Adventure Quote by Louis L'Amour

Adventure is nothing but a romantic name for trouble.

— Louis L'Amour

“Adventure is a loose word that means different things to different people. It is a state of mind, a spirit of trying something new…

— Alastair Humphreys

An adventure is a situation where the outcome is not entirely within your control. It is up to fate, in other words

— Sebastian Junger

What people speak of as adventure is something nobody in his right mind would seek out, and it becomes romantic only when one is…

— Louis L'Amour

Adventure is something out of the usual pattern, a point at which you cannot avoid confronting the unknown, so that you have to dig…

— Bertrand Piccard

Adventure is something you seek for pleasure, or even for profit, like a gold rush or invading a country;...but experience is what really happens…

— Katherine Anne Porter

Adventure is a path...Real adventure - self-determined , self-motivated, often risky - forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world.

— Mark Jenkins

To my mind, an adventure is something a person willingly undertakes.

— Nathaniel Philbrick

Adventure is not something you travel to find. It's something you take with you, or you're not going to find it when you arrive.

— Diane Ackerman

An adventure is something that while it's happening you wish it wasn't.

— Mark Twain

The word adventure has gotten overused. For me, when everything goes wrong - that's when adventure starts

— Yvon Chouinard

There's no such thing as adventure. There's no such thing as romance. There's only trouble and desire.

— Hal Hartley