Quotes About Adventure

It's absurd to have a hard and fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.

Youth is the only thing worth having.

The years tumbled on. They had kids: one two three four. Beauties. Whippersnappers. A little wild, all of them.

The only interesting thing is to live.

Oh, my dear, how too marvelous! I've longed all my life to eat a flamingo.

A lion chased me up a tree, and I greatly enjoyed the view from the top.

roads were made for journeys not destinations

The journey with a 1000 miles begins with one step.

A Journey of a thousand miles becomes with a single step.

Love shouldn't be comfortable.

You can't go yet, not without telling us what all's happened to you since we saw you last. I faked amnesia, nearly killed Alan Turing, got knocked unconscious by a collapsing wall, faked my own death, and met the Queen. It's a long story, he said.

I had gone off with a contemp and a complete stranger—to say nothing of the dog—and left my contact waiting on the station platform or the tracks or in a boathouse somewhere.

When I was nineteen—which was, oh, Lord, forty years ago, it doesn't seem that long—my sister and I traveled all over Egypt," she said. "It was during the Pandemic. Quarantines were being slapped on all about us, and the Israelis were shooting Americans on sight, but we didn't care. I don't think it even occurred to us that we might be in danger, that we might catch it or be mistaken for Americans. We wanted to see the Pyramids.

Have Ithaka always in your mind. Your arrival there is what you are destined for. But don't in the least hurry the journey.

they rode out on the round dais of the earth which alone was dark and no light to it and which carried their figures and bore them up into the swarming stars so that they rode not under but among them and they rode at once jaunty and circumspect, like thieves newly loosed into that dark electric, like young thieves in a glowing orchard, loosely jacketed against the cold and ten thousand worlds for the choosing.

Whoo, he said when he saw them. I'm drunkern shit. They sat their horses and looked down at him. Can you ride or not? said Rawlins. Does a bear shit in the woods? Hell yes I can ride. I was ridin when I fell off.

Those who travel desert places do indeed meet with creatures surpassing all description.

He lay watching the kid. He was from a prominent Kentucky family and had attended Transylvania College and like many another young man of his class he'd gone west because of a woman.

Black boots, said Rawlins. Aint that the shits? I always wanted to be a badman.

After a while he pulled his hat down over his eyes and stood and placed his hands outstretched on the roof of the cab and rode in that manner. As if he were some personage bearing news for the countryside. As if he were some newfound evangelical being conveyed down out of the mountains....

There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road thereto, said the Mennonite.

All patched up out of parts and lowslung and bumping over the ruts. Filled with old lanky country boys with long cocks and big feet.

They put their animals to the ford and crossed, the water up under the horses' bellies and the horses picking their way over the rocks and glancing wildly upstream where a cataract thundered out of the darkening forest into the flecked and seething pool below.

With full dark he came forth, a solitary traveler going south. He walked all night.