# Quote — Iain M. Banks, Look To Windward

> “They spend time. That’s just it. They spend time traveling. The time weighs heavily on them because they lack any context, any valid framework for their lives. They persist in hoping that something they think they’ll find in the place they’re heading for will somehow provide them with a fulfilment they feel certain they deserve and yet have never come close to experiencing.”
>
> Ziller frowned and tapped at his pipe bowl. “Some travel forever in hope and are serially disappointed. Others, slightly less self-deceiving, come to accept that the process of travelling itself offers, if not fulfilment, then relief from the feeling that they should be feeling fulfilled.”

- Author: [Iain M. Banks](https://www.leafyquotes.com/iain-m-banks.md)
- Book: [Look To Windward](https://www.leafyquotes.com/iain-m-banks/look-to-windward.md)
- Page: 113
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/iain-m-banks/look-to-windward/they-spend-time

## More from this book

> “You serious?”
>
> “I’m always serious, never more so than when I’m being flippant.”

p. 231 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/iain-m-banks/look-to-windward/you-serious-im-always.md)

> Believe me; democracy in action can be an unpretty sight.

p. 198 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/iain-m-banks/look-to-windward/believe-me-democracy.md)

> “Elated? Pleased?”
>
> “Those are the closest words. There is an undeniable elation in causing mayhem, in bringing about such massive destruction. As for feeling pleased, I felt pleasure that some of those who died did so because they were stupid enough to believe in gods or afterlives that do not exist, even though I felt a terrible sorrow for them as they died in their ignorance and thanks to their folly.”

p. 315 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/iain-m-banks/look-to-windward/elated-pleased-those.md)