Adventure Quotes

1845 Adventure quotes by 1200 unique authors

In a world without air all you breathe is adventure! — Helen Dunmore
Adventures are only interesting once you've lived to see the end of them. Before that, they are nothing but fear, and being too cold or… — Holly Lisle
The adventure of life is to learn. The purpose of life is to grow. The nature of life is to change. The challenge of life… — William Arthur Ward
What is an adventure? That depends on where you are starting from. Little girls in your country, they hide in the gap between the washing… — Chris Cleave
Lots of kids in books are only-child orphans, but I think it’s fun to have family as part of the adventure, to have familial love… — Sarah Rees Brennan
The adventure is over. Everything gets over, and nothing is ever enough. Except the part you carry with you. It's the same as going on… — E L Konigsburg
My son, be worthy of your noble name, worthily borne by your ancestors for over five hundred years. Remember it’s by courage, and courage alone,… — Alexandre Dumas
You realize that people take drugs because it's the only real personal adventure left to them in their time-constrained, law-and-order, property-lined world. It's only in… — Chuck Palahniuk
Man must have just enough faith in himself to have adventures, and just enough doubt of himself to enjoy them. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
I've a pocket full of dreams to sell," said Teddy, whimsically,... "What d'ye lack? What d'ye lack? A dream of success--a dream of adventure--a dream… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
Surely you don’t disbelieve the prophecies, because you had a hand in bringing them about yourself? You don’t really suppose, do you, that all your… — J.R.R. Tolkien
One of the inescapable encumbrances of leading an interesting life is that there have to be moments when you almost lose it. — Jimmy Buffett
To all those who lead monotonous lives in the hope that they may experience at second hand the delights and dangers of adventure. [author's dedication] — Agatha Christie
People come, people go – they’ll drift in and out of your life, almost like characters in a favorite book. When you finally close the… — Nicholas Sparks
Out of its squalor and human decay, its eruptions of butchery, India produced so many people of grace and beauty, ruled by elaborate courtesy. Producing… — V.S. Naipaul
But for me there is neither Monday nor Sunday: there are days which pass in disorder, and then, sudden lightning like this one. Nothing has… — Jean-Paul Sartre
Adventures are never fun while you're having them. — C.S. Lewis
I've long believed that good food, good eating, is all about risk. Whether we're talking about unpasteurized Stilton, raw oysters or working for organized crime… — Anthony Bourdain
Is this what it is to get older, to have adventures you can no longer tell your family because you are moving apart from them?...Or… — Polly Horvath
Of all the delectable islands the Neverland is the snuggest and most compact, not large and sprawly, you know, with tedious distances between one adventure… — James M. Barrie
I didn't say no because between safety and adventure I choose adventure. — Craig Ferguson
Each of us must confront our own fears, must come face to face with them. How we handle our fears will determine where we go… — Judy Blume
He thought about the story his daughter was living and the role she was playing inside that story. He realized he hadn't provided a better… — Donald Miller
At some point, your memories, your stories, your adventures, will be the only things you'll have left. — Chuck Palahniuk
The three of them set out every morning on adventures of their own kind. Once, an elderly professor of literature, Mrs. Taggart's friend, saw them… — Ayn Rand

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