Adventure Quotes

Even their downtime was epic.

~ Robert Kurson

I am abroad in the night with my servants. We come to smoke the northern lights, to rape the Wendigo, to melt igloos with streams of hot, bloody piss. To see and see.”“Oh. You’re a bit east.

~ Laird Barron

In the silence of the mountain there is much you can learn.

~ Dennis Mckay

I was fascinated by information about the Earth's magnetic field in my geological studies, and started wondering what would happen if long-overdue changes in geomagnetism manifested in modern times. I decided, working with my wife Tiane, to take these ideas further by adding a dash of adventure and dramatic twists and turns exploring how different types of people, good and bad, might react.

~ J. Barry Reid

The ideal adventurer needs... the quality of not being content to mind his own affairs...

~ P.g. Wodehouse

Tell me, Miss Hathaway … what would you do if you were invited on a midnight ride across the earth and ocean? Would you choose the adventure, or stay safely at home?” She couldn’t seem to tear her gaze from his. The topaz eyes were lit by a glint of playfulness, not the innocent mischief of a boy, but something far more dangerous. She could almost believe he might actually change form and appear beneath her window one night, and carry her away on midnight wings … “Home, of course,” she managed in a sensible tone. “I don’t want adventure.” “I think you do. I think in a moment of weakness, you might surprise yourself.” “I don’t have moments of weakness. Not that kind, at any rate.” His laughter curled around her like a drift of smoke. “You will.

~ Lisa Kleypas

We'll make the trip a race, and I'll get there first.

~ C.j. Milbrandt

Life is a beautiful adventure.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

What emerged from the portal was not the feared armada. Instead, it was a single ship. A familiar ship. I felt a quickening in my atoms.Clever, dangerous girl. I have been expecting you.

~ G.s. Jennsen

You can conquer fear with faith.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

So off had gone John to the wars again. But he had not remained for long in the position of a humble volunteer. Colonel Clifton, commanding the 1st Regiment of Dragoons, no sooner heard that Crazy Jack was back then he enrolled him as an extra aide-de-camp.

~ Georgette Heyer

Don't complain that your life is boring. It is because you never did anything exciting.

~ Erika Woods

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

~ Helen Keller

Art is an adventure. When it ceases to be an adventure, it ceases to be art. Not all of us pursue the inaccessible landscapes of the twelve-tone scale, just as not all of us strive for inaccessible mountain-tops, or glory in storms at sea. But the human incidence is there. Could it be that these two impractical pursuits — of beauty and of adventure’s embrace — are simply two differing profiles of the same uniquely human reality?

~ Robert Ardrey

I realized if I didn’t just go, I’d never go. Going was the key. It didn’t matter where I was headed just as long as I was headed somewhere. ~ Ben Davis

~ Jayden Hunter

I don’t know if I can.”I splayed my hand on the bulkhead beside Fran's shoulder and looked her in those pretty green eyes. “It’s easier if you don’t think about it. Shut it away, think about something else. Drink, fuck, do what you gotta do. Bury it so damn deep, it can’t touch you. And before long, you’ll forget what you were worried about.”Her lips turned down at the corners. She closed her eyes and sighed. “Is that what you do?”“It works.” Or it had. Until recently. Until One somehow made me look at myself though her eyes. Now I had shit going on in my head, like not wanting to let her down. Not wanting to let any of them down. Like this life and my place in it might actually mean something. That kinda thinking would get a man killed. ~ Caleb

~ Pippa Dacosta

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

~ Larry Mcmurtry

It is the adventure and uncertainties of the journey that makes life so beautiful and interesting.

~ Debasish Mridha

And so to tame Christmas we spin myths to temper the story, we create our own caricatures to speak our own lines into the script, we gift ourselves to enhance an adventure now lagging, and we think we’re on a grand adventure when we’ve completely forgotten what an adventure is.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

To each his own, I supposed, and I had more important things, like my impending death, to worry about.

~ Sage Kafsky

I am obsessed with making every moment of my life full of value and substance. I’m constantly fighting for miracle and adventure, and everyone around me tells me to just enjoy life and stop fighting. Then I realized—I AM the adventure, and I AM the miracle. I’m fighting for myself, and I will NEVER give up fighting for who I am. If the greatest adventure is life, and the purest miracle is this very moment, then what the hell am I even waiting for?

~ Hillary Wen

Climbing has taught me many lessons, one of the most important being, just how ever-present death is. Having faced death a few times now while climbing, has made me realize that I have no fear of it.

~ Mekael Shane

Experiment your sacred self!

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Someone who lives vicariously will never be truly happy because they're not happy with themselves.

~ S.a. Tawks

If you're not happy with yourself, how can you even begin to figure out if another person makes you happy, annoyed, angry, sad and so on.

~ S.a. Tawks

This is your chance. Are you going to cower and make excuses or are you going to do what you really want to do?

~ S.a. Tawks

It seemed, at that point, my greed and cunningness were being rewarded.

~ S.a. Tawks

She'd been fed anti-consumerist bullshit by her parents but didn't understand simple economics.

~ S.a. Tawks

Now comes the hard part. Peyton, Peyton, Peyton. Just say Peyton.

~ S.a. Tawks

It's called the kindness of a fellow human being. You should try it sometime, ya fuck.

~ S.a. Tawks

At least I can say I once worked a day on a tea plantation in Far North Queensland.

~ S.a. Tawks

Everyday something unexpected happened. Everyday was exciting. Everyday was a misadventure.

~ S.a. Tawks

The acceptance of just one person is enough to silence the rejection of thousands.

~ S.a. Tawks

But now I think he was trying to teach me to never feel entitled because life can be a cruel bitch at times.

~ S.a. Tawks

Where's your sense of misadventure?

~ S.a. Tawks

My newfound motivation had me feeling confident in my ability and I headed to Mackay with a plan.

~ S.a. Tawks

Being determined delinquents, Peyton and I jumped the barricades and wandered around the dilapidated interior.

~ S.a. Tawks

You know what's the worst? Having realistic, ordinary expectations taken out of your reach by seemingly unrealistic, extraordinary circumstances.

~ S.a. Tawks

The false hope I filled myself with is fleeing and I'm beginning to feel scared again.

~ S.a. Tawks

You live by whatever rules you need to govern your life the best you think. Let's just try not to encroach.

~ S.a. Tawks