Quotes About Quest

To write a novel is to embark on a quest that is very romantic. People have visions, and the next step is to execute them. That's a very romantic project. Like Edvard Munch's strange dreamlike canvases where people are stylized, like 'The Scream.' Munch must have had that vision in a dream, he never saw it.

What I often do when I'm writing, if I can't find that story, I go out and I hunt for it.

Maurice Maeterlinck's play The Blue Bird.

And Emma wondered exactly what was meant in life by the words 'bliss', 'passion', 'ecstasy', which had looked so beautiful in books

That Crawford Tilinghast should ever have studied science and philosophy was a mistake. These things should be left to the frigid and impersonal investigator for they offer two equally tragic alternatives to the man of feeling and action; despair, if he fail in his quest, and terrors unutterable and unimaginable if he succeed.

These things should be left to the frigid and impersonal investigator, for they offer two equally tragic alternatives to the man of feeling and action; despair if he fail in his quest, and terrors unutterable and unimaginable if he succeed.

That Crawford Tillinghast should ever have studied science and philosophy was a mistake. These things should be left to the frigid and impersonal investigator, for they offer two equally tragic alternatives to the man of feeling and action; despair if he fail in his quest, and terrors unutterable and unimaginable if he succeed.

The need of reason is not inspired by the quest for truth but by the quest for meaning. And truth and meaning are not the same.

He found whole figures which represented a written word; but he never could manage to represent just the word he wanted - that word was 'eternity', and the Snow Queen had said, If you can discover that figure, you shall be your own master, and I will make you a present of the whole world and a pair of new skates. But he could not find it out.

I'm totally on a mission to find my signature scent, but I'm too mercurial.

Adventure is worthwhile.

The end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started.

All my life I have lived and behaved very much like the sandpiper - just running down the edges of different countries and continents, 'looking for something'.

The journey is the destination.

Sometimes you have to travel a long way to find what is near

To be on a quest is nothing more or less than to become an asker of questions.

A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.

As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.

You may travel far and wide but never will you find the boundaries of the soul.

There's a call to adventure. It's something in the inner psyche of humanity, particularly males.

A true journey, no matter how long the travel takes, has no end.

The road must eventually lead to the whole world.

I tramp a perpetual journey.

...to many it is not knowledge but the quest for knowledge that gives greater interest to thought-to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.