Quotes About Adventure

Oh, the continual drunken diversity of flights and departures! Eternal soul of navigators and their navigations!

And so we were left, each man to himself, in the desolation of feeling ourselves live. A ship may seem to be an object whose purpose is to sail, but no, its purpose is to reach a port. We found ourselves sailing without any idea of what port we were supposed to reach. Thus we reproduced a painful version of the argonauts' adventurous precept: living doesn't matter, only sailing does.

Y fue así que nos despertamos en un mundo ávido de novedades sociales y que alegremente se lanzaba hacia la conquista de una libertad que no se sabía muy bien lo que era y de un progreso que jamás pudo definir.

Life lobs us into the air like a stone, and we fly along, saying as we go: "You see, I'm moving.

Thus we represent a painful version of the argonauts' bold motto: the journey is what matters, not life.

Para viajar basta existir

Life is an experimental journey undertaken involuntarily.

The voyage on the common sea towards some unknown place is perhaps more human than the abstract path to the world's void.

Travel is for those who cannot feel.

Sabio es quien monotoniza la existencia, puesto que entonces cada pequeño incidente tiene un privilegio de maravilla. El cazador de leones no tiene aventuras más allá del tercer león. Para mi cocinero monótono, una escena de bofetadas en la calle tiene siempre algo de apocalipsis modesto. Quien no ha salido nunca de Lisboa viaja al infinito en el tranvía cuando va a Bemfica77 y, si un día va a Cintra,78 siente que ha ido a Marte.

A boat would seem to be an object whose one purpose is to travel, but its real purpose is not to travel but to reach harbour. We found ourselves on the high seas, with no idea of which port we should be aiming for.

Ideea de a c?l?tori m? îngreÅ£oÅŸeaz?. Am v?zut tot ceea ce niciodat? nu v?zusem. Am v?zut deja tot ceea ce înc? nu am v?zut.

It's better to write than dare to live, even if living is nothing more than buying bananas...

My sensitivity to all things new is a constant affliction to me; I only feel safe in places I have been in before.

Argonotlar, mühim olan yaÅŸamak deÄŸil, denizlere aç?lmak, derlermiÅŸ. Marazi bir duyarl??? olan Argonotlar olarak, biz de diyelim ki hissetmektir mühim olan, yaÅŸamak deÄŸil.

I CARRY inside my heart, As in a chest too full to shut, All the places where I have been, All the ports at which I have called, All the sights I've seen through windows and portholes And from quarterdecks, dreaming. And all of this, which is so much, is nothing next to what I want. — Fernando Pessoa, Fernando Pessoa and Co.: Selected Poems . (Grove Press; First Printing edition April 1, 1999)

libros que trepaban por las butacas como maleza en la jungla. Nuestro

It does a man no harm,' the Sergeant remarked pleasantly, 'to move around a bit and see things. It is a great thing for widening out the mind. A wide mind is a grand thing, it nearly always leads to farseeing inventions.

It does a man no harm to move around a bit and see things. It is a great thing for widening out the mind. A wide mind is a grand thing, it nearly always leads to farseeing inventions.

highway after the boy.

if you know who you are, you can go anywhere.

Eastrod filled his head and then went out beyond and filled the space that stretched from the train across the empty darkening fields.

trips made him nervous.

I am not a fan of being in the sea. I like being in a boat - sailing.