Quotes About Adventure

Lief shook his head. "No grown-ups here. Only kids. Kids and monsters." "Monsters!" said Nick. "That's great. That's wonderful. I'm so glad I asked.

You've got to do something you've never done, to have something you've never had.

You've got to do something you've never done, to have something you've never had.

It's time, Old Captain, lift anchor, sink! The land rots; we shall sail into the night; if now the sky and sea are black as ink our hearts, as you must know, are filled with light. Only when we drink poison are we well — we want, this fire so burns our brain tissue, to drown in the abyss — heaven or hell, who cares? Through the unknown, we'll find the new. (Le Voyage)

Plonger au fond du gouffre, Enfer ou Ciel, qu'importe? / Au fond de l'Inconnu pour trouver du NOUVEAU! (rough translation : Into the abyss -- Heaven or Hell, what difference does it make? / To the depths of the Unknown to find the NEW!)

To be away from home and yet find oneself everywhere at home; to see the world, to be at the centre of the world, and yet remain hidden from the world.

Regarding sleep, this sinister adventure of each night, one could say that people fall asleep daily with an audacity that would be incomprehensible if we didn't know that it results from their being oblivious of danger.

Asombrosos viajeros! ¡Cuántas historias nobles leemos en vuestros ojos profundos como lar mar! Mostradnos en los estuches de vuestras ricas memorias esas joyas admirables, hechas de astros y éteres. ¡Deseamos viajar sin vapor y sin velas! Para alegrar el tedio de nuestros calabozos, haced que a nuestras almas tendidas como velas, pasen vuestros recuerdos orlados de horizontes. Decidnos, ¿qué habéis visto?

Oh Muerte, capitana, ya es tiempo, el ancla alcemos! Nos hastía esta tierra, ¡oh Muerte!, ¡hay que zarpar! Si son de tinta negros cielo y mar cual los vemos, nuestros pechos, que ahondaste, sólo saben brillar. ¡Vierte en nosotros el veneno que conforta! Mientras arda este fuego que en el cerebro llevo, sondeemos el abismo, Cielo, Infierno: ¿qué importa? ¡Al fondo de lo Ignoto para encontrar lo nuevo!

Nous avons vu des astres Et des flots, nous avons vu des sables aussi; Et, malgré bien des chocs et d'imprévus désastres, Nous nous sommes souvent ennuyés, comme ici.

It's better to do a dull thing with style than a dangerous thing without it.

It began as a mistake.

I heard an airplane passing overhead. I wished I was on it.

Run with the hunted.

I wish I were driving a blue 1952 Buick or a dark blue 1942 Buick or a blue 1932 Buick over a cliff of hell and into the sea.

Do some living and get yourself a typewriter.

well, i don't know about you but I'm going to try everything! War, women, travel, marriage, children, the works. [...]. I want to know about things, what makes them work!

I'm tired of waiting to die. Let's go out.

Careful poetry and careful people live only long enough to die safely.

Maybe I'd be a bank robber. Some god-damned thing. Something with flare, fire. You only had one shot. Why be a window washer?

The young will never know how recklessly we went from bed to bed, from body to body, from night to night. it all, at times, became a bore.

Daddy,' my mother asked, 'aren't we going to run out of gas?' No there's plenty of god-damned gas.' Where are we going?' I'm going to get some god-damed oranges!

You only had one shot. Why be a window-washer?

to die with your boots on while writing poetry is not as glorious as riding a horse down Broadway with a stick of dynamite in your teeth