Searching Quotes

The shadow is dark and the woods are cold, but they are not endless. No matter how lost you are now, you are not lost forever. You are findable.Love just keeps on looking. Love is forever tries.

~ Anna White

People who fit don’t seek. The seekers are those that don’t fit.

~ Shannon L. Alder

In every problem, there's a concealed solution...locking itself underneath...unlock,peruse,find and solve.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Wonders amaze me. They can aim wanderlessly in any forest, be it of dark trees or lighted bushes. And apparently, as per what I’ve heard, they can buy stuff that’s on sale, but only if and when they feel wonderfully wonderful. Because otherwise they wouldn’t really be themselves, which would be a problem for them, because if they aren’t what they are - they can’t exist, and if they don’t exist – that makes them invisible and silent to all the wandering people, who may or may not be looking for them to sell themselves to.

~ Will Advise

i often sit and wonderi often sit and dreami often sit and waitfor the one that’s just for me i search the many facesin the crowds of people i see exploring, seeking,looking for, the one that it could be.is it Mister Blue Collar? is it Mister Too Clean? is it Mister Holy Onewhich was made for me? then i stop and thinkof the biggest catastrophe -what if this man i’m waiting fordoesn’t even recognize me?-LostInACrowd

~ N'zuri Za Austin

The search for Jesus is about reconciling loss and tragedy to God and us.

~ W. Scott Lineberry

What we’re searching for will determine where we arrive, or if we arrive. And right in the middle of such risky choices, Christmas is God perfectly solving the problem by showing us what to search for and then bringing it to us.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

I think you travel to search and you come back home to find yourself there.

~ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The Ache That Would Not LeaveBehind the hum and routine of daily living, there lay a persistent and wild longing for something she could not easily put into words. It felt like impulsive adventures and watching the sun rise over unfamiliar mountains, or coffee in a street café, set to the background music of a foreign language. It was the smell of the ocean, with dizzying seagulls whirling in a cobalt sky; exotic foods and strange faces, in a city where no one knew her name. She wanted secrets whispered at midnight, and road trips without a map, but most of all, she ached for someone who desired to explore the mysteries that lay sleeping within her. The truly heartbreaking part was that she could feel the remaining days of her life falling away, like leaves from an autumn tree, but still this mysterious person who held the key to unlock her secrets did not arrive; they were missing, and she knew not where to find them.

~ John Mark Green

For me, writing stories set, well, wherever they're best set, is a form of cultural curiosity that is uniquely Scottish - we're famous for travelling in search of adventure.

~ Sara Sheridan

Was it really some other person I was so anxious to discover...or was it only my own solitude that I could not abide?

~ David Markson

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.

~ Ta-Nehisi Coates

When a person thinks you are too good for them, they create a wall without even taking a chance. The best life that God has in store for a person is often thrown away because of what he or she thinks they deserve. True love is not the life you had, but the life you never realized you could have.

~ Shannon L. Alder

We’re all blurry-eyed wanderers of time, and the unfortunance of it all is that we’d probably all go on to do great things if only we searched for what corrected and focused our vision instead of relying on our past – life’s grand kaleidoscope – to help us find our way forward.

~ A.j. Darkholme

With God, being lost is nothing more than an idea that never has and never will be anything more than an idea.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

I have found so many angels trapped inside undisputed jargon that I find myself digging at the words, in order to release them, from the books that unfairly captured their soul.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Half of my life passed searching for the evil that makes me to do wrong things, until I found innocent evils trapped in me.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

I loved her for what I couldn't understand about her. Love searches for the mystery in the beloved, seeks the unknowable.

~ John Dufresne

Through the many years of what I thought was 'searching', was really the process of 'awakening'.

~ Ka Chinery

It can be a good thing if deeper theology, or philosophy, only makes one more uncertain. It may lead to a healthy doubt; he may throw his hands up saying, 'God, I just don't know anymore. If you're out there, I'm giving it all to you.' From there, after the surrender, he is allowing God himself, rather than theories, books, and documents, to take over and lead him into all truth.

~ Criss Jami

She walked among the stars,The princess of the heavens,Looking for the one who caught her crystal tearsThat spilled out from liquid ice blue eyes-Rolling down pale cheeks-Then sealed up tenderly...In pearl alabaster jars...

~ Kallista Pendragon

He was searching for something greater, if there is a thing greater than love, and he could not settle until he found it.

~ Nina -

The world is held together by lies. When I paint, I'm searching for the truth between them, but I'm no better at this than anyone else. Worse, probably.

~ Gareth P. Jones

Most folks don't have but a few days to a week's worth of food in their houses at any given time. When they run out, they'll have to forage. Only the fools will forage in town. The smart ones will look on the outskirts.

~ Edward M. Wolfe

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

~ Elizabeth George

And God does have a personality. He can't hide from us. His personality shines through every Hebrew letter, on every page. Sometimes we forget that God is a person--not a fleshly person, but a person nonetheless. (page iii)

~ Michael Ben Zehabe

My mother once said, 'If you come across a man with more than one personality, you can be sure he's looking for himself in one of them, because he has no character.' But I think she was wrong

~ Saud Alsanousi

If I couldn't find the trail before dark, I could wake tomorrow disoriented and desperate, without having even made any new miles; my loss of the PCT should have distressed me, but a new instinct led me forward. In this moment of despair I was refusing to stop fighting. I asked the mountains for some guidance, the strength to get myself out of here, and pulled wild power from within myself I'd never known I'd had.I was no longer following a trail.I was learning to follow myself.

~ Aspen Matis

My discontent has accumulated over the past months, searching for a leak in the dam I’ve constructed to separate my true feelings from the situation closing in around me.

~ Doug Cooper

She would search for him. In the land that lay east of the sun and west of the moon. But there was no way there.

~ Edith Pattou

During the course of your temporary hurdles, keep searching for a tad of optimism

~ Charmaine J Forde

You're not lost, so long as you know your way back home.

~ Lana M. H. Wilder

A good teacher is one, that never stops listening; a good listener is one, that never stops teaching.

~ Anthony Liccione

There is a certain kind of man who is forever searching. He wanders from place to place, he looks hard into the eyes of women and men in every town, maybe he scratches the earth or wields a gun, remedies illnesses or writes books, and there is always a vague emptiness within him. It is the emptiness that drives him and he does not know even how to name that thing that might fill it. No idea of home or love or peace comes to him. He does not know, so he cannot stop. On and on he moves. and the emptiness blinds him and pulls at him and he is like a newborn baby searching for the teat, knowing it is there, but where?And sometimes such a man is handed a gift. A gift of direction. A path that is marked for him and there, yes, this will ease your suffering, it is sure. This will cure you, it will fill you up, at least for a time. There will be a home, and love, there will no longer be the sorrow when you look at a cold night sky, the sorrow as the sun rises and the mist burns away.

~ Tara Conklin

LOVE the hideous in order to find the sublime core of it.

~ Mina Loy

When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressive creature. He becomes interesting to other people. He disturbs, upsets, enlightens, and opens ways for better understanding. Where those who are not artists are trying to close the book, he opens it and shows there are still more pages possible.

~ Robert Henri

We are always searching for a cave to fit in.

~ Debasish Mridha

Writing is a process of creating yourself again and again for an ever-searching mind.

~ Debasish Mridha

It's an easy guess, why some get famous over night and not during the day.

~ Aleksandra Ninkovic

She was a collector of reflections looking for souls that could see deeply inside her soul.

~ Shannon L. Alder