Quotes About Adventure

You Can Die Laughing (1957) Some

In other words, as long as man is an ambiguous creature he can never banish anxiety; what he can do instead is to use anxiety as an eternal spring for growth into new dimensions of thought and trust. Faith poses a new life task, the adventure in openness to a multidimensional reality.

You knew, Monsieur Carrados, reiterated Dompierre, and yet you ventured here. You are either a fool or a hero. An enthusiast—it is the same thing as both, interposed the lady.

Never to go on trips with anyone you do not love.

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.

Live the full life of the mind, exhilarated by new ideas, intoxicated by the Romance of the unusual.

When you start to live outside yourself, it's all dangerous.

Oh, darling, you will be good to me, won't you? Because we're going to have a strange life.

Dying was nothing and he had no picture of it nor fear of it in his mind. But living was a field of grain blowing in the wind on the side of a hill. Living was a hawk in the sky. Living was an earthen jar of water in the dust of the threshing with the grain flailed out and the chaff blowing. Living was a horse between your legs and a carbine under one leg and a hill and a valley and a stream with trees along it and the far side of the valley and the hills beyond.

My big fish must be somewhere.

It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them.

There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games.

There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.

where a man feels at home, outside of where he's born, is where he's meant to go.

Never delay kissing a pretty girl or opening a bottle of whiskey.

It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate remembrance of country you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle.

To go to bed at night in Madrid marks you as a little queer. For a long time your friends will be a little uncomfortable about it. Nobody goes to bed in Madrid until they have killed the night. Appointments with a friend are habitually made for after midnight at the cafe.

Where should we go?" "I don't care. Anywhere you want. Anywhere we don't know people.

That's all we do, isn't it -- look at things and try new drinks?

Anyone can be a fisherman in May.

Just before it was dark, as they passed a great island of Sargasso weed that heaved and swung in the light sea as though the ocean were making love with something under a yellow blanket, his small line was taken by a dolphin. He saw it first when it jumped in the air, true gold in the last of the sun and bending and flapping wildly in the air.

Something, or something awful or something wonderful was certain to happen on every day in this part of Africa.

You talk like a time-table. Did you have any beautiful adventures?

I thought she was probably a little crazy. It was all right if she was. I did not care what I was getting into.