Quotes About Adventure

What gives me strength is the feeling of being independent. In effect, I'm really just a dilettante. I've lived, explored, and worked - but only in nonjobs. I've often achieved success against all the predictions. And I've done it by following a very simple pattern of behavior: stick at it and do everything in my power to make it happen.

ÄŒlovÄ›k by mÄ›l chodit na hory jen se sobÄ› rovnými.

All meine Grenzgänge sind ausschließlich meiner Verantwortung unterworfen. »Höhere« und unpersönliche Regeln gibt es in diesem Zusammenhang nicht. Ich fragte auch nie nach »erlaubt oder verboten«, es ging mir immer nur um »möglich oder unmöglich«. Sinn gab allein ich selbst meinem Tun.

Zufälle, das Geheimnisvolle, das jeweils Unmögliche bestimmten mein Dasein, ja mein ganzes Leben.

Gemeinsames Gehen ist für mich die selbstverständlichste Form des Zusammenseins. Wie das gemeinsame Klettern auch. Alles geht viel besser, wenn ich in einer Seilschaft unterwegs bin. Am besten zu zweit. Die unendlich vielen Möglichkeiten, in die wir dabei hineingeraten, lassen sich zu zweit besser ausschöpfen, bewältigen und ertragen. Was auch immer dabei passiert, in einer Seilschaft können Sorgen und Ängste geteilt werden.

At 3 am anything was possible: you could do a handstand on a genever bottle

I entirely abandoned the study of letters. Resolving to seek no knowledge other than that of which could be found in myself or else in the great book of the world, I spent the rest of my youth traveling, visiting courts and armies, mixing with people of diverse temperaments and ranks, gathering various experiences, testing myself in the situations which fortune offered me, and at all times reflecting upon whatever came my way so as to derive some profit from it.

During the nine subsequent years, I did nothing but roam from one place to another, desirous of being a spectator rather than an actor in the plays exhibited on the theater of the world.

Impose your luck, embrace your happiness and go toward your risks: by looking at you, they'll get used to it.

No daring is fatal. The whole logic of the universe is contained in daring, in creating from the flimsiest, slenderest support.

Unforeseen universe, what oceans may lead to their shores the navigators of silence?

How can we live without the unknown before us?

After a time, it seemed that the world inside the books became my world. So when I thought of my childhood, it was dandelion wine and ice cream on a summer porch, like Ray Bradbury, and catching catfish with Huck Finn. My own memories receded and the book memories became the real memories, far more than the outside, far more even than in here. B

People will travel anywhere for good food - it's crazy.

For years, I had no time for exploratory travel.

I recall an epic peregrination of some phantasmagorical nature that lay ahead

Of course, a hole in the ice offers peril only to those who go skating.

He's sick." "What with?" "Sitzenlust. Chronic. The opposite of wanderlust.

That is always a triumph, to evade boredom.

hung up and went back out to the car and told Fred: "A new era has begun. The earth has turned around and started the other way. Mr. Wolfe has left home in a taxicab to work on a case." "Huh? Nuts." "Nope. As Fritz says, honest for God. He really has. So if you'll—" "But Jesus, Archie. He'll get killed or something.

You might have thought we were bound for the stratosphere to shine up the moon and pick wild stars.

It is impossible for any Sherlock Holmes story not to have at least one marvelous scene. [ An Invitation to Learning , January 1942]

Spiderman can climb walls and he's got a cool outfit.

Without risk, being fearless is impossible