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Quotes About Quest

Many search for happiness as we look for a hat we wear on our heads.
~ Unknown
The eternal quest of the human being is to shatter his loneliness.
~ Norman Cousins
The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness.
~ Norman Cousins
the quest-romance is the search of the libido or desiring self for a fulfillment that will deliver it from the anxieties of reality.
~ Northrop Frye
it's very much like your trying to reach infinity. You know that it's there, you just don't know where-but just because you can never reach it doesn't mean that it's not worth looking for.
~ Norton Juster
Where are we really going? Always home.
~ Novalis
discovery rather than invention, exploration rather than creation.
~ Octavia E. Butler
a human being is never what he is but the self he seeks.
~ Octavio Paz
que busca? Tal vez busca su destino. Tal vez su destino es buscar. ...what is he searching for? Perhaps he searches for his destiny. Perhaps his destiny is to search.
~ Octavio Paz
lives were spent in pursuit of shadowy ends that remained ever just round the corner.
~ Olaf Stapledon
The world is quite a perilous pilgrimage for those who sigh after eternity,
~ Olga Tokarczuk
True seekers are different. On meeting them you feel their purpose, their energy, their integrity, their idealism, and their desire to close in on an answer. Something in life has awakened questions, has made them aware of a sense of need, has forced them to consider where they are in life. They have become seekers because something has spurred their quest for meaning, and they have to find an answer.
~ Os Guinness
Brought up into a life with little meaning, we had convinced ourselves that meaningful ways of being existed, and we would find them. In reality, this amounted to running this way and that, uncertain of our destination, and looking back enquiringly all the time.
~ Pankaj Mishra
What are we hunting?" Anna's voice had lost the tautness of stress. "A treasure," said Tom. "The exact nature of which is a surprise.
~ Patricia Briggs
What a peculiar path I've had to take in order to reach you.
~ Patrick Modiano
He wanted something, he realizes now. Wanted an answer other than the ones he'd been given. Wanted to find out this whole world had some purpose, some particular purpose. For him.
~ Patrick Ness
The world has always been hungry, though it often does not know what it hungers for.
~ Patrick Ness
Haven't you ever felt like there has to be more? Like there's more out there somewhere, just beyond your grasp, if you could only get to it..
~ Patrick Ness
Vorfelan rhinata morie" "El deseo de conocimiento forma a un hombre" - Wil
~ Patrick Rothfuss
De modo que saliste en busca de un mito y encontraste un hombre. Has oído las historias y ahora quieres los hechos reales.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
I went looking for a legend and found a lizard. A fascinating lizard, but a lizard just the same.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
Aunque entonces no lo sabía, yo estaba buscando el nombre del viento.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
So you went looking for a myth and found a man,
~ Patrick Rothfuss
Chronicler found himself thinking of a story he had heard. One of the many. The story told of how Kvothe had gone looking for his heart's desire. He had to trick a demon to get it. But once it rested in his hand, he was forced to fight an angel to keep it.
~ Patrick Rothfuss