ADVENTURE QUOTES III
quotations about adventure
I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
HERMAN MELVILLE
Moby Dick
Immediately after an adventure is really lovely. To get food and see your friends and family and sleep in a bed is lovely. After that, you usually start to get a bit depressed. You think: "Is that it?" There's that big slump -- doing that adventure hasn't solved your problems, as it's the same when you're back. It's not long before you get itchy feet and start planning.
ALASTAIR HUMPHREYS
interview, "Alastair Humphreys, the man who cycled the world and thought 'What else can I do?'", Herts & Essex Observer, January 25, 2016
Pooh knew that an Adventure was about to happen, and he brushed the honey off his nose with the back of his paw, and spruced himself up as well as he could, so as to look Ready for Anything.
A. A. MILNE
Winnie-the-Pooh
The spirit of adventure, the lure of the unknown, the thrill of a gallant quest. How very grand indeed.
NORTON JUSTER
The Phantom Tollbooth
Reckless adventure is the fool's hazard.
TACITUS
attributed, Day's Collacon
Being soaked alone is cold. Being soaked with your best friend is an adventure.
EMILY WING SMITH
Back When You Were Easier to Love
Adventure is the possibility of the unknown.
BENJAMIN DUBOW
"Stretch your legs, Lions", Columbia Daily Spectator, September 19, 2016
In the big city the twin spirits Romance and Adventure are always abroad seeking worthy wooers. As we roam the streets they slyly peep at us and challenge us in twenty different guises. Without knowing why, we look up suddenly to see in a window a face that seems to belong to our gallery of intimate portraits; in a sleeping thoroughfare we hear a cry of agony and fear coming from an empty and shuttered house; instead of at our familiar curb, a cab-driver deposits us before a strange door, which one, with a smile, opens for us and bids us enter; a slip of paper, written upon, flutters down to our feet from the high lattices of Chance; we exchange glances of instantaneous hate, affection and fear with hurrying strangers in the passing crowds; a sudden douse of rain--and our umbrella may be sheltering the daughter of the Full Moon and first cousin of the Sidereal System; at every corner handkerchiefs drop, fingers beckon, eyes besiege, and the lost, the lonely, the rapturous, the mysterious, the perilous, changing clues of adventure are slipped into our fingers. But few of us are willing to hold and follow them. We are grown stiff with the ramrod of convention down our backs. We pass on; and some day we come, at the end of a very dull life, to reflect that our romance has been a pallid thing of a marriage or two, a satin rosette kept in a safe-deposit drawer, and a lifelong feud with a steam radiator.
O. HENRY
"The Green Door"
In place of the seemingly ubiquitous, nearly fatal sameness of the everyday, the odd adventure provides a sort of dual escape. First, it provides an escape from--the endless obligations that seem hell-bent on laying siege to your sanity.... Second, adventure provides an escape to. There is a world of wonder just waiting to be explored.
BENJAMIN DUBOW
"Stretch your legs, Lions", Columbia Daily Spectator, September 19, 2016
An adventure is life-enhancing, not entirely frivolous, and you come back understanding something more about yourself and the world.
KATE REW
"How to have a holiday adventure in the UK", The Guardian, January 14, 2016
We pay for security with boredom, for adventure with bother.
PETER DE VRIES
Comfort Me With Apples
The hardest part of a new adventure is taking the first step.
ERIN CUDDY
"Studying the Possibilities", The Antelope, September 14, 2016
I have been around this world long enough to have learned that often times the way to have an adventure is to commit yourself to it fully, and then somehow will it into existence. If you wait until all your ducks are in a row before committing to an adventure you will never have one.
ROBERT OSTERTAG
"Circling Sardinia", Canoe & Kayak, October 23, 2015
Having a perilous adventure is always better than comatose safety. Always, always, always, always, always.
JAMES ALAN GARDNER
Ascending
The desire to go on an adventure is a very human thing. I don't know how many regret doing one, but a lot more regret not doing one.
BEN MASTERS
"Beilue: Documentary with local flavor premieres this week", Amarillo Globe-News, September 8, 2015
Adventures come to the adventurous, and mysterious things fall in the way of those who, with wonder and imagination, are on the watch for them; but the majority of people go past the doors that are half ajar, thinking them closed, and fail to notice the faint stirrings of the great curtain that hangs ever in the form of appearances between them and the world of causes behind.
ALGERNON BLACKWOOD
Four Weird Tales
It is invidious to distinguish particular men as adventurers: we are all such.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE
Intuitions and Summaries of Thought
Travelling the world in search of an adventure is more popular now than ever -- and for good reason. Gone are the days when adventure travel was purely the domain of backpackers or adrenalin junkies looking to tick off activities like bungee jumping and cage diving with sharks. Over recent years, the term "adventure" has broadened considerably and can now be considered as anything "experiential". Today, these kinds of trips are more about active exploration, educational experiences and trying something new, whether that's trekking to Everest Base Camp or taking a salsa class in Cuba.
ELLIE ROSS
"Adventure holidays: Push your boundaries, trek up a mountain, experience new cultures", The Independent, January 22, 2016
One person's adventure is another's walk in the park.
NEIL FAHEY
"Walking with the Mursi -- a Long Distance Hike Across Ethiopia", The Bushwalking Blog, May 2, 2017
For many of us, living adventurously seems unrealistic or beyond what we are capable of doing. Just the word adventure conjures up images of mountain climbing, desert treks, or deep sea diving; places we could never imagine ourselves going. Adventures, however, come in all size and forms. Dipping your toes in a fountain might not seem like one, but to a 7-year-old girl it is. Cold water with the possibility of monsters lurking beneath the surface ... all very scary and quite adventurous!
FRANK NILES
"The Secret to a Joyful Life", Huffington Post, June 22, 2015