alone with everybody the flesh covers the bone and they put a mind in there and sometimes a soul, and the women break vases against the walls and them men drink too much and nobody finds the one but they keep looking crawling in and out of beds. flesh covers the bone and the flesh searches for more than flesh. there's no chance at all: we are all trapped by a singular fate. nobody ever finds the one. the city dumps fill the junkyards fill the madhouses fill the hospitals fill the graveyards fill nothing else fills.
They are looking in utter darkness for that which has no existence whatsoever.
Everyone’s competing for a love they won't receive.
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.
Hunt half a day for a forgotten dream.
To seek in a Sheep five feet when there is but four.
The mole is an animal that digs passages searching for the sun. Sometimes he reaches the surface. When he looks at the sun he goes blind.
When I hear of an 'equity' in a case like this, I am reminded of a blind man in a dark room - looking for a black hat - which isn't there.
She wondered if she was doomed to be one of those people who spend their lives trying things.
I was constantly searching for something and you kid yourself that someone out there has got that secret to batting that they can give you one piece of advice that will enable you to go and score a hundred every time. It is silly. By trying to learn I confused myself.
Power might feel tasty and good in the moment, but it will never be satisfying, never fill you up. Yep, no matter how much power you get, you will always feel empty. You just keep wanting more and more power.
Happiness, I do not know where to turn to discover you on earth, in the air or the sky; yet I know you exist and are no futile dream.
Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice. His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff: you shall seek all day ere you find them, and when you have them, they are not worth the search.
It is good to be tired and wearied by the futile search after the true good, that we may stretch out our arms to the Redeemer.
And if you find everything as soon as you look for it, you find it in vain, you look for it in vain.
Looking for the perfect day is not going to make us happy, because that day isn't going to come.
Why look in the dark for light?
You'll never find your gold on a sandy beach.
I know you're looking for a ruby in a mountain of rocks, but there ain't no Coupe de Ville hiding at the bottom of a Cracker Jack Box.
That old rock and roll song, "looking for love in all the wrong places," it's true.
With each step my heart broke for the person I would never find, the person who'd love me.
Away with the one who is always seeking, for he never finds anything; for he is seeking where nothing can be found. Away with the one who is always knocking, for he knocks where there is no one to open; away with the one who is always asking, for he asks of one who does not hear.
Geez, I should stop ruining my life searching for answers I'm never gonna get, and just enjoy it while it lasts.
The idea that bigger haystacks have more needles in them is dumb on its face
People throw away what they could have by insisting on perfection, which they cannot have, and looking for it where they will never find it.
