"Those who go down are always questioning."

Those who truly go down have no acquaintance with bleak "resignation" (which no longer wills, since it does not will anything future) and just as little with noisy "optimism" (which, despite all the self-assurance, still does not genuinely will, since it blocks itself against willing beyond itself and against attaining itself only in transformation).

Those who go down are always questioning. The un-rest of questioning is not empty uncertainty; instead, it is the opening-up and guarding of that rest which, as the gathering together into what is most question-worthy (the event), awaits the simple intimacy of the call and endures the extreme wrath of the abandonment by being...

Questioning of this sort is the restraint of seeking out where and in what way the truth of being might be grounded and sheltered.

--Martin Heidegger, Contributions, tr. Rojcewicz and Vallega-Neu, p. 315.