Adventure Quotes
1845 Adventure quotes by 1200 unique authors
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And this is the strangest of all paradoxes of the human adventure; we live inside all experience, but we are permitted to bear witness only…
— Howard Thurman
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Don't adventures ever have an end? I suppose not. Someone else always has to carry on on the story.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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His love of danger, his intense appreciation of the drama of an adventure--all the more intense for being held tightly in--his consistent view that every…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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The worst part of writing fiction is the fear of wasting your life behind a keyboard. The idea that, dying, you'll realize you only lived…
— Chuck Palahniuk
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wert thou as far As that vast shore washed with the farthest sea, I would adventure for such merchandise.
— William Shakespeare
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It's alarming how quickly people adjust to adventures when they are in one. You really have to work at being astonished by life.
— Ellen Potter
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He stood breathing, and the more he breathed the land in, the more he was filled up with all the details of the land. He…
— Ray Bradbury
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The misfortune is that although everyone must come to [death], each experiences the adventure in solitude. We never left Maman during those last days... and…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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Having adventures comes natural to some people", said Anne serenely. "You just have a gift for them or you haven't.
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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Don't you think it's strange that life, described as so rich and full, a camel-trail of adventure, should shrink to this coin-sized world? A head…
— Jeanette Winterson
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This book is to be neither an accusation nor a confession, and least of all an adventure, for death is not an adventure to those…
— Erich Maria Remarque
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One's thoughts are one's most crucial adventures. Seriously and strongly and intently to contemplate doing murder is everyway more exciting, more romantic, more profoundly tragic…
— Mary MacLane
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What does it mean to grow rich? Is it to have red-blooded adventures and to make a ‘fortune,’ which is what brought the whalers and…
— Barry Lopez
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I am two women: one wants to have all the joy, passion and adventure that life can give me. The other wants to be a…
— Paulo Coelho
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Where's your sense of adventure?" "Off on a beach somewhere with your sanity?
— Rachel Caine
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How will we get back up?" I worried. "I have a different route in mind for our return trip." "Does it involve stairs?" I asked…
— Karen Marie Moning
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It is extremely important for you to believe in yourselves not only for what you are now but for what you have the power to…
— Neal A. Maxwell
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She always did like tales of adventure-stories full of brightness and darkness. She could tell you the names of all King Arthur's knights, and she…
— Cornelia Funke
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Never say 'no' to adventures.
— Ian Fleming
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Here is adventure. Here is romance. Here is mystery. Tropical rivers – silently flowing into the unknown. The unbelievable splendor of exotic flowers … the…
— Walt Disney
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You can't prepare for everything life's going to throw at you. And you can't avoid danger. It's there. The world is a dangerous place, and…
— Jeannette Walls
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To be a woman is a great adventure; To drive men mad is a heroic thing.
— Boris Pasternak
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Everything was an adventure, at night, when you were where you shouldn't be, even if it was somwhere you could go perfectly well in daylight,…
— Robin McKinley
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I was disappointed in Coop. He hated being bored and so did I. He was always looking for different things to do and coming up…
— D. J. MacHale
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Peter was not quite like other boys; but he was afraid at last. A tremour ran through him, like a shudder passing over the sea;…
— James M. Barrie
Who Wrote These Adventure Quotes
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