logo

Quotes About Quest

For a while now I've had this feeling that there's something that I'm supposed to be doing or something that I'm supposed to contribute. I don't know what that is yet, but it's been plaguing me - like I've missed my calling somehow.
~ Emma Caulfield
The pursuit of knowledge, brother, is the askin' of many questions.
~ Raymond Chandler
The old warrior reared up, like a startled horse, and Pug's own mount shied away. "Then, mad black one, northward go. Death waits there. Find that out you shall. Those who in the ice live none welcome, and the Lasura no contest with madmen seek. Those who do a mad one harm are by the gods harm done. Touched by the gods you are." He dashed off.
~ Raymond E. Feist
How will you go about finding that thing the nature of which is totally unknown to you? (Plato) The things we want are transformative, and we don't know or only think we know what is on the other side of that transformation. Love, wisdom, grace, inspiration- how do you go about finding these things that are in some ways about extending the boundaries of the self into unknown territory, about becoming someone else?
~ Rebecca Solnit
The pilgrimage is one of the basic modes of walking, walking in search of something intangible
~ Rebecca Solnit
Cómo emprenderás la búsqueda de aquello cuya naturaleza desconoces por completo?».
~ Rebecca Solnit
Once there was a boy who had to leave home...and find another.
~ Rebecca Young
Tour operators and professional guides, more concerned with profit than with safety, have turned a spiritual quest into a cold-blooded accomplishment. To paraphrase Oscar Wilde's definition of a cynic, everyone knows the price of the highest peak in the world, and no one knows its value.
~ Reinhold Messner
The terrible thing about the quest for truth is that you find it.
~ Remy de Gourmont
It was not long before Fiver found what they were looking for.
~ Richard Adams
carrying money, food and the seal ring of Bel-ka-Trazet, set out alone for Lak. BOOK VI
~ Richard Adams
Meridian Pennsylvania
~ Richard Belzer
He was… a lost apostrophe in search of a word to which he might belong
~ Richard Flanagan
we search on our own and we search on behalf of ourselves. Whatever
~ Richard Geldard
I said—do you want to kill a fucking dragon?" More yells, and more punch behind them this time. Egar eased up out of his crouch and filled his lungs. "I can't hear you! Do you—or do you not—want to kill—a motherfucking dragon?
~ Richard K. Morgan
concéntrate más en la búsqueda del misterio que en los conocimientos que te faltan.
~ Julia Cameron
This was hopeless. In a novel, Adrian wouldn't just have accepted things as they were put to him. What was the point of having a situation worthy of fiction if the protagonist didn't behave as he would have done in a book? Adrian should have gone snooping, or saved up his pocket money and employed a private detective; perhaps all four of us should have gone off on a Quest to Discover the Truth. Or would that have been less like literature and too much like a kids' story?
~ Julian Barnes
We are meaning-seeking creatures.
~ Karen Armstrong
represented a universal striving for fulfillment.
~ Karen Armstrong
what you call my struggle to submit . . . is not struggle to submit but a struggle to accept and with passion. I mean, possibly, with joy. Picture me with my ground teeth stalking joy—fully armed too as it's a highly dangerous quest." —FLANNERY O'CONNOR
~ Karin Slaughter
Can truth be found? Is it possible to live with truth? All life-force stems from blindness. It grows from imagined knowledge, in myth taken for faith, and in the substitute myths; in unquestioning acceptance, and in mind-narrowing untruths. Within the human predicament the quest for truth presents an impossible task.
~ Karl Jaspers
Every writing career starts as a personal quest for sainthood, for self-betterment. Sooner or later, and as a rule quite soon, a man discovers that his pen accomplishes a lot more than his soul.
~ Joseph Brodsky
Man has wanted to look beyond, wanted to expand himself; and all that we call progress, evolution, has been always measured by that one search, the search for human destiny, the search for God.
~ Swami Vivekananda
He is like a man using a candle to look for the sun
~ Rumi