Quest Quotes

“But that shadow has been serving you!
What hurts you, blesses you.
Darkness is your candle.
Your boundaries are your quest.
You must have shadow and light source both.
Listen, and lay your head under the tree of awe.”
― Rumi

“There are people who need to impose a shape upon the shapelessness of life. For such people the quest narrative is always attractive. It prevents them from suffering the agony of feeling what's the word. Incoherent.”
― Salman Rushdie, Quichotte

“Taking a deep breath, she began a new tale.
"Once upon a real time, there were two girls, sister. The little one followed the elder like night follows day, and they were as different from each other as sun and moon, but like the sun and moon, neither would be the same without the other...”
― Kamilla Benko, The Unicorn Quest

“At one time or another we are all called to leave the safety of our homes, the certainty of what we know, the illusions of who we are. Not everyone will heed this call, of course. And those who do will risk losing themselves completely. But if we choose to ignore the invitation, we risk never knowing who we might have become. We risk dying without knowing what it is to live.”
― Thomas Lloyd Qualls, Painted Oxen

“Every quest takes places in both the sphere of the actual, which is what maps reveal to us, and in the sphere of the symbolic, for which the only maps are the unseen ones in our heads.”
― Salman Rushdie, Quichotte

“Alone is better than an army. But two is better than alone.”
― Molly Ringle, Lava Red Feather Blue

“The emotionally, psychologically and spiritually robust quest begins when the quest for certainty is abandoned.”
― Michael Brant DeMaria, Ever Flowing On - 2nd Printing

“A book can allow a reader to do nothing or to do everything.”
― M.J. Irving, Nova's Quest for the Enchanted Chalice

“The Jeep inched forward at a painfully slow rate, made all the more excruciating by the anticipation building in Artemis's chest. He could suppress it no longer. Could they at last be at the end of their quest? After six false alarms across three continents, could this wine-sodden healer be the gold at the end of the rainbow? Artemis almost chuckled. Gold at the end of the rainbow. He'd made a joke. Now there's something that didn't happen everyday.”
― Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl

“Today, more then ever, the chance to confront one's own dragons, to travel into one's own dark wood is truly possible. It requires the inner journey that awaits all of us at every moment of our lives. It involves as much grandeur, suspense, and need for courage as any story of medieval knights. To travel to the unknown parts of yourself, that is something not even Michael Jordan in his Nike Airs can do for you. At the same time, that journey is precisely what gives you more importance than a Michael Jordan, for you are the only one breathing with your lungs and living your life.”
― Michael Brant DeMaria, Ever Flowing On: On Being and Becoming Oneself

“There is Providence, quaint and lordly on its seven hills over the blue harbour, with terraces of green leading up to steeples and citadels of living antiquity, and Newport climbing wraith-like from its dreaming breakwater. Arkham is there, with its moss-grown gambrel roofs and the rocky rolling meadows behind it; and antediluvian Kingsport hoary with stacked chimneys and deserted quays and overhanging gables, and the marvel of high cliffs and the milky-misted ocean with tolling buoys beyond.”
― The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath by H.P. Lovecraft

“Scent of the sea and fragrance of the fields; spell of the dark woods and joy of the orchards and gardens at dawn. These, Randolph Carter, are your city; for they are yourself. New-England bore you, and into your soul she poured a liquid loveliness which cannot die. This loveliness, moulded, crystallised, and polished by years of memory and dreaming, is your terraced wonder of elusive sunsets...”
― The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath by H.P. Lovecraft

“The quest of power can delude man. Power creates hatred and powerful people often fear for their lives. A man, when in power, can intimidate everyone but becomes scared for himself when out of power. Power is addictive; once you live and learn to wield power, it is difficult to live without it.”
― Awdhesh Singh, 31 Ways to Happiness

“The quest for freedom in the real world is like living in a room with many windows. You can connect with the outside atmosphere whenever you want to, by opening the windows and when you seek privacy or solitude, you can close them.”
― Awdhesh Singh, 31 Ways to Happiness

“It was disabling sickness and the quest to cure it that turned on the discovery machine of the human mind.”
― Steven Magee

“A book is the only shuttle service that carries one safely to another dimension and back”
― Vishal Singh, The Himalayan Kingdoms

“This is the wake of my adventures and my immigrant dreams — Keep vigil with me as memories flood and plunge in and out of living nightmare carried by a propulsive current of misfortunes, losses, hopes, loves, tears, missteps, sorrows, and despairs in a journey that reveals an unknown destination and a silent quest that must be conjured and examined to make life meaningful. But is it all too late?”
― -Milan Sime Martinic, Ironway: Watching Over Benjamin Hill -

“The insatiable quest for knowledge is far greater than the quest for worker health and safety.”
― Steven Magee

“Love isn’t the quest anymore; the new quest is the sensuality with which it is practiced.”
― Lebo Grand

“It happens sometimes that Life makes you feel so uncomfortable that you start asking questions, start a process of seeking. And that takes you to where you must
arrive...”
― AVIS Viswanathan

“...I set down my lance, symbol of duty. I spurn those whom I love.
I relinquish all, and take up the tools of my quest.
No obstacle will stand before me. No plea for help shall find me wanting. No moon will look upon me twice lest I be judged idle.
I give my body, heart and soul to the Lady whom I seek...”
― Anthony Reynolds, Warhammer: Bretonnia

“There was a time when love filled his heart, but no more. Once Sam had sought enlightenment and thought he'd found its path on an Ashram outside Los Angeles. Once Sam had a teacher in whom he believed without reservation, who had helped him discover the inner resonances of the divine within himself. Sam had read that one could become a completely God-realized being and was awed and inspired by this perfection he saw in his teacher. As Sam progressed, his guru became more than his teacher, he became his beloved friend. Sam grew in stature and recognition in the community of spiritual seekers gathered about the guru. Sam's utter admiration made the truth more painful still when he discovered that advancement within the order was not by merit alone but that several of the higher ranking members had been conferred their status in exchange for sexual favors and that the donations made to the center went first and foremost toward the material enrichment of the leader. Life for Sam then lost its reason. He had no faith in any human being not even himself. He certainly had no faith left for the merciful and benevolent God that allowed his loving devotee to fall into the hands of such a charlatan. Sam was deeply disillusioned and heartbroken. He walked out of the center that day with no possessions, no money, no beliefs. His great spiritual quest had brought him here to New York, a homeless man living in a makeshift shanty under the overpass of the Long Island Expressway. Sam was numb inside. He did not think about his guru; he could not bear to think about the guru. Therefore, he hid his great pain deep inside himself.”
― Laurence Galian, The Sun at Midnight: The Revealed Mysteries of the Ahlul Bayt Sufis

“Education is a life-long process that involves not only formal schooling, but a continual quest to learn and understand what's happening in the world. It is driven by curiosity and a desire to know truth and acquire wisdom.”
― Laurence Overmire, The One Idea That Saves The World: A Message of Hope in a Time of Crisis

“Claire automatically took the slate blue cloak. She thought that when she tied it around her shoulders she would feel silly, as though she were playing dress up, but as the cloth settled comfortably around her, she suddenly felt the weight of what she was doing. For the first, she realized what was happening: she was going on a quest.”
― Kamilla Benko, The Unicorn Quest

“Questing Physicks isn’t like the Quiet and Queer branches. You can’t do it at home in a comfortable chair—you have to be out in the thick of the business, with your tools on your belt and your heart on your sleeve!”
― Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There

“I’ve been writing your story as you’ve grown, Nova. We are just getting to your quest, and I believe it should be a fantastic one.”
― M.J. Irving, Nova's Quest for the Enchanted Chalice

“Of course I frighten you. I am the monster in your dreams, I am the monster in your non-dreams.”
― M.J. Irving, Nova's Quest for the Enchanted Chalice

“No questions are foolish child. Only non-questions are foolish.”
― M.J. Irving, Nova's Quest for the Enchanted Chalice

“It is important to know that books are always riddled with intent and perception. It is up to the reader to come up with their own conclusions. But sometimes the words on a page can evoke thoughts and even actions in the reader. Reading can cause change, that is where the power lies.”
― M.J. Irving, Nova's Quest for the Enchanted Chalice

“You must give magic to receive magic.”
― M.J. Irving, Nova's Quest for the Enchanted Chalice