Quotes About Adventure

They moved with the insouciance of those that have nothing to do, two aimless characters in search of a story that would deign to have them, but not in a hurry to commit to any particular type of narrative.

So I picked separate passages from books that I had already read and wove them together into different stories, one with no end and no beginning, all turmoil, a lawless world where characters change identities in the middle of a scene...

Planning is the kiss of death of entrepreneurship.

The riches of the game are in the thrills, not the money.

It's time to say goodbye, but I think goodbyes are sad and I'd much rather say hello. Hello to a new adventure.

When society involves the anarch in a conflict which in which he does not participate inwardly, it challenges him to launch an opposition. He will try to turn the lever with which society moves him. Society is then at his disposal, say, as a stage for grand spectacles that are devised for him. Everything changes; the fetter becomes fascinating, danger an adventure, a suspenseful task.

Si el miedo no existiera, carecería de sentido el valor; el miedo es la sombra oscura contra cuyo trasfondo aparece más multicolor y atrayente el riesgo.

el miedo es la sombra oscura contra cuyo trasfondo aparece más multicolor y atrayente el riesgo.

We bring our chips to the table and gamble for infinitely high stakes. We are like children who play for beans without knowing that each one of them contains the potential for the marvels of blossoms and May.

We had come from lecture halls, school desks and factory workbenches, and over the brief weeks of training, we had bonded together into one large and enthusiastic group. Grown up in an age of security, we shared a yearning for danger, for the experience of the extraordinary. We were enraptured by war.

Dormii indolenzito in una giostra di sogni.

Me ne stavo rinchiuso nell'infanzia per balia asciutta avevo la stanzetta dove dormivo sotto i castelli di libri di mio padre. Salivano da terra sul soffitto, erano torri, cavalli e fanti di una scacchiera messa in verticale. Di notte entravano nei sogni le polveri di carta. Nell'infanzia ai piedi dei libri, gli occhi non conoscevano le lacrime.

Leerlos (libros) se parecía a adentrarse en el mar con la barca, la nariz era la proa, las líneas, olas.

In ogni specie sono i solitari a tentare esperienze nuove. Sono una quota sperimentale che va alla deriva. Dietro di loro la traccia aperta si richiude.

By instinct I'm an adventurer; by choice I'd like to be a writer; by pure, unadulterated luck, I'm an actor.

Erskine Childers

An acceptable proportion must be maintained whether in a novel, therapy or everyday life — between pain and other aspects of living. Humor, irony, diversity of interests, a sense of adventure, mystery, love — all are story elements passed over by those people who are most imprisoned within their pain. Such persons can be only temporarily interesting, either in a novel or in life itself.

We are all time voyagers leaving history in our wake, pioneering into the future.

What a strange journey we embarked upon that afternoon, full of anguish and desire and wonder.

I would remove my shoes and, still clutching my belongings, lurch over the cold, damp rocks, the air smelling of wet weeds. With the sun just piercing the horizon, the light was hazy and filmy, the sand seeming to stretch on into oblivion. The sea foam stirred whitely at the edge of the water.

How can you know what you're capable of if you don't embrace the unknown?

We came to Macun when I was four, to a rectangle of rippled metal sheets on stilts hovering in the middle of a circle of red dirt.

and the shortcuts through the woods that led to the next barrio where all sorts of pocavergüenzas took place.

The world is full of marvels, if you're willing to travel far enough to see them.