Quotes About Adventure

The trouble started one morning when there was a fog.

Be it determined, however, that each one this records is given by means of a man who, in line with his personal assertion, become only at one of the islands, and remained there however two weeks, slumbering every night on board his ship, and taking little child-glove excursions ashore within the sunlight hours, attended by an armed birthday celebration.

Sometimes the best way to find oneself is to flirt with many possibilities.

What followed for two hours was such an adventure as only wretched amateurs would indulge in...

dismayed that I would pass up true adventure for the sake of a fake one I'd never get around to inventing.

Adventure should be part of everyone's life. It is the whole difference between being fully alive and just existing.

In it were another gate address and a series of images

The journey is the thing.

The roaring seas and many a dark range of mountains lie between us.

Tell me, O muse, of travellers far and wide

Tell me, O Muse, of the man of many devices

Tell me, Muse, of the man of many ways, who was driven far journeys

Sing to me of the man, Muse, the man of twists and turns, driven time and again off course, once he had plundered the hallowed heights of Troy.

Tell me about a complicated man, Muse, tell me how he wandered and was lost... ...And where he went, and who he met, the pain He suffered on the sea, and how he worked To bring his men back home. - Emily Wilson Translation of Homer's Odyssey

The Odyssey puts us into a world that is a peculiar mixture of the strange and the familiar. The tension between strangeness and familiarity is in fact the poem's central subject.

As the sail bellied out with the wind, the ship flew through the deep blue water, and the foam hissed against her bows as she sped onward.

Fear not, but be bold: A decent boldness ever meets with friends, succeeds, and e'en a stranger recommends. Odyssey vii. 50.

In The Odyssey, we find instead the story of a man whose grand adventure is simply to go back to his own home, where he tries to turn everything back to the way it was before he went away. For this hero, mere survival is the most amazing feat of all.

Finding him absent, they broke into the cave; the men tried to persuade Odysseus to steal Polyphemus' cheese and animals and then make a quick escape. Odysseus insisted on staying. When the Cyclops came home, Odysseus demanded a gift;

sea-wolves raiding at will, who risk their lives to plunder other men?

It has been placed under the northern pole, in Tartary.

All the other Greeks who had survived the brutal sack of Troy sailed safely home to their own wives—except this man alone. Calypso, a great

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