Quotes About Quest

I think she was just travelling. I don't think she had any idea of finding whoever it was she was following.

I want the truth of things. But there's nowhere to find it.

Have fun storming the castle!

Any new quest, even one that is ultimately successful, is going to involve failure.

Eden is not the thing we seek. It is the thing we cannot find.

Chris Grabenstein

AUTHOR'S NOTE Is the game really over? Maybe not. There is one more puzzle in the book that wasn't in the story. (Although a clue about how to find it was!) If you figure out the solution, let me know. Send an email to author@?Chris?Grabenstein.?com.

The mythic journey is always about selflessness

Belly?" he called. "Belly, are you here?

You can't find what you don't go looking for.

Oh foolishest fond folly of a heart Divided, neither here nor there at rest! That hankers after Heaven, but clings to earth That neither here nor there knows thorough mirth, Half-choosing, wholly missing, the good part: — Oh fool among the foolish, in thy quest. ~ Later Life: A Double Sonnet of Sonnets

An afternoon drive down back roads, looking for something I couldn't put a name to. A route to some place where maybe my true life existed.

All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality — the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.

I think now that White's quest for the hawks was his final test of Gos: he was behaving like a fearful man who has finally won someone's love and, unsure whether that love can be trusted, decides it is safer to obsess about someone else.

The Wizard of Oz, a master narrative of the questing journey, not only tells us that there will be disenchantment with the object of the quest, disenchantment perhaps built into any relationship that is based on idealization, but also stresses that what the seeker is really looking for is to be found in herself. Indeed, it is a cliché of the pilgrimage that it fundamentally involves the universal quest for the self.

Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.

Eastward I go only by force; but westward I go free.

I have found God, but he is insufficient.

So let the way wind up the hill or down, O'er rough or smooth, the journey will be joy; Still seeking what I sought when but a boy, New friendship, high adventure, and a crown. My heart will keep the courage of the quest, And hope the road's last turn will be the best.

Marita, Please find me, I am almost 30

and I abroad, and there I searched

The desire to know is natural to good men.

O speculators about perpetual motion, how many vain chimeras have you created in the like quest? Go and take your place with the seekers after gold.

I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand.