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“I have survived. I am here. Confused, screwed up, but here. So, how can I find my way? Is there a chain saw of the soul, an ax I can take to my memories or fears?”

— Laurie Halse Anderson

“Frankly though, bud, your criteria for what constitutes a good date is kinda skewed, if you ask me. Homemade cookies are overrated man
trust me on this. You can find a decent bakery just about anywhere you go.”

— Susan Andersen

“Everyone is looking for the answer. They do not want to find the answer, trust me. Unfortunately, the answer will find them. Life-it's like one of those unpleasant nature documentaries. To be the cameraman instead of the subjects, eh?”

— Laird Barron

“In these countless stars, in their clusters and colors and constellations, in the "shooting" showers of blazing dust and ice, we have always found beauty. And in this beauty, the overwhelming size of the universe has seemed less ominous, earth's own beauty more incredible. If indeed the numbers and distances of the night sky are so large that they become nearly meaningless, then let us find the meaning under our feet.”

— Paul Bogard

“Time often is forgiving and dismissive of the influences, because they recede. We look at Sgt. Pepper and we go "wow! How did they ever think that up?" but of course, if you got into Paul McCartney's bedroom, found his record collection at the time, you would find out. But the clues are gone. It's like evolution: there are certain pure situations that hang around longer, but the ones that got them there don't have time to leave fossils. We have a giraffe, we have a horse. But where's the horse with the long neck? The link species disappear.”

— Michka Assayas

“You think we're going to find that chip?" "No. I personally think we're going to die."
-Shahara & Syn”

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

“Nothing, in truth, can ever replace a lost companion. Old comrades cannot be manufactured. There is nothing that can equal the treasure of so many shared memories, so many bad times endured together, so many quarrels, reconciliations, heartfelt impulses. Friendships like that cannot be reconstructed. If you plant an oak, you will hope in vain to sit soon under its shade.
For such is life. We grow rich as we plant through the early years, but then come the years when time undoes our work and cuts down our trees. One by one our comrades deprive us of their shade, and within our mourning we always feel now the secret grief of growing old.
If I search among my memories for those whose taste is lasting, if I write the balance sheet of the moments that truly counted, I surely find those that no fortune could have bought me. You cannot buy the friendship of a companion bound to you forever by ordeals endured together.”

— Antoine De Saint-Exupéry

“Here you find us sitting on a field of victory, amid the plunder of armies, and you wonder how we came by a few well-earned comforts!”

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“Children's books: Every time you find the right, the necessary, book for a child - a book about sadness overcome, unfairness battled, hearts mended - you perform the best kind of magic ... every time you give just the right book to just the right child, you're saying, "You, my friend, have potential." That is a gift. That is a miracle. And that is what you do, each of you, every single day.”

— Katherine Applegate

“All your life an unattainable ecstasy has hovered just beyond the grasp of your consciousness. The day is coming when you will wake to find, beyond all hope, that you have attained it, or else, that it was within your reach and you have lost it forever.”

— C.S. Lewis

“I'm a very private person. I find it very daunting to have to give private parts of myself away to people, you know?”

— Emily Browning

“I didn't expect to find much visible trace of the American war in Vietnam. The Vietnamese are too hard-bitten to dwell on it, and they've sanded away all but the outcroppings of history - the museums, the memorials.”

— Evan Osnos

“I needed to carve out my own place and find out what I was going to do.”

— Rosanne Cash

“No, Tiny. Words. Passion. The danger of falling in love is you mistakenly believe the loved one is the only source of passion in your life. But there is passion everywhere. In music. In words. In the stories you tell and the stories you see. Find passion everywhere, and share it widely. Don't narrow it down to one thin line.”

— David Levithan

“The therapists told you that you needed to find happiness within yourself before you got it from another person.”

— Ned Vizzini

“We forget more than we remember, we lose more than we find.”

— Marty Rubin

“This is where I go, when I go:
It's a room with no windows and no doors, and walls that are thin enough for me to see and hear everything but too thick to break through.
I'm there, but I'm not there.
I am pounding to be let out, but nobody can hear me.
This is where I go, when I go:
To a country where everyone's face looks different from mine, and the language is the act of not speaking, and noise is everywhere in the air we breathe. I am doing what the Romans do in Rome; I am trying to communicate, but no one has bothered to tell me that these people cannot hear.
This is where I go, when I go:
Somewhere completely, unutterably orange.
This is where I go, when I go:
To the place where my body becomes a piano full of black keys only-the sharps and the flats, when everyone know that to play a song other people want to hear, you need some white keys.
This is why I come back:
To find those white keys.”

— Jodi Picoult

“It's the story of New York. Storefronts change and languages change, but at the end of the day, people come here to find opportunity like my family did.”

— Sal Albanese

“In the back of my mind was the constant hankering, almost yearning, to write but something always stopped me in my tracks. Or if I did find my way to put a pen to paper or finger on a keyboard I'd give up after a few minutes. I'd find other things to do: Anything but writing.”

— Mary Garden

“There is nothing is more musical than a sunset. He who feels what he sees will find no more beautiful example of development in all that book which, alas, musicians read but too little - the book of Nature.”

— Claude Debussy

“His scorn of humanity grew by what it fed on; he realized in fact that the world is mostly made up of solemn humbugs and silly idiots.There was no room for doubt; he could entertain no hope of discovering in another the same aspirations and the same antipa- thies, no hope of joining forces with a mind that, like his own, should find its satisfaction in a life of studious idleness; no hope of uniting a keen and doctrinaire spirit such as his, with that of a writer and a man of learning.”

— Joris-Karl Huysmans

“I find that easier to accept than this all happened out of nothing.”

— Dwight Schultz

“I would love to find myself in a position where I have to decide, 'Gosh, do I want to be on a series?'”

— Wil Wheaton

“Without you in my arms, I feel an emptiness in my soul. I find myself searching the crowds for your face - I know it's an impossibility, but I cannot help myself.”

— Nicholas. Sparks

“Absolutely father knows best, always do what your fathers say, and if you can't find one then just ask me, I am a father and I know best.”

— Rainn Wilson

“If you're teaching, say, physics, there's no point in persuading a student that you're right. You want to encourage them to find out what the truth is, which is probably that you're wrong.”

— Noam Chomsky

“You hear about actors being late and all that sort of stuff, but you never find that with an actor who's directed, because an actor who's directed understands all the problems your production is going through.”

— Clint Eastwood

“This boy has negative charisma. He walks into a room and the oxygen starts to evaporate. I guess that's why girls sleep with him. They find his awfulness transfixing. He's like a lousy 1970's disaster movie that they can't bring themselves to turn off, even though it is making their life worse every minute they leave it on.”

— Emma Forrest

“Once you start talking to people, you find out there's a lot more wrestling fans than you think there are.”

— John Darnielle

“I returned from my last L.A. visit to find myself tipping the scales like Homer Simpson when he tries to gain enough weight to qualify as disabled to be allowed to work from home. All I was missing was his kaftan and Fat Guy Hat. So, I decided it was time to diet.”

— John Niven

“In these dark rooms I pass
such listless days, I wander up and down
looking for the windows - when a window opens
there will be some relief.
But there are no windows, or at least
I cannot find them. And perhaps it's just as well.
Perhaps the light would prove another torment.
Who knows what new things it would reveal?
("The Windows")”

— Constantine P. Cavafy

“When future archaeologists dig up the remains of California, they're going to find all of those gyms their scary-looking gym equipment, and they're going to assume that we were a culture obsessed with torture.”

— Douglas Coupland

“Ideologists of all kinds find a strange sort of comfort in the madness of the crowd; it confirms them in their suspicion that history, far from being made by the great mass of individuals - as Marx averred - is rather unmade by a single massive individual, a collective Other, who stands in stark contrast to you and he.”

— Will Self

“Take a good look around and you'll find people trying to mess with your mind.”

— Richard Marx

“There are a million ways to make money in the markets. The irony is that they are all very difficult to find.”

— Jack D. Schwager

“When I came back to the United States, I decided that if you could use propaganda for war, you could certainly use it for peace. And "propaganda" got to be a bad word because of the Germans using it, so what I did was to try and find some other words so we found the words "public relations".”

— Edward Bernays

“In an asana, the mind has to reach inside the body to find a quiet space until a point comes where perfect balance is felt.”

— Geeta Iyengar

“Surely these victims of the sea ... had rushed willingly down the hills to the water, only to find themselves caught in the wrong place at the wrong time. Who should judge whether they were there for the wrong reason?”

— John Rousmaniere

“You'll find out that nothing that comes easy is worth a dime. As a matter of fact, I never saw a football player make a tackle with a smile on his face. Never.”

— Woody Hayes

“I find it hard to see how my northern cousins could get so worked up about counties created by British imperialists.”

— Colm O'Rourke

“If I tell you something, you will stick to it and limit your own capacity to find out for yourself.”

— Shunryu Suzuki

“A layman will no doubt find it hard to understand how pathological disorders of the body and mind can be eliminated by 'mere' words. He will feel that he is being asked to believe in magic. And he will not be so very wrong, for the words which we use in our everyday speech are nothing other than watered-down magic. But we shall have to follow a roundabout path in order to explain how science sets about restoring to words a part at least of their former magical power.”

— Sigmund Freud

“Writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for wordlessness.”

— Ernest Hemingway

“The brave find a home in every land.”

— Ovid

“To find love I must enter into the sanctuary where it is hidden, which is the mystery of God.”

— Thomas Merton

“Only through suffering can we find ourselves.”

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“He [the Almighty] taught us that all human beings are equal regardless of sex, national origin and tribe. And He also taught us all who seek Him shall find Him.”

— Haile Selassie

“To me Truth is God and there is no way to find Truth except the way of nonviolence.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

“You'll never make your mark as a writer unless you develop a respect for words and a curiosity about their shades of meaning that is almost obsessive. The English language is rich in strong and supple words. Take the time to root around and find the ones you want”

— William Zinsser

“I find in old age that it's possible to revisit the past, the one requirement being that you come as you are.”

— Robert Breault