Asking Quotes

“Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few really ask. On the contrary, they try to wring from the unknown the answers they have already shaped in their own minds -- justifications, confirmations, forms of consolation without which they can't go on. To really ask is to open the door to the whirlwind. The answer may annihilate the question and the questioner.”
― Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat

“Wishing to grab the life with nothingness
wanting to erase the sigh of tiredness
forgetting myself completely from my being
why do I seek embrace of yours
do not ask me, I know not,
I am in oblivion.”
― Suman Pokhrel

“You need to trust
To surrender
To ask for guidance
Go within for the answers
They're within you
You have the answers
All you need do is ask”
― Karen Hackel, The Whisper Of Your Soul

“Pretend I asked, now answer the question...”
― Laurell K. Hamilton

“I follow and cultivate my own curiosity. I think curiosity is one of the top two or three human characteristics. It's something that I really like about myself. [...] I want to understand stuff! I want to understand people! Following my curiosity so frequently leads me to better life decisions and better business decisions but also - just feeling better! You're never going to feel bad about your whole life if you loved people and you were curious. I mean, that's kind of all I want!”
― Hank Green

“Praying, we usually ask too much. I know I do. Sometimes we even demand. I think I am learning to ask enough for the moment--not for the whole year, utterly veiled in mystery; not even for the week, the month ahead; but just for today.

Jesus said it all when He told us to pray: 'Give us this day our daily bread.'

That bread is not only material, it is spiritual; in asking for it, we ask for a sufficiency of strength, courage, hope and light. Enough courage for the step ahead--not for the further miles. Enough strength for the immediate task or ordeal. Enough material gain to enable us to meet our daily obligations. Enough light to see the path--right before our feet.”
― Faith Baldwin, Many Windows, Seasons of the Heart

“The soul may ask God for anything, and never fail.”
― Annie Dillard, Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters

“Oh, Myr," he chokes out. "I hate having to ask this of you..."
He glances towards the car again, and I crouch down in the shadows, hoping it's too dark for him to see whether the window is open or closed. The woman pats his arm, cradling her hand against his elbow.
"You know I'd do anything for you and Hil," she says. I like her voice. It's throaty and rich.
"You'd do anything?" my father repeats numbly. "Even now? After -?"
"Even now," the woman says firmly.”
― Margaret Peterson Haddix, Double Identity

“What is 'no'? Either you have asked the wrong question or you have asked the wrong person. Find a way to get the 'yes'.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

“The way is yours for the asking - the way is yours for the taking. The way is as it should be.”
― Karen Hackel, The Whisper Of Your Soul

“So many questions. Could she not think about what the answers might be before asking?”
― Brandon Sanderson, Sixth of the Dusk

“Ever’body’s askin’ that. ‘What we comin’ to?’ Seems to me we don’t never come to nothin’. Always on the way.”
― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

“The answers will be given to those who are bold enough to ask.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“It's the asking that's so painful. It takes real courage, real strength, to say you're not strong enough to do it alone.”
― Catherine Gilbert Murdock, Front and Center

“Asking for help was anathema to me. I'd told Maria that. 'And how's that been working out for you so far?' she'd said. I didn't appreciate her somewhat pointed tone, but she was quite right. That didn't, however, mean that it was easy.”
― Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

“I appreciate the ways others love me, no matter how limited. I am letting go of expecting - or demanding - that they love me exactly as I want them to. At the same time, I can always ask for the kind of love that I long for.”
― David Richo, How to Be an Adult in Relationships: The Five Keys to Mindful Loving

“What do I love? What makes me come alive? What is beauty to me, and when do I take the time to fill up with it?”
― Glennon Doyle, Get Untamed: The Journal

“We sometimes rob someone of the opportunity to offer us something by asking them for that thing.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“I take back my words and won’t ask you for anything, for I know that you will do the best.”
― Neelam Saxena Chandra, the red diary

“There’s a sensual art of asking that can despoil a man of everything he’s got BECAUSE OF HOW GOOD IT FEELS TO RESPOND TO IT.”
― Lebo Grand

“Many residents during the Florida hurricane Ian disaster were asking where is the Red Cross and FEMA.”
― Steven Magee

“If words frighten you, you should be asking the question: Why?”
― Steven Magee

“How does one answer a question that, in its very formulation, defies belief?”
― Ryan Gelpke, We Tragic Few

“Use different requesting methods, even if asking for the same thing.”
― Mitta Xinindlu

“Reject when they offer what you don't want... and use that time as an opportunity to ask for what you really want instead.”
― Mitta Xinindlu

“If you ask yes I’ve been there doing it and it’s worked for me so I guaranteed it.”
― Nozipho N Maphumulo

“Asking questions will get you to the goal, but ask people you trust.”
― Kamaran Ihsan Salih

“So rarely did Anna reach out for help that she wasn’t sure how to do it.
Is that what I’m doing, asking for help and failing?”
― Jill Alexander Essbaum, Hausfrau

“A tall man was learning from a vendor how to pronounce
churro. High in the sticky clouds of time, he kept
repeating churro while eating a churro. How to say
this made you want to live? No hand to hold
still here it was: someone giving someone comfort
and someone memorizing hard how to ask for it again.”
― Ada Limon

“I have so many questions, but I know better than to ask many of them. I can anticipate how I might hurt, or offend, or startle someone with a very frank, direct question.”
― Maggie Smith