#Search Quotes

“If circumstances lead me, I will find Where truth is hid, though it were hid indeed Within the centre.”

“I cannot often enough say, that a man is only a relative and representative nature. Each is a hint of the truth, but far enough from being that truth, which yet he quite newly and inevitably suggests to us. If I seek it in him, I shall not find it.”

“Nor seek, for this is also sooth,To hunger fiercely after truth,Lest all thy toiling only breedsNew dreams, new dreams; there is no truthSaving in thine own heart.”

“Every face, every shop, bedroom window, public-house, and dark square is a picture feverishly turned--in search of what? It is the same with books. What do we seek through millions of pages?”

“What the world's million lips are searching for, must be substantial somewhere.”

“I enjoy almost everything. Yet I have some restless searcher in me. Why is there not a discovery in life? Something one can lay hands on and say “This is it”? My depression is a harassed feeling. I’m looking: but that’s not it — that’s not it. What is it? And shall I die before I find it?”

“I have sought happiness through many ages and not found it.”

“Who are you, Nature?I live in you;for fifty years I have been seeking you,and I have not found you yet.”

“We all look for happiness, but without knowing where to find it: like drunkards who look for their house, knowing dimly that they have one.”

“I say you shall yet find the friend you were looking for.”

“After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains.”

“But where is what I started for so long ago? And why is it yet unfound?”

“Life is a search after power.”

“Every man passes his life in the search after friendship.”

“Silence is a great help to a seeker after truth like myself.”

“To find is the thing.”

“Maybe the heart is part of the mist.And that's all that there is or could ever exist.Maybe and maybe and maybe some more.Maybe's the exit that I'm looking for.”

“If you are trying to find something, it means you haven't got it. And if you find it simply by looking for it, that means it's false.”

“The devotee of truth is often obliged to grope in the dark.”

“This is what I am learning, at 82 years old: the main thing is to be in love with the search for truth.”

“Satyagraha is a relentless search for truth and a determination to search truth.”

“If you search everywhere, yet cannot find what you are seeking, it is because what you seek is already in your possession.”

“I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand.”

“I long ago lost a hound, a bay horse, and a turtle-dove, and am still on their trail. Many are the travellers I have spoken concerning them, describing their tracks and what calls they answered to. I have met one or two who had heard the hound, and the tramp of the horse, and even seen the dove disappear behind a cloud, and they seemed as anxious to recover them as if they had lost them themselves.”

“The greatest tragedy in life is to spend your whole life fishing only to discover it was never fish that you were after.”

“It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.”

“In order to find, you must first search.”

“If you wish to find, you must search. Rarely does a good idea interrupt you”

“There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something.”

“Finding is reserved for the searchers, we don't find what we need, we find what we search for”

“Unto a life which I call natural I would gladly follow even a will-o'-the-wisp through bogs and sloughs unimaginable, but no moonnor firefly has shown me the causeway to it.”

“All my life, my heart has sought a thing I cannot name. Remembered line from a long- forgotten poem”

“There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.”

“The pleasure is in the path, the search for something good.”

“She was lost in her longing to understand.”

“Fernanda, on the other hand, looked for it in vain along the paths of her everyday itinerary without knowing that the search for lost things is hindered by routine habits and that is why it is so difficult to find them.”

“I am looking for an honest man.”

“He lit a lamp in broad daylight and said, as he went about, "I am looking for a human."”

“Got to start by finding it, have we? Can't start by looking for it, I suppose?”

“My whole being was seeking for something still unknown which might confer meaning upon the banality of life.”

“Life must be somewhere to befound, instead of #‎ ConcreteJungle .”

“Money is numbers and numbers never end. If it takes money to be happy, your search for happiness will never end.”