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Seeking Quotes (page 36)

Marcel Proust quote: "The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands..."
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands but seeing with new eyes. Marcel Proust
They dispute not in order to find or even to seek Truth, but for victory, and to appear the more learned and strenuous upholders of a contrary opinion. Such persons should be avoided by all who have not a good breastplate of patience. Giordano Bruno
He had fought back with every weapon in his arsenal, being alternatively obtuse, evasive and pedantic, for it was wonderful how you could obscure an emotional issue by appearing to seek precision. J. K. Rowling
What we have to discover is that there is no safety, that seeking is painful, and that when we imagine that we have found it, we don’t like it. Alan Watts
If gratitude and esteem are good foundations of affection, Elizabeth's change of sentiment will be neither improbable nor faulty. But if otherwise--if regard springing from such sources is unreasonable or unnatural, in comparison of what is so often described as arising on a first interview with its object, and even before two words have been exchanged, nothing can be said in her defence, except that she had given somewhat of a trial to the latter method in her partiality for Wickham, and... Jane Austen
Feelings of longing seemed to burst from her heart; they ran in all directions, like streams of blood, seeking out paths to all the places in the wide landscape where she had lived, to all her sons roaming through the world, to all her dead lying under the earth. Sigrid Undset
Luck is a goddess not to be coerced and forcibly wooed by those who seek her favours. From such masterful spirits she turns away. But it happens sometimes that, if we put our hand in hers with the humble trust of a little child, she will have pity on us, and not fail us in our hour of need. P. G. Wodehouse
Jerott’s eyes and Philippa’s met. ‘When I meet my friend,’ said Jerott Blyth carefully, ‘there is likely to be a detonation which will take the snow off Mont Blanc. I advise you to seek other auspices. Philippa, I think we should go down below.’ ‘To swim?’ said that unprepossessing child guilelessly. ‘I can stand on my head.’ ‘Oh, Christ,’ said Jerott morosely. ‘Why in hell did you come?’ The brown eyes within the damp, dun-coloured hair inspected him narrowly. ‘Because you need a... Dorothy Dunnett
Blaise Pascal quote: "Men seek rest in a struggle against difficulties; and when..."
Men seek rest in a struggle against difficulties; and when they have conquered these, rest becomes insufferable. Blaise Pascal
He imagined the pain of the world to be like some formless parasitic being seeking out the warmth of human souls wherein to incubate and he thought he knew what made one liable to its visitations. What he had not known was that it was mindless and so had no way to know the limits of those souls and what he feared was that there might be no limits. Cormac McCarthy
William Blake quote: "Never seek to tell thy love; Love that never told can be. For..."
Never seek to tell thy love; Love that never told can be. For the gentle wind does move silently.. invisibly. William Blake
Edith Hamilton quote: "He drew iron tears down Pluto's cheek and make Hell grant what..."
He drew iron tears down Pluto's cheek and make Hell grant what Love did seek. Edith Hamilton
Power feminism is just another scam in which women get to play patriarchs and pretend that the power we seek and gain liberates us. Bell Hooks
Charles Seymour quote: "We shall seek the truth and endure the consequences."
We shall seek the truth and endure the consequences. Charles Seymour
But with this woman it is as if there is no interior, only a surface across which I hunt back and forth seeking entry. Is this how her torturers felt hunting their secret, whatever they thought it was? For the first time I feel a dry pity for them: how natural a mistake to believe that you can burn or tear or hack your way into the secret body of the other! The girl lies in my bed, but there is no good reason why it should be a bed. I behave in some ways like a lover—I undress her, I bathe... J. M. Coetzee

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