#Adventure Quotes

“a wild dedication of yourselves To undiscovered waters, undreamed shores.”

“The True Artist has the planet for his pedestal; the adventurer, after years of strife, has nothing broader than his shoes.”

“I rather would entreat thy company; To see the wonders of the world abroad, Than, living dully sluggardized at home, Wear out thy youth with shapeless idleness.”

“Writing a book is an adventure.”

“Don't sit and wait. Get out there, feel life. Touch the sun, and immerse in the sea.”

“Here life itself, life at its best and healthiest, awaits the caprice of the bullet. Let us see the development of the day. All else may stand over, perhaps for ever. Existence is never so sweet as when it is at hazard.”

“I'm so optimistic, I'd go after Moby Dick in a rowboat and take the tartar sauce with me.”

“If you want to discover new oceans, you must first have the courage to leave shore.”

“I lived a dream life (almost too exclusively, perhaps) when I was a lad and even now my thought goes back for refreshment to thosedays when all the world seemed to be a place of heroic adventure in which one's heart must keep its own counsel.”

“To unpathed waters, undreamed shores.”

“If you feel the urge, don't be afraid to go on a wild goose chase. What do you think wild geese are for anyway?”

“If we didn't live venturously, plucking the wild goat by the beard, and trembling over precipices, we should never be depressed, I've no doubt; but already should be faded, fatalistic and aged.”

“What a lark! What a plunge!”

“Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame!”

“Let us go forth, the tellers of tales, and seize whatever prey the heart long for, and have no fear. Everything exists, everything is true, and the earth is only a little dust under our feet.”

“And I will now rock the brown basin from side to side so that my ships may ride the waves. Some will founder. Some will dash themselves against the cliffs. One sails alone. That is my ship. It sails into icy caverns where the sea-bear barks and stalactites swing green chairs. The waves rise, their crests curl; look at the lights on the mastheads. They have scattered, they have foundered, all except my ship which mounts the wave and sweeps before the gale and reaches the islands where the parrots chatter and then the creepers.”

“Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.”

“WE two boys together clinging, One the other never leaving, Up and down the roads going, North and South excursions making, Power enjoying, elbows stretching, fingers clutching, Arm'd and fearless, eating, drinking, sleeping, loving. No law less than ourselves owning, sailing, soldiering, thieving, threatening, Misers, menials, priests alarming, air breathing, water drinking, on the turf or the sea-beach dancing, Cities wrenching, ease scorning, statutes mocking, feebleness chasing, Fulfilling our foray.”

“Now, Voyager, sail thou forth, to seek and find."”

“I think what I want Disneyland to be most of all is a happy place - a place where adults and children can experience together some of the wonders of life, of adventure, and feel better because of it.”

“Afoot and lighthearted I take to the open road, healthy, free, the world before me.”

“My ties and ballasts leave me - I travel - I sail - My elbows rest in the sea-gaps. I skirt the sierras. My palms cover continents - I am afoot with my vision.”

“Books are everywhere; and always the same sense of adventure fills us. Second-hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack. Besides, in this random miscellaneous company we may rub against some complete stranger who will, with luck, turn into the best friend we have in the world.”

“Disneyland will always be building and growing and adding new things... new ways of having fun, of learning things, and sharing the many exciting adventures which may be experienced here in the company of family and friends.”

“In the ten years since I had run away from home...I had gone through more strange experiences than the average person crowds into a whole lifetime.”

“The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction.”

“What greater delight and wonder can there be than to leave the straight lines of personality and deviate into these footpaths that lead beneath brambles and thick tree trunks into the heart of the forest where live those wild beasts, our fellow men? That is true: to escape is the greatest of pleasures; street haunting in winter the greatest of adventures.”

“Nothing makes a man so adventurous as an empty pocket.”

“There are dreadful moments when death comes very near those we love, even if for the time being it passes by. But life is a great adventure, and the worst of all fears is the fear of living.”

“Life is a great adventure…accept it in such a spirit.”

“It is the dissenter, the theorist, the aspirant, who is quitting this ancient domain to embark on seas of adventure, who engages our interest. Omitting then for the present all notice of the stationary class, we shall find that the movement party divides itself into two classes, the actors, and the students.”

“Half the fun of the travel is the esthetic of lostness.”

“What do you do, go around trying everything once?' he asked. 'Sometimes twice.”

“An adventure is something that while it's happening you wish it wasn't.”

“I was looking for something to love, for I was in love with loving, and I hated security and a smooth way, free from snares.”

“Everything is dangerous, my dear fellow. If it wasn't so, life wouldn't be worth living.”

“Oh, no. To live... to live would be an awfully big adventure.”

“Where would you like to go, what would you really like to do with your life? See Istanbul, Port Said, Nairobi, Budapest. Write a book. Smoke too many cigarettes. Fall off a cliff but get caught in a tree halfway down. Get shot at a few times in a dark alley on a Morrocan midnight. Love a beautiful woman.”

“Sometimes you got to specifically go out of your way to get into trouble. It's called fun.”

“Do you reckon Tom Sawyer was satisfied after all them adventures?”

“The train skimmed on softly, slithering, black pennants fluttering, black confetti lost on its own sick-sweet candy wind, down the hill, with the two boys pursuing, the air was so cold they ate ice cream with each breath.”

“This year I am choosing to live beyond my wildest dreams. I wonder where they'll take me.”

“It is confidence in our bodies, minds and spirits that allows us to keep looking for new adventures.”

“Plunge into the deep without fear, with the gladness of April in your heart.”

“Be brave, right through, and leave for the unknown.”

“Having the courage to stand up and pursue your dreams will give you life's greatest reward and life's greatest adventure.”

“Age considers; youth ventures.”

“But we are all insane, anyway. Note the mountain-climbers.”

“There is a joy in danger.”

“The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.”