Adventure Quote by J.R.R. Tolkien

I felt a curious thrill, as if something had stirred in me, half wakened from sleep. There was something very remote and strange and…

— J. R. R. Tolkien

“I felt my way up the cliffs to the south until I found a patch of machair a few yards long and a few…

— Robert Macfarlane

“And I in a concrete room above the abandoned labyrinth of Palenque measuring my fate, wandering solitary in the wild --blinking singleminded at a…

— Allen Ginsberg

“He thought himself awake when he was already asleep. He saw the stars above his face, whirling on their silent and sleepless axis, and…

— T.H. White

“As I lay there, listening to the soft slap of the sea, and thinking these sad and strange thoughts, more and more and more…

— Iris Murdoch

“In moments like these, offering up his heart at the hour that night flowers offer up their perfume, lit up like a lamp in…

— Victor Hugo

“When I, sitting, heard the astronomer, where he lectured with such applause in the lecture room, How soon, unaccountable, I became tired and sick;…

— Walt Whitman

“At other times I wake up from the half sleep I'd fallen into, and hazy images with poetical and unpredictable colours play out their…

— Fernando Pessoa

“It was one of those southern nights under whose spell all the sterner energies of the mind cloak themselves and lie down in bivouac,…

— George W. Cable

“Unable to sleep after the others had drowsed off, I crawled out of the tent and lay on the ground, looking at the sky.…

— Haruki Murakami

“I felt the presence of the night all about me: a living, breathing entity, whispering soft words against my flesh.  I had never before…

— Rhiannon Frater

“Lying asleep between the strokes of night I saw my love lean over my sad bed, Pale as the duskiest lily's leaf or head,…

— Algernon Charles Swinburne