quotations about adventure
Adventure is all about taking each experience, regardless if you know the outcome or not and facing it head on. It is about seeing the world from a different perspective, even if you've seen it a million times before. It is choosing to see the beauty from the ordinary and finding ways on how to do it differently.
ANNA FAUSTINO
"What Is Adventure and What Does It Mean to Be Adventurous", Adventure In You, August 22, 2015
Adventure is the champagne of life, but I prefer my champagne and my adventures dry.
G. K. CHESTERTON
Tremendous Trifles
He had merely been taking refuge in the outward adventure in order to avoid the clash and tension of the adventure proceeding inexorably within.
JAMES BALDWIN
Another Country
Adventure is when you toss your life on the scales of chance and wait for the pointer to stop.
MURRAY LEINSTER
"First Contact"
Adventure ... is what might otherwise be called hardship if it were attempted in a different spirit.
LAURA MILLER
The Magician's Book
An adventurous spirit sometimes leads a man into unnecessary difficulties.
COUNT VON MOLTKE
attributed, Day's Collacon
Without adventure, civilization is in full decay.
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD
Adventures of Ideas
When you're safe at home you wish you were having an adventure; when your having an adventure you wish you were safe at home.
THORNTON WILDER
attributed, The Concise Columbia Dictionary of Quotations
No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time.
LEWIS CARROLL
Alice in Wonderland
Adventure is largely a state of mind ... simply by saying yes to everything you can often turn an ordinary holiday into an escapade.
DIXE WILLS
"How to have a holiday adventure in the UK", The Guardian, January 14, 2016
The best adventure is always the one you're about to have next.
ANONYMOUS
The thirst for adventure is the vent which Destiny offers; a war, a crusade, a gold mine, a new country, speak to the imagination and offer swing and play to the confined powers.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
The Natural History of Intellect
Adventure, yeah. I guess that's what you call it when everybody comes back alive.
MERCEDES LACKEY
Spirits White as Lightning
If adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad.
JANE AUSTEN
Northanger Abbey
If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine, it's lethal.
SARAH FREEMAN
"We Quit Our Jobs To Travel The World & Realise Our Dreams", Emirates Woman, September 1, 2016
In these parts ... we are plain quiet folk and have no use for adventures. Nasty disturbing uncomfortable things! Make you late for dinner!
J. R. R. TOLKIEN
The Hobbit
We have not even to risk the adventure alone, for the heroes of all time have gone before us -- the labyrinth is thoroughly known. We have only to follow the thread of the hero path, and where we had thought to find an abomination, we shall find a god; where we had thought to slay another, we shall slay ourselves; where we had thought to travel outward, we shall come to the center of our own existence. And where we had thought to be alone, we shall be with all the world.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL
The Hero with a Thousand Faces
Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
The Conduct of Life
Let us step out into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure.
J. K. ROWLING
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
You can't prepare for everything life's going to throw at you.... And you can't avoid danger. It's there. The world is a dangerous place, and if you sit around wringing your hands about it, you'll miss out on all the adventure.
JEANNETTE WALLS
Half Broke Horses