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Quotes About Adventure

I shot a wild elephant in Africa thirty yards from me, and it didn't hit the ground until it was right at my feet. I wasn't a bit scared. But a four foot putt scares me to death.
~ Sam Snead
Dying is a wild night and a new road.
~ Emily Dickinson
Those who shun the whimsy of things will experience rigor mortis before death.
~ Tom Robbins
Here be dragons to be slain, here be rich rewards to gain; If we perish in the seeking, why, how small a thing is death!
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
If I die, what a beautiful death.
~ Philippe Petit
I was definitely high-fiving death a couple of times.
~ Kid Cudi
Some guy once told me that skydiving is like cutting your throat and seeing if you can get to the doctor before you bleed to death.
~ Brock Yates
I drive a motorbike, so there is the whiff of the grim reaper round every corner, especially in London.
~ Benedict Cumberbatch
Better be killed than frightened to death.
~ Robert Smith Surtees
It is one thing to be in the proximity of death, to know more or less what she is, and it is quite another thing to seek her.
~ Ernest Hemingway
I like people who can't die in their bed.
~ Erri De Luca
We used to fight to the death but we tried the experiment, rolled the dice and like we got.
~ Anthony Kiedis
I am going to seek a great Perhaps.
~ Unknown
There's nothing better than a party that turns into a death trap.
~ Russell T Davies
That's why people take vacations. No to relax or find excitement or see new places. To escape the death that exists in routine things.
~ Don DeLillo
The last act in the biography of the hero is that of the death or departure.
~ Joseph Campbell
I was born to find goblins in their caves / And chase moonlight / To see shadows and seek hidden rivers / To hear the rain fall on dry leaves / And chat a bit with death across foggy nights.
~ James Kavanaugh
Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.
~ James Montgomery
To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!
~ Clive Barker
Routine is the death to heroism.
~ P. G. Wodehouse
Since coming to Mythos, I'd almost been run through with a sword and mauled to death by a killer kitty cat. Dirty looks didn't faze me anymore.
~ Jennifer Estep
Baby, this town rips the bones from our back it's a death trap, it's a suicide rap. We got to get out while we're young.
~ Bruce Springsteen
To die should be the most interesting journey of all the journeys a person can take.
~ Janwillem van de Wetering
There's still a thousand places I haven't gone to die.
~ Chuck Palahniuk, Choke