Quotes About Adventure

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. God Himself is not secure, having given man dominion over His works! Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold. Faith alone defends. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable.

and one of those neat spiral stairways in the far corner-I wonder where it leads. Spiral staircases always seem to me like they must lead somewhere special.

A life lived in fear is a life half-lived

In riding a horse, we borrow freedom

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

La seguridad es principalmente superstición. No existe en la naturaleza... La vida es una audaz aventura o nada

Every level of our being calls for play and danger.

I wanted to try this new drink. That's all we do, isn't it - look at things and try new drinks?

Below Les Avants there was a chalet where the pension was wonderful and where we would be together and have our books and at night be warm in bed together with the windows open and the stars bright. That was where we could go. Traveling third class on the train was not expensive. The pension cost very little more than we spent in Paris.

It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.

I intend to die with a bottle of champagne by my bed. I'll drink a toast to the fact that, despite everything, I was able to experience the singular adventure of being born, living and one day disappearing into the darkness once again.

Henning Mankell

Kertomus on matka, joka ei lopu koskaan.

Jesus promises a life in which we increasingly have to stretch out our hands and be led into places where we would rather not go.

Dare to lose your life and you will find it.

Life is a narrow valley, and the roads run close together

Take long walks in stormy weather or through deep snows in the fields and woods, if you would keep your spirits up. Deal with brute nature. Be cold and hungry and weary.

As long as possible live free and uncommitted. It makes but little difference whether you are committed to a farm or the county jail.

Rise free from care before the dawn, and seek adventures.

The surface of the earth is soft and impressible by the feet of men; and so with the paths which the mind travels. How worn and dusty, then, must be the highways of the world, how deep the ruts of tradition and conformity! I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains.

Don't be afraid that your life will end, be afraid that it will never begin!

Every child begins the world again, to some extent, and loves to stay outdoors, even in wet and cold. It plays house, as well as horse, having an instinct for it...At last we know not what it is to live in the open air, and our lives are domestic in more senses than we think.

We should go forth on the shortest walk, perchance, in the spirit of undying adventure, never to return; prepared to send back our embalmed hearts only, as relics to our desolate kingdoms. If you are ready to leave father and mother, and brother and sister, and wife and child and friends, and never see them again; if you have paid your debts, and made your will, and settled all your affairs, and are a free man; then you are ready for a walk.

Give me a wildness whose glance no civilization can endure