Adventure Quote by Gustave Flaubert

“One thinks of nothing,’ he continued; ‘the hours slip by. Motionless we traverse countries we fancy we see, and your thought, blinding with the…

— Gustave Flaubert

“Without moving, you walk through lands you imagine you can see, and your thoughts, weaving in and out of the story, delight in the…

— Gustave Flaubert

“And when the weariness comes and the nights are sleepless, we will tell each other stories of heroism and hope. We will feed on…

— John Dolan

“Adventure, the first great theme of the novel.”

— Milan Kundera

“So expressive it was, of a hopeless and lost creature, that a famished traveler, wearied out by lonely wandering in a wilderness, would have…

— Charles Dickens

“How is it that one day life is orderly and you are content, a little cynical perhaps but on the whole just so, and…

— Jeanette Winterson

“This is the strange life of books that you enter along as a writer, mapping an unknown territory that arises as you travel. If…

— Rebecca Solnit

“You know that feeling when you are reading a book, and you know that it is going to be a tragedy; you can feel…

— Cassandra Clare

“Here, the world slows down, takes a pause, offering refuge to hidden and discreet creatures.”

— David Passarelli

“I was moving and breathing but everything else had become so slow. I felt that I was trapped inside a still landscape, one of…

— Tracy Emin

“Adventures, I reflected, are all very fine but a certain amount of civilised comfort forms the true kernel of our desires.”

— K.W. Jeter

“For the next thirteen-plus hours, I stared out the window at the passing towns and countryside. All those lives. All those untold stories and…

— Kate Klise