certainty."

meaning life certainty questioning questions searching

Ta-Nehisi Coates

7b803c1

What should I possibly have to tell you, oh venerable one? Perhaps that you're searching far too much? That in all that searching, you don't find the time for finding?

searching

Hermann Hesse

48c2d82

"A great battle is a terrible thing," the old knight said, "but in the midst of blood and carnage, there is sometimes also beauty, beauty that could break your heart."

struggle true strength heartbreak hope hope-for-the-hopeless hopefulness keep-the-faith struggling george-r-r-martin warriors hardship strength-through-adversity knights searching dead

George R.R. Martin

0f68f68

When you don't know what you're searching for, you have to look absolutely everywhere.

love searching

Holly Black

d567b33

The creatures I seek do not want to be seen.

nature scientist natural-world see look find sight searching

Annie Dillard

f927496

There would be no more offerings. Not this day. Not any day. Humankind had suffered enough for its love of gods, its long search for God. He thought of the many centuries in which his people, the Jews, had negotiated with God, complaining, bickering, decrying the unfairness of things but always - always - returning to obedience at whatever the cost. Generations dying in the ovens of hatred. Future generations scarred by the cold fires of radiation and renewed hatred.

hatred suffering religion searching obedience

Dan Simmons

42df656

I kept walking. Have you ever done that? Just walk. Just walk and have no idea where you're going? It wasn't a good feeling, but not a bad one either. I felt caged and free at the same time, like it was only myself that wouldn't allow me to feel either great or miserable.

freedom walk searching

Markus Zusak

b11e4e2

And then, in a skittering, chittering rush, it came. The hand, running high on its fingertips, scrabbled through the tall grass and up onto a tree stump. It stood there for a moment, like crab tasting the air, and then it made one triumphant, nail-clacking leap onto the center of the tablecloth. Time slowed for Coraline. The white fingers closed around the black key....

the-other-mother hand fright searching

Neil Gaiman

e6f71d5

Dust off that Bible. It has the answers you are looking for, and its delights await you.

woman reading bible god love daily christian searching delight looking

Elizabeth George

2e0fc2c

Of course, she wasn't entirely certain what kind of man she should like to encourage. She knew she wanted someone respectable but not dull. Exciting but not dangerous. Strong but not overbearing. Loyal and trustworthy but not a lapdog. And this mythical paragon would love her without reservation for the rest of his days. In short, the man of her dreams would be very nearly perfect and probably did not exist. Leo said something she didn't quite catch, but she smiled and nodded nonetheless. Perhaps he was right about lowering her standards if she did indeed wish to marry.

standard searching

Victoria Alexander