Top 100 Quotes About Quests
#1. It was weather for dreams; for little fluttering quests of the heart.
Knut Hamsun
#2. Dead parents are gruesome, yes, but anyone who's anyone in children's literature has either been orphaned or abandoned; well-adjusted kids from stable two-parent homes don't go on hero quests.
Lynn Messina
#3. There was a period when the capitalist system increased the well-being of significant numbers of people as a by-product of seeking out profits for a few, but today the quests for profits comes into sharp conflict with people's demands that their material and social needs should be fulfilled. Pg. 10
Walter Rodney
#4. Life wasn't like that neat classification system, Achimwene had come to realize. Life was half-completed plots abandoned, heroes dying halfway along their quests, loves requited and un-, some fading inexplicably, some burning short and bright.
Lavie Tidhar
#5. There are no longer simple tales with quests and beasts and happy endings. The quests lack clarity of goal or path. The beasts take different forms and are difficult to recognize for what they are. And there are never really endings, happy or otherwise. Things
Erin Morgenstern
#6. I don't have time for all the relations and courting and wooing bullshit," I said. "I'm a wizard. I have quests."
"Uh, you're an apprentice," Gary said. "And you're sent on errands.
T.J. Klune
#7. The most important thing about quests, he decided, was not in finding what you went looking for, but in finding what you never could have imagined before you ventured forth.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#8. If the game designer produces more content than he can consume per month, some fraction of the people will say more quests, more tests, more challenges, more whatever, and they will be compelled by it.
Max Levchin
#9. The best way to find out what we really need is to get rid of what we don't. Quests to faraway places or shopping sprees are no longer necessary. All you have to do is eliminate what you don't need by confronting each of your possessions properly.
Marie Kondo
#10. There are quests and roads that lead ever onward, and all of them end in the same place - upon the killing ground.
Stephen King
#11. Quests always have their ups and downs,' rumbled the giant. 'The point is never to give up, even if you're falling off a cliff. You never know what might happen on the way to the bottom.
Nancy Farmer
#12. Named after the legendary Russian creature that sends heroes on amazing quests and adventures" - here Theo nodded at my mother, before continuing - "and of course after my own muscle car, because yes, it's just that cool.
Claudia Gray
#13. None of us can predict when the causes we support will capture the public imagination, and our once-lonely quests become popular crusades.
Paul Rogat Loeb
#14. Long before haunted houses existed, haunted woods circled the globe. Homer knew it. The Brothers Grimm knew it. In legend, all the great mythic quests of self-discovery begin with the hero entering a dark wood. Some journeys also end there.
Robert Dunbar
#15. You hate quests," he said. "Is a great quest as bad as a noble or heroic one?" "Oh, it's much worse than that," she said happily. "The great quests are the ones where legends are born.
Kathleen Kerridge
#16. When kids get stuck on one of our quests, we now have an app for that. It is so cool to know that now kids can use mobile technology to learn more about Poptropica's great adventures and solve its challenging quests.
Jeff Kinney
#17. If pinpointing God's presence were really that simple, then he supposed the beaches would be more crowded in the mornings. They would be filled with people on their own quests, instead of people jogging or walking their dogs or fishing in the surf.
Nicholas Sparks
#18. Amid life's quests, there seems but worthy one: to do men good.
Gamaliel Bailey
#19. And, like all the best quests, in the end, I did it all for a girl: me.
Caitlin Moran
#20. There must be a way! I have begun a Quest! Quests do not simply end. You win or you lose; it is not just suddenly over.
Catherynne M Valente
#21. If flurries be the food of quests, snow on.
Ian Doescher
#22. The search for peace is one of the ultimate quests of the human soul.
Jeffrey R. Holland
#23. The ass to end all asses," I said, unable to stop myself. "The Holy Grail of asses. If we lived in a world with fairies and elves, there would be epic quests to go get that ass. I wanted to bite it.
T.J. Klune
#24. Summer and Winter were supposed to be enemies. We were not supposed to cooperate, we were not supposed to go on quests together and, most important, we were not supposed to fall in love.
Julie Kagawa
#25. It dances today, my heart,
like a peacock it dances,
it dances.
It sports a mosaic of passions like a peacock's tail,
It soars to the sky with delight, it quests,
Oh wildly, it dances today, my heart,
like a peacock it dances.
Rabindranath Tagore
#26. Technology may have shrunk the epic journey to a couple of short car rides and regional jet legs - four states and twelve hundred miles traversed in an afternoon - but true quests aren't measured in time or distance anyway, so much as in hope.
Jess Walter
#27. It is love which made all this. War which protects it. With love comes responsibility and possibility, fear and hopes, quests and suffering.
Carrie Jones
#29. Someone says 'inauguration' in my line of work, and you can just bet there'll be freaky shit. It's like quests. You get told to 'go forth and seek the travelcard of destiny' and you know, I mean, you seriously know that it won't have just been left down the back of the sofa.
Kate Griffin
#30. Since when do princesses go on quests? They are the ones who remain safely locked away in towers playing the role of damsel-in-distress!
L.T. Suzuki
#31. Annabeth realized that if six of them went on these two quests, it would leave Percy alone on the ship with Coach Hedge, which was maybe not a situation a caring girlfriend should put him in. Nor was she eager to let Percy out of her sight again - not after they'd been apart for so many months.
Rick Riordan
#32. The object of life is not happiness, but to serve God or the Grail. All of the Grail quests are to serve God. If one understands this and drops his idiotic notion that the meaning of life is personal happiness, then one will find that elusive quality immediately at hand.
Robert A. Johnson
#33. All forms of violence are quests for identity. When you live on the frontier, you have no identity. You're a nobody.
Marshall McLuhan
#34. That's the key. The quests are things you need to do for others so that you can learn.
Kaza Kingsley
#35. Paddy was just one of many wanderers on strange, lonely quests, striking out on mysterious missions, most of whom had left no traces.
Nick Hunt
#36. If she looked further than the wedding, it was to see marriage as the beginning of individual existence, this skirmish from which one one's spurs, from which one set out on the true quests of life.
Evelyn Waugh
#37. Danger was a part of questing. Perhaps some quests were dull and safe affairs. Go to the store. Pick up some eggs. Return henceforth with said eggs and thou shalt be rewarded with the sacred omelet of justice.
Nobody wrote legends about that type of quest.
A. Lee Martinez
#38. The wind has shifted to the East. A storm isn't far off. I can smell the moisture in the air, a fetid, living thing. Isolated drops fall, licking at my hands, my face, my dress. The quests squawk in surprise, turn their palms up to the sky as if questioning it, and dash for cover.
Libba Bray
#39. Personally, I could do without prophecies or quests for awhile.
Rick Riordan
#40. Books were about movement. They were about quests and journeys. Beginnings and middles and ends, even if not in that order. They were about new chapters. And leaving old ones behind.
Matt Haig
#41. With love comes responsibility and possibility, fear and hope, quests and suffering
Carrie Jones
#42. I do really wish to destroy it!' cried Frodo. 'Or, well, to have it destroyed. I am not made for perilous quests. I wish I had never seen the Ring! Why did it come to me? Why was I chosen?
J.R.R. Tolkien
#43. We need heroes, however outlandish, because although we might not be slaying real dragons, we all have our quests.
Russ Thorne
#44. The quest of the truth had been born in me - the most tragic and incomplete, as well as the most essential, of man's quests.
Ida Tarbell
#45. That was the problem with quests. You came back different, if you came back at all.
Mary McCoy
#46. Once something is answered, then there's another question. Hence the eternal quest.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#47. Educators must resist the quest for certainty. If there were certainty there would be no scientific advancement. So it is with morals and patriotism.
John Goodlad
#48. At the dawn of history India started on her unending quest, and trackless centuries are filled with her striving and the grandeur of her success and her failures. Through good and ill fortune alike she has never lost sight of that quest or forgotten the ideals which gave her strength.
Jawaharlal Nehru
#49. I do not play the instrument In longing but in quest Not to be undertaken Not to be lost In a forest of bliss.
Katy Lederer
#50. The quest for God is the quest for true happiness.
Harold Klemp
#51. In the quest for fortune and fame ... don't forget about the simple things.
India.Arie
#52. The words "question" and "quest" are cognates. Only through inquiry can we discover truth.
Carl Sagan
#53. The quest for meaning is the key to mental health and human flourishing
Viktor E. Frankl
#54. To me, photography is like a quest, or a pilgrimage, or a hunt. I love painting, I love music, but photography is what has allowed me to get outside of myself.
Edouard Boubat
#55. Phenomenology is dialectic in ear-mode - a massive and decentralized quest for roots, for ground.
Marshall McLuhan
#56. Collecting at its best is very far from mere acquisitiveness; it may become one of the most humanistic of occupations, seeking to illustrate by the assembling of significant reliques, the march of the human spirit in its quest for beauty ...
Arthur Davison Ficke
#57. How to obtain freedom has been, and is, mankind's most important quest.
John Pugsley
#58. Education is an adventurous quest for the meaning of life, involving an ability to think things through.
Z. Applewhite.
Stephanie S. Tolan
#59. I'm also starting to wonder something else. If maybe the point of this crazy quest I'm on wasn't to help me find Willem. Maybe it was to help me find someone else entirely.
Gayle Forman
#60. See not perfection in self. Seek it not in others. One being a false perceptionThe other, an endless quest.
Mary Summer Rain
#61. If you throw away all thoughts of attainment, you will then come to see the real purpose of your quest.
Seungsahn
#62. In Einstein's theory of relativity the observer is a man who sets out in quest of truth armed with a measuring-rod. In quantum theory he sets out with a sieve.
Arthur Eddington
#63. Every man's life is, consciously or unconsciously, a quest for the infinite and the eternal reality.
Lyman Abbott
#64. Curiosity is a quest for wisdom on untamed grounds.
Wes Fesler
#65. The sad thing about miracles is that they're unique. They can't be explained, or shared, or duplicated. And they absolutely cannot be captured and made to perform on demand. If that day ever came, our world would die for lack of wonder.
Bryan Fields
#66. Philosophy is in fact a quest for wisdom based in sophia; that quest for wisdom has everything to do with a love of wisdom.
Cornel West
#67. True perfection is a bold quest to seek. Only the willing and true of heart will seek the betterment of many.
Socrates
#68. We begin to ask questions, such as: "What is the purpose of life? What is my true nature? What is the source and origin of this entire creation?" When questions of this kind arise in a person's mind, his or her quest for knowledge begins.
Tejomayananda
#70. Those who have matured spiritually, now put service to others at the center of their quest and of their lives.
Arianna Huffington
#71. Come on, readers, give me one example of a question that religion has answered to everyone's satisfaction one example of a "truth" found in religion's quest for truth.
Jerry A. Coyne
#72. Purify your life by keeping the commandments. This will help you qualify for the Spirit, who will assist you in your quest.
Ann M. Dibb
#73. Learning to write ... is a desperately idiosyncratic, eccentric, single-souled, lifelong quest.
Bret Lott
#74. The quest for our origin is the sweet fruit's juice which maintains satisfaction in the minds of the philosophers.
Luca Pacioli
#75. If this capsule history of our progress teaches us anything, it is that man, in his quest for knowledge and progress, is determined and cannot be deterred.
John F. Kennedy
#76. I write best about two things, which is evident from the cover of So Far Gone: the constant quest to understand love and money.
Drake
#77. When the quest of a dream has a detour or dip, look beyond your dismay and go finish the trip.
Wes Fesler
#78. It is ... marvellous ... to have a period of apparent fanaticism. No obstacle can discourage you. The single vision of your quest obscures defeat and lifts you over mountainous difficulties.
Margaret Sanger
#80. The quest for fire occurred not because anyone knew what the practical uses for fire would be, but because it was fascinating.
Joseph Campbell
#81. The quest for truth must be carried out by each person individually. It is like breathing, something which no one else can do for us.
Seyyed Hossein Nasr
#82. To be on a quest is nothing more or less than to become an asker of questions.
Sam Keen
#83. The quest for simplicity has to pervade every part of the process. It really is fundamental.
Jonathan Ive
#84. A disciple said to him, "I am ready, in the quest for God , to give up anything: wealth, friends, family, country, life itself. What else can a person give up?" The Master calmly replied, "One's beliefs about God.
Anthony De Mello
#85. Simply being with other people who are also seekers and who are involved in the same quest you are is very meaningful.
Dan Wakefield
#86. To begin is the most important part of any quest and by far the most courageous.
Plato
#88. The first quest or the first love is also the last. The second isn't.
James Richardson
#89. Man is the shuttle, to whose winding quest And passage through these looms God ordered motion, but ordained no rest.
Henry Vaughan
#91. Some people take drugs in a quest for spirituality.
Gaspar Noe
#92. I copied everything I did in Galaxy Quest from Bill Paxton in Aliens, I owe him some credit.
Sam Rockwell
#93. 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.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#94. It is true that the successful quest for wisdom might lead to the result that wisdom is not the one thing needful. But this result would owe its relevance to the fact that it is the result of the quest for wisdom: the very disavowal of reason must be reasonable disavowal.
Leo Strauss
#95. The greatest quest in life is to reach one's potential.
Mychal Wynn
#96. Everything can be found at sea according to the spirit of your quest.
Joseph Conrad
#97. Acting is a spiritual quest to touch human beings.
Larry Moss
#98. There can be no greater good than the quest for peace, and no finer purpose than the preservation of freedom.
Ronald Reagan
#99. In the quest to be a man, you start to learn you need your family. If it wasn't for them, I'd be way closer to insanity.
Mac Miller
#100. I knew that I wanted to create rich themes, and something that people might really relate to emotionally. That was the quest, authenticity, and then just to make the audience feel something.
John Debney
