Guy Finley Quotes

I'm always searching. It's the reason I'm here. It's not really about music: it's about searching for meaning.

Not all those who wander are lost.

I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.

'The Searcher,' as the title suggests, is about someone in search of something, and I have always loved quest stories and so was drawn to writing one myself.

I'm always interested in something that's missing.

To be on a quest is nothing more or less than to become an asker of questions.

It's a lot easier to be lost than found. It's the reason we're always searching and rarely discovered--so many locks not enough keys.

Every moment of searching is a moment of encounter.

The traveler has to knock at every alien door to come to his own, and one has to wander through all the outer worlds to reach the innermost shrine at the end.

Sometimes you have to travel a long way to find what is near

The journey is the treasure.

To be lost is as legitimate a part of your process as being found.

The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.

When you go from one place to another, you go with experience, you don't go with prescriptions.

I like the idea of the adventurer's spirit. I think that is very much what a man searches for, in a certain way.

Why is every great children's story about a journey? Maybe that's because we are always on one.

I certainly went to New York because I was searching. Most people who go to New York are searching.

Libraries are where we learn that we can live our lives through books.

I really think that living is the process of going from complete certainty to complete ignorance.

My whole life has been one of seeking experience.

What is research but a blind date with knowledge?

One of my favourite kinds of movie is the American picaresque, in which the characters make their way across the country, learning about life against the gorgeous backdrops of that vast land.

We must get beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths... and tell the world the glories of our journey.

We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.

We are all seekers in some way. There are those of us who think they have all the answers and there are those of us who may never get an answer.