Quotes About Quest

Increasingly, during those classes, longings had seized me, foreign, torrential aches that overran my heart. I wanted to know things, to become someone.

I felt the old, irrepressible ache to know what my point in the world might be.

thought, If I'd been born male, dear God! the things I could have done! I longed for parity with men, the freedom and choices of men, the ability to quest without worrying about who would cook dinner or pick up the children. I longed for the power men had to name the world, for the world had been largely male defined. Even God "himself" was defined by men and envisioned in their image.

When you lose your home at a young age, you spend your life looking for its replacement.

Go away, he said. Go away. I wish you had never come here. I wish I had never heard of the Light and the Dark, and your damned old Merriman and his rhymes. If I had your golden harp now I would throw it in the sea. I am not a part of your stupid quest anymore, I don't care what happens to it. And Cafall was never a part of it either, or a part of your pretty pattern. He was my dog, and I loved him more than anything in the world, and now he is dead. Go away .

For ever and ever, we say when we are young, or in our prayers. Twice, we say it, Old One, do we not? For ever and ever . . . so that a thing may be for ever, a life or a love or a quest, and yet begin again, and be for ever just as before. And any ending that may seem to come is not truly an ending, but an illusion. For Time does not die. Time has neither beginning nor end, and so nothing can end or die that has once had a place in Time.

Oh honestly, Jane, Simon said. You can't find a treasure map and just say, 'Oh, how nice,' and put it back again.

How far from the beginning are we? When did we first start to feel the wound? … This staunchless wound, the great longing for another place. To make this place another.

One day, he said,I shall find the right spell and banish the Darkness And on that day I will come to you.

Those who wander are not necessarily lost.

C'è un paesaggio interiore, una geografia dell'anima;ne cerchiamo gli elementi per tutta la vita.

Our books should be missing something, the finding of which makes us whole.

John has always been searching for something," says Jennifer Irwin, McAfee's girlfriend at the time. She remembers him telling her once that he was trying to reach "the expansive horizon.

Once lost, they are rarely found.

Every great life should have a mystery at its center.

Faayalo zweegbe. —Sólo aquel que va en busca del agua puede romper el cántaro.

Have you found the milk," he asked, "or must I venture out in search of a cow?

But the duchess, God bless her, knew her role in life, and after a six-month recuperative period, she opened the connecting door between their bedrooms, and the duke once again commenced his quest for a son. Five

Go where you will, if a shilling can there be procured, you may expect to meet with individuals in search of it.

I've always been blessed, or cursed, some might say, with an insatiable curiosity, a desire to find something out about a people and a place. That's where it all begins.

He goes because he must, as Galahad went towards the Grail: knowing that for those who can live it, this alone is life.

Feather-footed through the plashy fen passes the questing vole.

When obedience ceases to be an irritant and becomes our quest, in that moment God will endow us with power.

When obedience ceases to be an irritant and becomes a quest, in that movement God endows us with power.