quotations about adventure
I walk in a cloud of wonder; I am glad. I mingle among the crowds; my heart is pounding; you do not guess the adventure I have had!... Yet you, too, all have had your dark adventures, your sudden adventures, or strange, or sweet.
CONRAD AIKEN
The House of Dust
When I reflect on my adventures and try to put a finger on what ingredients make up the very best of them, I struggle. I loved being all alone and freezing cold as I cycled through the Andes. But I also relished sweating in too-close confines with three other blokes as we rowed across the Atlantic together. At times, adventure is the wilderness and the silence you find on a glacier in Iceland. At others, it's the noise and confusion of navigating your way through the crowds of India.
ALASTAIR HUMPHREYS
"How to have a holiday adventure in the UK", The Guardian, January 14, 2016
An adventure is anything that 1) takes me out of my comfort zone; 2) I'm not 100 percent sure I can do; 3) I've never done; 4) I wouldn't normally do in December; 5) is ridiculously fun; or 6) is something I'm so glad I'm doing that I don't have to actually enjoy doing it.
KAY STEPHENS
"Hot Sketch: Shannon, Queen of Everyday Adventures", Penobscot Bay Pilot, November 5, 2015
Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don't be sorry.
JACK KEROUAC
Desolation Angels
There are two kinds of adventurers: those who go truly hoping to find adventure and those who go secretly hoping they won't.
WILLIAM LEAST HEAT MOON
Blue Highways
Never fear quarrels, but seek hazardous adventures.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS
The Three Musketeers
The whole point of an adventure is that the outcome is unknown. That's what makes it fun.
TOBIAS MEWS
"Ten things I learned from running: from ultra marathons to booze-fuelled jaunts", The Guardian, February 23, 3016
What comes to mind when I say "adventure travel?" Sharks. Airplanes. Bungee cords or some kind of rope. Eating scorpions and swimming naked with icebergs, right? Let me let you in on a big secret -- adventure travel is only as extreme as you make it out to be.... My idea of adventure changes all the time, and that's totally fine. Yours can too.
LIZ CARLSON
"5 Myths about Adventure Travel", Young Adventuress
These lands are not always calm. We may well have more adventures ahead of us. But we shall meet them with high hearts.
POUL ANDERSON
"The Saturn Game"
Adventure is addictive. And the thrill begins when we enter unknown territory taking a big chance and encounter a feeling of achievement, bidding good bye to fear of heights, water, speed and anything else that is holding us back.
ET BUREAU
"Walking the path: Top three scenic places to slackline", The Economic Times, January 21, 2016
The test of an adventure is that when you're in the middle of it, you say to yourself, "Oh, now I've got myself into an awful mess; I wish I were sitting quietly at home.
THORNTON WILDER
The Matchmaker
An adventure is finding new places outside your comfort zone.
ROBBIE BRITTON
"Glaciers, volcanoes and hot springs: can I really run across Iceland?", The Guardian, September 30, 2015
An adventure is better when it is shared.
CHRIS PRIESTMAN
"This Gorgeous Co-Op Adventure Game Is Entirely Hand-Painted And Runs At 1080p", siliconera, May 15, 2015
We are all adventurers in the battle of life; but, alas! how many fall in the struggle.
EUPOLIS
attributed, Day's Collacon