Quotes About Exploration

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.

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.

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.

Perhaps my life is nothing but an image of this kind; perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring, doomed to try and learn what I simply should recognize, learning a mere fraction of what I have forgotten.

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.

To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him, and travel in his company.

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

while the scholar seeks, the artist finds;

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.

Con hãy g?ng ti?n vào, qua khung cá»­a h?p, vì cá»­a rá»™ng và ???ng thênh thang d?n ??n nÆ¡i tai h?a, Ä'á»…n chá»— tr?m luân, có bi?t bao k? Ä'ã Ä'i qua r?i, nhÆ°ng nh? h?p má»›i là khung cá»­a, là con ???ng d?n tá»›i ??i S?ng, và r?t ít k? tìm ra.

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!...

Não estabelecer a sequência de meu romance no prolongamento das linhas já traçadas; aí está a dificuldade. Um surgimento perpétuo; cada novo capítulo deve levantar um novo problema, ser uma abertura, uma direção, um impulso, um lançamento para frente — da mente do leitor. Mas este deve me abandonar, como a pedra lançada deixa a funda. Consinto até que, bumerangue, ele volte a bater em mim.

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.

It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves

The men of my race arrive on wingless, eyeless ships.

He was circling on a leading strap

Now that difference was a cold lump within her, a lump which had grown with every moment of time since they had snapped out of hyper to enter this system. Were the old calculations really to be trusted? Was this the home planet from which her species had lifted into space at the beginning of man's climb to the stars?

But—a spaceship! It was something that had so long been laughed to scorn. When men had failed to go farther into space after the initial excitement of the moon landings, space flight had become a matter for jeers.