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Quotes About Quest

I see the Nimble Thief and the Man with Two Lives and the Blind Man, but I don't see the others. Where's the Dreadful Bear and the Knight Protector? The Horse Lord and the Bowman? And the ladies? Where are they—the Queen of the World and the Mother of the Race That Died?
~ David Eddings
Life is essentially one long search for an ashtray.
~ David Foster Wallace
Cuando la vida no nos da a tiempo lo elemental, tal vez ya no nos saciaremos con nada, y lo nuestro será la búsqueda eterna de lo que no existe.
~ William Ospina
He that commends me to mine own content Commends me to the thing I cannot get. I to the world am like a drop of water That in the ocean seeks another drop, Who, falling there to find his fellow forth, Unseen, inquisitive, confounds himself: So I, to find a mother and a brother, In quest of them, unhappy, lose myself.
~ William Shakespeare
How now, spirit! Whither wander you?
~ William Shakespeare
Thou losest here, a better where to find.
~ William Shakespeare
No sé si me entendiste: buscabas al amor como al trabajo de publicista, con muchísimas ganas de no encontrarlo.
~ Xavier Velasco
There is in human nature a hunger and a thirst for the transcendent and the divine which cannot be satisfied with anything less than God.
~ Unknown
Bet visada atsiranda vienas ar du, kurie išsineša paslapt? ir kamuojasi d?l jos taip niekada ir nepriart?dami prie jos išsiaiškinimo.
~ Christopher Priest
Christopher Rowley
~ Unknown
For in my nature I quested for beauty, but God, God hath sent me to sea for pearls.
~ Christopher Smart
You can say 'What are you looking for' and 'Who are you looking for.' Can you say 'Where are you looking for'?
~ Unknown
Freedom isn't enough. What I desire doesn't have a name yet.
~ Clarice Lispector
A c?l?tori nu pentru a ajunge, ci pentru a c?l?tori, pentru a ajunge cât mai târziu posibil, pentru a nu ajunge, dac? se poate, niciodat?.
~ Claudio Magris
As if this were a special place, one of those special places that each man must seek out for himself, and count himself as lucky if he ever found it, for there were those who sought and never found it. And worst of all, there were even those who never hunted for it. He
~ Clifford D. Simak
There was almost a fairy quality to this place, he thought. The far look and the clear air and the feeling of detachment that touched almost on greatness of the spirit. As if this were a special place, one of those special places that each man must seek out for himself, and count himself as lucky if he ever found it, for there were those who sought and never found it. And worst of all, there were even those who never hunted for it.
~ Clifford D. Simak
And this is what ye have shipped for, men! to chase that white whale on both sides of land, and over all sides of earth, till he spouts black blood and rolls fin out.
~ Herman Melville
Humph. Looking around for the sword, are you? Well, it's a better idea than thrashing around at random.' 'The Prince,' said Master Horace repressively, 'will inform us of his intentions when he wishes to do so. We are here to serve, not to quest--' 'Yes, it's the sword,' Edoran told her.
~ Hilari Bell
Wir sind nichts; was wir suchen ist alles. (We are nothing; what we search for is everything.)
~ Unknown
Tell me what I must slay, what I must steal, tell me the riddle I must solve or the hag I must trick. Only tell me the way, and I will do it, no matter the danger, no matter the hardship, no matter the cost.
~ Holly Black
Well fine, then. I could send you out to win my favor. Possibly on a quest involving bringing a large mug of coffee and a doughnut. Or the wholesale slaughter of all my enemies. I haven't decided which.
~ Holly Black
There's people who do things and people who never do—who say they will someday, but they just don't. I want to go on a quest. I've always wanted to go on a quest. And now that I have one, I'm not backing down from it. I'm not going home until it's complete.
~ Holly Black
When you don't know what you're searching for," he says, "you have to look absolutely everywhere.
~ Holly Black
There are rumours that Cardan never wanted the throne, that he will hand it over to Oak willingly at some vague future time. But when I think of High King Cardan with his black curls and cruel mouth, the way he behaves- silly and dangersome all at once- I don't believe he would relinquish power. He might, however, trick Oak into going on a quest he wouldn't return from. Build him up with stories of honour and valiant deeds.
~ Holly Black