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Quotes About Quest

I think of myself as an explorer who has spent his life on a long voyage of discovery.
~ Paul Strand
but everyone tries; trying is the human condition. All anyone can do is ask.
~ Jill Lepore
Don Quixote would understand golf. It is the impossible dream
~ Jim Murray
As long as one keeps searching, the answers come.
~ Joan Baez
life is the vessel we have been given in order to find out what life is really meant to be about.
~ Joan D. Chittister
That's the trouble with answers. They're never as exciting as the questions, somehow.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Loving music had pushed all of us off the track- away from the normal pursuit of career, mate, and family, on an endless quest for that vibrating high, the plunge beyond time that comes only when you submerge yourself beneath the waterline of amplified sound. We were addicts, in a way, but also adept, enlightened by a noise most people considered no more than a pleasant distraction. What was left for us but to practice our art of listening?
~ Ann Powers
We find what we have been told to search for;
~ Anna Katharine Green
Perhaps somewhere in the universe there was a touchstone that she had never found, perhaps there was a clue that would make everything simple and clear--if only she knew where to look....
~ Anna Kavan
To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.
~ Anna Louise Strong
If we don't find what we seek what happen then? Nothing? Everything? Are we set free by our failure, or are we doomed because we failed to find the answer that would have saved us? And how are we supposed to know the difference?
~ Anne Bishop
Pilgrims were people in scientific exile.
~ Anne Carson
I'm on a weird quest to be sort of famous, like an indie movie star that only the hip people like to chat about.....I want to be underground famous," she wrote on Grrl.com, before working on her Sith promotions - she's genuinely on "our side.
~ Anne Elizabeth Moore
I shall pass Dawn on her way to earth, as I seek for a path through space.
~ ANNE REEVE ALDRICH
At its root, 'God of War' was always the promise of adventure.
~ Cory Barlog
An homecoming that striveth ever more And cometh to no home.
~ Euripides
Feather-footed through the plashy fen passes the questing vole.'--William Boot
~ Evelyn Waugh
If she looked further than the wedding, it was to see marriage as the beginning of individual existence, this skirmish from which one one's spurs, from which one set out on the true quests of life.
~ Evelyn Waugh
He left feeling that if he had searched harder, he might have found her — that he was leaving her behind.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
I've thought I was right about life at various times, but faith is difficult. one thing I know. If living isn't' a seeking for the grail it may be a damned amusing game.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Everything I sought in life I abandoned for the sake of the search. I'm like one who absentmindedly looks for he doesn't know what, having forgotten it in his dreaming as the search got under way.
~ Fernando Pessoa
perché se la libertà non è in me non la troverò da nessuna parte.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Oh, the continual drunken diversity of flights and departures! Eternal soul of navigators and their navigations!
~ Fernando Pessoa
A verdade, se ela existe, Ver-se-á que só consiste Na procura da verdade, Porque a vida é só metade.
~ Fernando Pessoa