(626 quotes found)
“The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.”
Walker Percy
“And behold you were within me,and I out of myself, and there I searched for you.”
Saint Augustine
“I'm an ocean, because I'm really deep. If you search deep enough you can find rare exotic treasures.”
Christina Aguilera
“In search of my mother's garden, I found my own.”
Alice Walker
“The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes "sight-seeing."”
Daniel J. Boorstin
“Since I grew tired of the chaseAnd search, I learned to find;And since the wind blows in my face,I sail with every wind.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“There is no fury like a woman searching for a new lover”
Cyril Connolly
“Errors like straws upon the surface flow: Who would search for pearls must dive below”
John Dryden
“Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That's the way the mind of man operates.”
Henry Louis Mencken
“It is a shameful thing to be weary of inquiry when what we search for is excellent”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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