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Quotes About Quest

As long as the protagonist wants something, the audience will want something.
~ David Mamet
Do we not see all humans unaware Of what they want, and always searching everywhere, And changing place, as if to drop the load they bear?
~ Lucretius
No." Mosca bit her lip and shook her head firmly. Books no longer seemed quite enough. I don't want a happy ending, I want more story.
~ Frances Hardinge
Aye, Master. Only, how do we know where that dhenrabi might take us?" "Oh, we know that, most certainly. Why, the dhenrabi breeding beds, of course." "Oh.
~ Steven Erikson
Then we're all restless, Withal, because at the very heart, none of us know where we came from. Or where we're going.
~ Steven Erikson
I checked the warehouse, but he wasn't there, either.
~ Steven Gould
Wandering from room to room discovering another side to the moon.
~ Steven Herrick
Aretino was a satirist on the noble if futile quest to reform his corrupt society by shoving its face in its worse excesses. (Futile because has any society ever reformed itself after being shown the error of its ways by a satirist? anywhere? ever?)
~ Steven Moore
I thought my seach was over. I'm tired of travelling, of looking for invisible things.
~ Storm Constantine
You don't mean to say you're going to abandon your quest for knowledge? I thought you wanted to unravel the enigmas of the world single-handed!
~ Storm Constantine
What had begun as a holy quest had slowly mutated into a torment.
~ Storm Constantine
I forced myself to develop a shield of passionless dedication, rather than pander the possible consequences of our quest. It helped to think we were engaged in a holy mission, and that each soulscaper we encountered was simply expanding the knowledge we needed to save our people.
~ Storm Constantine
What if this led only to another, deeper level of the lightless lands?
~ Storm Constantine
All that compels me now is a mindless quest to see the face of the one I have pursued.
~ Storm Constantine
You are on your quest. That is exciting. If you're balanced, your boat floats on a low tide in the same way as it does on a high tide.
~ Stuart Wilde
It is about a search, too, for daily meaning as well as daily bread, for recognition as well as cash, for astonishment rather than torpor; in short, for a sort of life rather than a Monday through Friday sort of dying. Perhaps immortality, too, is part of the quest. To be remembered was the wish, spoken and unspoken, of the heroes and heroines of this book.
~ Studs Terkel
Those who are thirsty for wisdom Will ever move toward the source of the wisdom That quenches their thirst.
~ Sun Ra
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.
~ Susan Cooper
It's time to commit to finding the answer, to search for life beyond Earth. Mankind has a deep need to explore, to learn, to know. We also happen to be sociable creatures. It is important for us to know if we are alone in the dark.
~ Stephen Hawking
There's definitely some parallels between me and Joaquin Phoenix, I think. The line gets so blurry. My rap career wasn't a hoax, but it was absolutely intended to be a joke. The problem was that I really was on a quest to somehow be a Caucasian Ol' Dirty Bastard.
~ Steve-O
Let me alone, and go in search of someone else.
~ Ali ibn Abi Talib
You are neither coffee nor tea, you are just the right amount ofwhatever it is I'm trying to find.
~ Sade Andria Zabala
He gave a final shake of his coat. I go to the hunt!
~ Robin Hobb, Assassin's Fate
So many went on a quest to tame her, The only man to win her heart was the one Who was also free.
~ Nikki Rowe