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Quotes About Adventure

The greatest difficulty of Travel is that one is forced to take oneself along.
~ Alain de Botton
The farther you go...the harder it is to return. The world has many edges and it's easy to fall off.
~ Anderson Cooper
I'm a freeborn man of the travelling people. Got no fixed abode, and no man is my master. Country lanes and byways were always my ways. I never fancied going faster.
~ Ewan MacColl
The more you travel, the better you get at it.
~ Roman Coppola
I beg young people to travel.
~ Henry Rollins
The essence of travel is diffuse. It is never there on the spot as it were, but always beyond: its symbol is the horizon, and its interest always lies over that edge in the unseen.
~ Freya Stark
Even while the Earth sleeps we travel.
~ Khalil Gibran
I've always been interested in the rest of the world. My family is very eccentric; my parents have always been very supportive of travel and doing whatever I thought I needed to do.
~ Lynsey Addario
The explorer who will not come back or send back his ships to tell his tale is not an explorer, only an adventurer; and his sons are born in exile.
~ Ursula K. Le Guin
What a Joy, to travel the way of the heart
~ Rumi
One thing about tourists is that it is very easy to get away from them. Like ants they follow a trail and a few yards each side of that trail there are none.
~ Nancy Mitford
The best travel is that which one can take by one's own fireside. In memory or imagination.
~ George Eliot
Like love, travel makes you innocent again.
~ Diane Ackerman
Traveling is, and has always been, more popular than the traveler.
~ Agnes Repplier
There's the South Pole, said Christopher Robin, and I expect there's an East Pole and a West Pole, though people don't like talking about them.
~ A. A. Milne
I became a model to see the world, to make enough money to travel and experience other cultures.
~ Lauren Hutton
Is it true that one travels in order to know mankind? It is easier to get to know other people at home, but abroad one gets to know oneself.
~ Franz Grillparzer
I know what wanting and craving adventure feels like, I can really relate to that.
~ Emile Hirsch
A zero-gravity flight is a first step toward space travel.
~ Stephen Hawking
There is nothing safer than flying - it's crashing that is dangerous.
~ Theo Cowan
Night falls over Machu Picchu to the sound of Abba's 'Dancing Queen'.
~ Michael Palin, Full Circle
Time travel is such a magic concept.
~ Matt Smith
The drive to Black Rock City from San Francisco leads through the Nevada flatlands, past the jittering neon sadness of Reno.
~ Daniel Pinchbeck
Now, bring me that horizon.
~ Johnny Depp