Quotes About Adventure

By all that's wonderful,it is the sea,I believe,the sea itself – or is it youth alone?Who can tell?But you here – you all had something out of life:money,love – whatever one gets on shore – and,tell me,wasn't that the best time,that time when we were young at sea;young and had nothing,on the sea that gives nothing,except hard knocks – and sometimes a chance to feel your strength – that only – what you all regret?

Árboles, árboles, millares de árboles, una inmensidad, alzando sus copas hacia las alturas; y a sus pies, navegando junto a la orilla, contra la corriente, ese vapor herrumbroso, arrastrándose como un escarabajo perezoso por el suelo de un pórtico elevado.

The edge of a colossal jungle, so dark-green as to be almost black, fringed with white surf, ran straight, like a ruled line, far, far away along a blue sea whose glitter was blurred by a creeping mist.

Vagábamos por una tierra prehistórica, una tierra con el aspecto de un planeta desconocido

there is nothing mysterious to a seaman unless it be the sea itself, which is the mistress of his existence and as inscrutable as Destiny.

There is something peculiar in a small boat upon the wide seas. Over the lives born from under the shadow of death there seems to fall the shadow of madness.

Joseph Conrad

He was a seaman, but he was a wanderer, too, while most seamen lead, if one may so express it, a sedentary life. Their minds are of the stay-at-home order, and their home is always with them—the ship; and so is their country—the sea.

He sighed with content, with regret as well at having to part from the serenity which fostered the adventurous freedom of his thoughts.

this castaway, that, like a man transplanted into another planet, was separated by an immense space from his past and by an immense ignorance from his future.

Cuando era un muchacho, me apasionaban los mapas. Podía pasar horas mirando Sudamérica, África o Australia inmerso en los placeres de la exploración. En aquella época quedaban muchos lugares desconocidos en la tierra, y cuando veía en un mapa alguno que pareciera particularmente atractivo (aunque todos lo parecen), ponía el dedo sobre él y decía: "Cuando sea mayor iré allí".

Allí estaba el río, fascinante y letal como una serpiente.

His need was to exist, and to move onwards at the greatest possible risk, and with maximum of privation. If the absolutely pure, uncalculating, unpractical spirit of adventure had ever ruled a human being, it ruled this bepatched youth.

It is only women who manage to put at times into their love an element just palpable enough to give one a fright—an extra-terrestrial touch. I ask myself with wonder—how the world can look to them—whether it has the shape and substance `we know, the air `we breathe! Sometimes I fancy it must be a region of unreasonable sublimities seething with the excitement of their adventurous souls, lighted by the glory of all possible risks and renunciations.

unknown; continents

If you want to know the age of the Earth—look upon the sea in a storm. But what storm can fully reveal the heart of a man? Between Suez and the China Sea are many nameless men who prefer to live and die unknown. This is the story of one such man. Among the great gallery of rogues and heroes thrown up on the beaches and ports—no man was more respected or more damned than—Lord Jim.

Joseph Conrad

If I went out with a couple of rifles and a gun bearer, and twenty or thirty beaters, to hunt a lion, I should not feel that the lion had much chance, and so the pleasure of the hunt would be lessened in proportion to the increased safety which I felt.

Follow your bliss. Find where it is and don't be afraid to follow it.

Inscribed on the back was a line from Virgil in Latin: Audentes fortuna juvat. Fortune favors the bold. He'd been bold all right, but Fortune hadn't gotten the memo.

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.

Let's take a drive into the middle of nowhere with a packet of Marlboro lights and talk about our lives.

He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt, and his only mission each time he went up was to come down alive. The

He had poor eyesight and chronic sinus trouble, which made war especially exciting for him, since he was in no danger of going overseas.