Adventure Quotes

My father did not have to trade dying alone for the joys of the road. My mother did not have to give...

Rocinante was of more value for a true traveller than a jet plane. Jet planes were for business men.

Motionless we traverse countries we fancy we see, and your thought, blending with the fiction, playi...

Like lost children we live our unfinished adventures.

Life is two things. Life is morality – life is adventure. Squire and master. Adventure rules, and mo...

It was in a swampy village on the lagoon river behind the Turner Peninsula that Pollock's first enco...

What is this spirit in man that urges him forever to depart from happiness and security, to toil, to...

Life is either a great adventure or nothing.

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature nor do the children of men as a whole...

Learn to reverence night and to put away the vulgar fear of it, for, with the banishment of night fr...

We are but faint-hearted crusaders...our expeditions are but tours...half the walk is but retracing ...

What he'd find there, of course, was up to Pete. But he was sure there were magicians in Tampico and...

With favoring winds, o'er sunlit seas,We sailed for the Hesperides,The land where golden apples grow...

Sadly as some old mediaeval knightGazed at the arms he could no longer wield,The sword two-handed an...

I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.

I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing.

His three boats stove around him, and oars and men both whirling in the eddies; one captain, seizing...

I love to sail forbidden seas and land on barbarous coasts.

When I go to sea, I go as a simple sailor, right before the mast, plumb down into the forecastle, al...

I doubt whether the world holds for any one a more soul-stirring surprise than the first adventure w...

But they could neither of them persuade me, for there is nothing dearer to a man than his own countr...

Yea, and if some god shall wreck me in the wine-dark deep,even so I will endure…For already have I s...

Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well...

Finally we came over a rise and I saw the Caribbean...My first feeling was a wild desire to drive a ...

Never say ‘no’ to adventures. Always say ‘yes,’ otherwise you’ll lead a very dull life.

Death is just life's next big adventure.

The world is full of wonderful things you haven't seen yet. Don't ever give up on the chance of seei...

Let us step into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure.

This is a bitter adventure, if it must end so; and not a mountain of gold can amend it. Yet I am gla...

Rover did not know in the least where the moon's path led to, and at present he was much too frighte...

Oh! That was poetry!" said Pippin. "Do you really mean to start before the break of day?

What shall we do, what shall we do! Escaping goblins to be caught by wolves is like out of the fryin...

I am looking for someone to share in an adventure that I am arranging, and it's very difficult to fi...

I hope I never smell the smell of apples again!" said Fili. "My tub was full of ut. To smell apples ...

Why O why did I ever leave my hobbit-hole?" said poor Mr. Baggins, bumping up and down on Bombur's b...

You certainly usually find something if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were ...

The stars are far brighterThan gems without measure,The moon is far whiterThan silver in treasure;Th...

But our back is to legends and we are coming home. I suppose this is the first taste of it.''There i...

I'm going on an adventure

They were at the end of their journey, but as far as ever, it seemed, from the end of their quest.

Bilbo was sadly reflecting that adventures are not all pony-rides in May-sunshine...

Sam was the only member of the party who had not been over the river before. He had a strange feelin...

They hammered on the outer gate and called, but there was at first no answer; and then to their surp...

You boys going to get somewhere, or just going?" We didn't understand his question, and it was a dam...

...that was the one distinct time in my life, the strangest moment of all, when I didn’t know who I ...

So shut up, live, travel, adventure, bless and don't be sorry

What is that feeling when you're driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see ...

Yet this book is to prove that no matter how you travel, how 'successful' your tour, or foreshortene...

What is the universe but a lot of wavesAnd a craving desire is a wave…

Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.

Science moves with the spirit of an adventure characterized both by youthful arrogance and by the be...

Live life by the abc's...adventure, bravery and creativity.

Travel, which was once either a necessity or an adventure, has become very largely a commodity, and ...

She's young and the world's wide open.

Here’s to freedom, cheers to art. Here’s to having an excellent adventure and may the stopping never...

We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adv...

For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.

What sort of adventures?' I asked him, astonished. ‘All sorts, Monsieur. Getting on the wrong train....

The curious are always in some danger. If you are curious you might never come home, like all the me...

Because a sound tree doesn't have bad roots, Amara. No enterprise of greatnessbegins with treachery,...

One of the inescapable encumbrances of leading an interesting life is that there have to be moments ...

There will always be those who feel more comfortable not venturing from the warmth of the hearth, bu...

Maybe there is another who sees life not as a flickering candle but as a torch that can illuminate a...

When a man comes out of great danger, he is apt to be a little deaf to the call of duty.

The secret belongs only to the Maker of good and faithful dogs.

It was strange how fear had gone,now that we knew the worst and had a fighting man by our side.

I wanted us to have an adventure. Because I love that crap. Because I'm not whatever-her-name-is. I ...

These days young kids don't have any place to form an epic adventure. It's more often in front of th...

Even the sick should try these so-called dangerous passes, because for every unfortunate they kill, ...

There are map people whose joy is to lavish more attention on the sheets of colored paper than on th...

Alex here. (...) Ron, I really enjoy all the help you have given me and the times we spent together....

The eight-man expedition was pinned down in a ferocious blizzard high on K2, waiting to make an assa...

I'd like to repeat the advice that I gave you before, in that I think you really should make a radic...

I'd like to repeat the advice that I gave you before, in that I think you really should make a radic...

I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was wrong with my life. In the end, of cours...

It is easy when you are young to believe that what you desire is no less than what you deserve, to a...

Because I was alone, however, even the mundane seemed charged with meaning. The ice looked colder an...

Thinking in mythological terms helps to put you in accord with the inevitables of this vale of tears...

Furthermore, we have not even to risk the adventure alone; for the heroes of all time have gone befo...

The dreamer is a distinguished operatic artist, and, like all who have elected to follow, not the sa...

When you have lived your individual life in your own adventurous way and then look back upon its cou...

If you want to know the age of the Earth—look upon the sea in a storm. But what storm can fully reve...

In the empty immensity of earth, sky, and water, there she was, incomprehensible, firing into a cont...

I'm ready for another adventure now, take me far away please!Ok one more... But then you have to rea...

Something can be very funny and then suddenly very terrifying-very exciting, and suddenly very ridic...

If you call a gypsy a vagabond, I think you do him wrong,For he never goes a-travelling but he takes...

...why, I've just this instant found out... that we might have gone around the world in only seventy...

I gazed at these marvels in profound silence. Words were utterly wanting to indicate the sensations ...

I looked on, I thought, I reflected, I admired, in a state of stupefaction not altogether unmingled ...

What I love most about this crazy life is the adventure of it.

Some people are born with a vital and responsive energy. It not only enables them to keep abreast of...

It's funny, leaving a place, ain't it?" he said. "You never do know when you'll get back.

I think it's my adventure, my trip, my journey, and I guess my attitude is, let the chips fall where...

Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?""That depends a good deal on where you...

No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time.

As a kid, I imagined lots of different scenarios for my life. I would be an astronaut. Maybe a carto...

Keep reading. It's one of the most marvelous adventures that anyone can have.

A taste for adventure is by no means a masculine monopoly.

I decided that adventure was the best way to learn about writing.

Is there not glory enough in living the days given to us? You should know there is adventure in simp...