Quotes About Adventure

Ordinary life does not interest me. I seek only the high moments. I am in accord with the surrealists, searching for the marvelous. I want to be a writer who reminds others that these moments exist; I want to prove that there is infinite space, infinite meaning, infinite dimension.

having faith that their life together, their adventures together, and the stories that they told each other, would soon take the place of the wine, believing that all the natural intoxications of caress would flow from her and not the barrel.

I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.

Warmth, perfume, rugs, soft lights, books. They do not appease me. I am aware of time passing, of all the world contains that I have not seen, of all the interesting people I have not met.

I want to do things so wild with you that I don't know how to say them.

Mountains are not Stadiums where I satisfy my ambition to achieve, they are the cathedrals where I practice my religion.

Mountains have the power to call us into their realms and there, left forever, are our friends whose great souls were longing for the heights. Do not forget the mountaineers who have not returned from the summits.

Big Mountains are a completely different world. You can not conquer them, only rise to their height for a short time; & for that they demand a great deal. The struggle is not with the enemy, or a competitor like in sports, but with yourself, with the feelings of weakness & inadequacy. That struggle appeals to me. It is why I became a mountaineer.

as had been the situation on other commercial expeditions, I had been hired to prepare the mountain for the people instead of the other way around.

Sinceramente, no siento miedo cuando estoy en las montañas. Por el contrario… siento cómo mis hombros se yerguen, se ensanchan; como los pájaros cuando extienden las alas, disfruto la libertad y la altitud. Sólo cuando vuelvo a la vida del llano siento el peso del mundo sobre mis hombros

Think of it as a blind date. All you initially have in common at the bottom is the reason you're there, the top of the mountain.

I have climbed mountains for more than twenty-five years, and only once on an assault of an 8,000er did I ever use it. Never has it been a problem for me, and Scott approved my climbing without it.

All trips end eventually. Is that any reason to renounce undertaking one and enjoying it? You only live once. Is that any reason to spoil the single life you do have?

The most beaten paths are certainly the surest, but do not hope to start much game on them.

Je ne me sens jamais vivre plus intensément que quand je m'échappe à moi-même pour devenir n'importe qui.

El hombre no puede descubrir nuevos océanos a menos que tenga el coraje de perder de vista la costa.

We who would seek new land must be willing to sacrifice the sight of shore for a long, long time.

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has courage to lose sight of the shore

et quand tu m'auras lu, jette ce livre - et sors. Je voudrais qu'il t'eût donné le désir de sortir - sortir de n'importe où, de ta ville, de ta famille, de ta chambre, de ta pensée. N'emporte pas mon livre avec toi. ... Que mon livre t'enseigne à t'intéresser plus à toi qu'a lui même, - puis à tout le reste plus qu'à toi.

Die Unannehmlichkeiten an einer allzugut vorbereiteten Reise ist, dass das Abenteuer darin nicht genügend Raum hat

Partons! et ne nous arrêtons que n'importe où!...

A mon âge, on ne voyage plus sans bibliothèque.

Je pars simplement pour partir, la surprise même est mon but - l'imprevu - Comprennez-vous?

In order to discover new lands, one must be willing to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.