Quest Quotes

A mark.... is left when you complete your internal quest when you leave........

~ Anonymous

But what the measured prose of psychiatrists and the carefully calculated statistics of social scientists rarely capture is the experience of inner struggle. These significant changes do not occur automatically. In fact, they must often fight against our resistance. In this sense, midlife is a drama more worthy of a playwright than a scholar. We are characters in the play, caught at the opening of the second act, and we do not know what will happen next.

~ Mark Gerzon

What is your quest in life?

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Totally isolated from our own culture for long periods, we became vulnerable to forgotten times and tribes re-awakening within us. Our journeys, we found, were to take us simultaneously to some of the least-charted regions of the planet and to the least-charted regions of our own minds. What began for us as the effort to capture a purely objective record of what we saw gradually dissolved into a quest, an odyssey of self-discovery which actually took place amongst the last of the lands of real living kings and queens, dragons and pirates, cannibals and headhunters, mystics and magicians.

~ Lawrence Blair

I pulled Thanos in for a kiss, surprising him. I wasn’t sure if it was our bond or the fear this might be my last kiss, but I didn’t hold anything back. I let him in. He took full advantage, plundering my mouth as if I were the last woman on Earth, which could have been a result of him being trapped in a desolate wasteland for the last five hundred years—but I decided not to overthink it.

~ H.d. Smith

The blue of winter, the brown of spring, the red of summer, and the fall of green. I seek the place of treasures past. I seek the truth of sand and glass. I call to the wind of seasons past. I bring with me the best of summer. I am the one with whom you bask. Deliver me and complete your task.

~ H.d. Smith

She shoved me against the wall, pulling a knife from her belt and pressing it against my throat. “Who are you?” she hissed. I winced as the blade drew a line of blood on my flesh. I considered my options. Queen of the Fallen, no. Enemy to your children, no. “I’m Claire, the Devil’s assistant,” I answered, deciding on the simplest choice.

~ H.d. Smith

Myths of the heroes speak most eloquently of man's quest to choose life over death.

~ Dorothy Norman

In our quest for the answers of life we tend to make order out of chaos, and chaos out of order.

~ Jeffrey Fry

With little going for me other than unstoppable eagerness, a sense of total commitment, and a stubborn refusal to give up on what felt like a divinely ordained scheme, I cast myself upon the waters of the world’s oceans.

~ Roz Savage

As you search for a person, place, or thing, be prepared to continue your quest, should the end result not yield your desired outcome. Enjoy the process and you’ll avoid disappointment…!

~ James A. Murphy

Organizing one's life to respond to a threat one felt powerless about as a child can be a source of enormous inspiration.

~ Linda Austin

Sannyas is not a philosophy, it is a quest for TRUTH. It is not a way of life. It is a commitment towards a self discovered state of mind.

~ Harshit Walia

Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge.

~ Stephen Hawking

Curiosity - the rover and the concept - is what science is all about: the quest to reveal the unknown.

~ Ahmed Zewail

Hinduism's basic tenet is that many roads exist by which men have pursued and still pursue their quest for the truth and that none has universal validity.

~ Kenneth Scott Latourette

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

~ Helen Rowland

In our quest for peace, we should constantly ask ourselves what we should do to create conditions in which peace can prosper.

~ F. W. De Klerk

The quest for peace begins in the home, in the school and in the workplace.

~ Silvia Cartwright