Quotes About Quest

Every journey has a destination, known or unknown.

Se me debe exigir que busque la verdad, pero no que la encuentre.

Feeling after God is dangerous business.

It's like I'm in a beautiful library but none of the books have titles.

The Bible says, "Seek, and ye shall find," he thought. And said aloud to the vibrant air, "But there's no guarantee about what you'll find, is there?

All right. Where are we going?

Everyone was searching for something, conducting lively arguments, getting excited, but behind it all one felt weariness, disillusion, emptiness.

In their quest for gold, and for the ruler who controlled its steady flow into the Aztec treasuries, the conquistadors had indeed marched far - some 275 miles over mountainous country to the great Valley of Mexico.

Why ... did so many people spend their lives not trying to find answers to questions -- not even thinking of questions to begin with? Was there anything more exciting in life than seeking answers?

You can't find someone who doesn't want to be found.

What's supposed to happen, at the end of a quest? Cheers and accolades, Josh knew; people throw their hats in the air, and you glow with pride as they lift you to their shoulders. What else? Medals, speeches and a great feast, and then a ballad about your exploits, and finally, as the fireworks go off overhead, a soft, clean, fresh bed.

Similar stories are numerous and there are many variants, but none is that story. Can I have dreamed it? And yet I know I will have no peace until I have found it and find out how it ends.

J. R. R. Tolkien

We are not so much who we are by what we know, but by what we wonder. So go and seek and you shall find. And once you find that, go and seek some more.

The journey is the destination.

He wants us to search for Him as for hidden treasure, leaving no stone unturned.

The American experience stirred mankind from discovery to exploration, from the cautious quest for what they knew (or what they thought they knew) was out there, to an enthusiastic reaching to the unknown.

I'm on this eternal quest to get the best guitar sound in the world, but my vision of what is 'the best' changes every time I go into the studio. Sometimes my goal is to make my guitar jump out, and sometimes I want it to lay back.

Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.

he felt that a treasure-house of new fiction lay vaguely under his hand, if he could only find the key to it.

The Hero with a Thousand Faces

Opportunity doesn't come to the door knocking. You've got to go out and look for it.

But this was only the first move, so to speak, in Sir Mort's intercourse with the cosmic multiplicity. The next thing this crazy owner of Roque must needs do was to pull himself out of the hole into which he had descended with such persistence and proceed to shoot himself through the air! On this air-borne quest he was careful to avoid every conceivable collision. He avoided the Moon and he avoided every planet. He avoided all the falling stars.

Without you in my arms, I feel an emptiness in my soul, I find myself searching the crowds for your face. I know it is an impossibility, but I cannot help myself. My search for you is a never-ending quest that is doomed to fail