Quotes About Adventure

New points of view are not, as a rule, discovered in territory that is already known, but in out-of-the way places that may even be avoided because of their bad name. Carl Jung, Synchronicity: An Acausual Connecting Principle

It isn't ceasing to live that [I'm] afraid of but never beginning to live properly?

In Holland, Ron was the battalion S-2 Intelligence officer for Colonel Robert Strayer. While on reconnaissance, Ron paddled across the Neder Rhine alone at night. The enemy opened fire on him and he dove into the water with a German bullet in his butt. He finished recrossing the river by swimming and was found bleeding and exhausted on the south shore. In spite of his wound, he brought back critical information and later received the Silver Star for that adventure.

For walk where we will, we tread upon some story.

It was a Monday and they walked on a tightrope to the sun.

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—                               I took the road less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. —ROBERT FROST

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, and I took the one most travelled by. It was littered with corpses, as such roads are. But as you will have noticed, my own corpse is not among them.

So much better to travel than to arrive.

But how can you have a sense of wonder if you're prepared for everything?

Moira was like an elevator with open sides. She made us dizzy.

First maid: If I was a princess, with silver and gold, And loved by a hero, I'd never grow old: Oh, if a young hero came a-marrying me, I'd always be beautiful, happy, and free! Chorus: Then sail, my fine lady, on the billowing wave - The water below is as dark as the grave, And maybe you'll sink in your little blue boat - It's hope, and hope only, that keeps us afloat.

From this distance it does resemble fun. Fun is not knowing how it will end.

He'll find out somehow, because journeys end in lovers meeting.

It's a gamble every time you get up in the morning

I don't want her to be like me. Give in, go along, save her skin. That is what it comes down to. I want gallantry from her, swashbuckling, heroism, single-handed combat. Something I lack.

You don't understand much, he says. Why do you think I was lost in the impenetrable forest in the first place?

I thought of myself as an itinerant brain--the equivalent of a strolling player of Elizabethan times, or else a troubadour, clutching my university degree like a cheap lute.

It is not only the body that travels, Adam One used to say, it is also the Soul. And the end of one journey is the beginning of another.

I keep walking. I feel daring, light-headed. They are not my best friends or even my friends. Nothing binds me to them. I am free.

it is better to journey than to arrive, as long as we journey in firm faith and for selfless ends. Let

Can't play it safe, can't play at all any more

Curiosity got the cat in trouble. Let's go.

When did the body first set out on its own adventures, after having ditched its old travelling companions, the mind and the soul?

Well of course people cross genres all the time. You could have something called science-fiction-fantasy. Some galaxy far, far away and in another time with spaceships, but also dragons. And there's no rule that says you can't do that.