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Quotes About Quest

Whether or not you find your own way, you're bound to find some way. If you happen to find my way, please return it, as it was lost years ago.
~ Norton Juster
In the big city the twin spirits Romance and Adventure are always abroad seeking worthy wooers.
~ O. Henry
I want to go home, thought Ender, but I don't know where it is.
~ Orson Scott Card
Peregrinos viajeros hacia el altar de la inteligencia
~ Orson Scott Card
It is because Humanity has never known where it was going that it has been able to find its way.
~ Oscar Wilde
Tell us where the world went.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Piper, beware, your end is near, The Adder's power dwindles. He writhes, he goes in mortal fear, Nothing his strength rekindles. Though you seek the Jay in country and town, No sword can wound him, no hound run him down, And when you think you'll succeed in your quest, You find that the bird has flown the nest.
~ Cornelia Funke
Giant letters march across the dome of the sky: HOME NOT FOUND. Huw, who knows Comic Sans when she sees it, winces in mild disgust.
~ Cory Doctorow
I have never cared for Castles or a Crown that grips too tight, Let the night sky be my starry roof and the moon my only light, My Heart was born a Hero, my storm-bound sword won't rest, I left the Harbour long ago on a Never-ending Quest, I am off to the horizon, where the wild wind blows the foam, Come get lost with me, love, and the sea shall be our home!
~ Cressida Cowell
Sometimes it is not until the Final Chapter that you realise what a quest has REALLY been about all along.
~ Cressida Cowell
Having someplace in mind that you were traveling to was different from not having any place.
~ Cynthia Voigt
After a short time, she was not very much interested in being good. Her soul was in quest of something, which was not just being good, and doing one's best. No, she wanted something else: something that was not her ready-made duty. Everything seemed to be merely a matter of social duty, and never of her self. They talked about her soul, but somehow never managed to rouse or implicate her soul. As yet her soul was not brought in at all.
~ D.H. Lawrence
If there are fish that would swim or birds that would fly only after investigating the entire ocean or sky, they would find neither path nor place.
~ D?gen
I tramp a perpetual journey.
~ Walt Whitman
Now, Voyager, sail thou forth, to seek and find.
~ Walt Whitman
The untold want, by life and land ne'er granted, Now, Voyager, sail thou forth, to seek and find.
~ Walt Whitman
But where is what I started for so long ago? And why is it yet unfound?
~ Walt Whitman
If you want me again, look for me under your boot-soles
~ Walt Whitman
Missing me one place, search another. I stop somewhere waiting for you.
~ Walt Whitman
El viaje es la recompensa
~ Walter Isaacson
serves as a history of digital technology. What makes the book come alive, though, is Isaacson's ability to shape the story as a kind of archetypal fantasy: the flawed hero, the noble quest, the holy grail, the
~ Walter Isaacson
What began as a portrait of a silk merchant's young wife became a quest to portray the complexities of human emotion, made memorable through the mysteries of a hinted smile, and to connect our nature to that of our universe. The landscape of her soul and of nature's soul are intertwined.
~ Walter Isaacson
His life was a constant quest for unifying theories.
~ Walter Isaacson
If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences.
~ H. P. Lovecraft