# Quotes about adventure - Quotes: 27 - Authors: 22 - Broader topic: [Quotes about travel](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/travel.md) - Topic page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/adventure - JSON version (same data): https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/adventure.json ## Quotes > "I’m available to any and every adventure of the human breath.” [Toni Cade Bambara](https://www.leafyquotes.com/toni-cade-bambara.md) · [The Salt Eaters](https://www.leafyquotes.com/toni-cade-bambara/the-salt-eaters.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/toni-cade-bambara/the-salt-eaters/im-available-to-any.md) Topics: [adventure](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/adventure.md) > So here, Floyd told himself, is the first generation of the Spaceborne; there would be more of them in the years to come. Though there was sadness in this thought, there was also a great hope. > > When Earth was tamed and tranquil, and perhaps a little tired, there would still be scope for those who loved freedom, for the tough pioneers, the restless adventurers…The time was fast approaching when Earth, like all mothers, must say farewell to her children. [Arthur C. Clarke](https://www.leafyquotes.com/arthur-c-clarke.md) · [2001: A Space Odyssey](https://www.leafyquotes.com/arthur-c-clarke/2001-a-space-odyssey.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/arthur-c-clarke/2001-a-space-odyssey/so-here-floyd.md) Topics: [freedom](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/freedom.md), [hope](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/hope.md), [adventure](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/adventure.md) > The greatest adventure lies not in our surroundings, but in the depths of our own souls. [Nnedi Okorafor](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nnedi-okorafor.md) · [The Book of Phoenix](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nnedi-okorafor/the-book-of-phoenix.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nnedi-okorafor/the-book-of-phoenix/the-greatest-adventure.md) Topics: [soul](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/soul.md), [adventure](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/adventure.md) > Don’t go looking for adventure; you might find it. [Steven R. Boyett](https://www.leafyquotes.com/steven-r-boyett.md) · [Ariel](https://www.leafyquotes.com/steven-r-boyett/ariel.md) · p. 194 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/steven-r-boyett/ariel/dont-go-looking.md) Topics: [adventure](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/adventure.md) > Strange—I go along for months at a time—even years—without so much as a mild concussion—and then bam—slam—bash! They start using my head for a practice dummy. That’s how I can tell that I’m having an adventure. [Keith Laumer](https://www.leafyquotes.com/keith-laumer.md) · [The Shape Changer](https://www.leafyquotes.com/keith-laumer/the-shape-changer.md) · p. 557 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/keith-laumer/the-shape-changer/strange-i-go-along.md) Topics: [humor](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/humor.md), [adventure](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/adventure.md) > Adventure has been defined as somebody else having a difficult time, a long way away. (p. 17) [Keith Laumer](https://www.leafyquotes.com/keith-laumer.md) · [The Star Treasure](https://www.leafyquotes.com/keith-laumer/the-star-treasure.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/keith-laumer/the-star-treasure/adventure-has-been.md) Topics: [humor](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/humor.md), [adventure](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/adventure.md) > I found that it is much more pleasurable to read adventures than to live them. [John Varley](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-varley.md) · [The Ophiuchi Hotline](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-varley/the-ophiuchi-hotline.md) · p. 210 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-varley/the-ophiuchi-hotline/i-found-that.md) Topics: [reading](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/reading.md), [adventure](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/adventure.md) > “Do you realize,” he asked, “that the whole purpose of civilization is to take the surprises out of life, so one can be bored to death? That a culture in which nothing unexpected ever happens is in what is called its Golden Age? That when nobody can even imagine anything happening unexpectedly, that they later fondly refer to that period as the Good Old Days?” > > “I hadn’t thought of it in just those words, sir—” > > “It is one of the most-avoided facts of life,” said the ambassador. “Government, in the local or planetary sense of the word, is an organization for the suppression of adventure. Taxes are, in part, the insurance premiums one pays for protection against the unpredictable. [Murray Leinster](https://www.leafyquotes.com/murray-leinster.md) · [The Pirates of Zan](https://www.leafyquotes.com/murray-leinster/the-pirates-of-zan.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/murray-leinster/the-pirates-of-zan/do-you-realize.md) Topics: [civilization](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/civilization.md), [boredom](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/boredom.md), [adventure](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/adventure.md) > You can have more adventure in an hour’s walk through a forest than in a year on a spaceship. [Poul Anderson](https://www.leafyquotes.com/poul-anderson.md) · [The Enemy Stars](https://www.leafyquotes.com/poul-anderson/the-enemy-stars.md) · p. 103 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/poul-anderson/the-enemy-stars/you-can-have.md) Topics: [nature](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/nature.md), [adventure](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/adventure.md) > 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 'associates,' food, for me, has always been an adventure. [Anthony Bourdain](https://www.leafyquotes.com/anthony-bourdain.md) · [Kitchen Confidential](https://www.leafyquotes.com/anthony-bourdain/kitchen-confidential.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/anthony-bourdain/kitchen-confidential/ive-long-believed.md) Topics: [risk](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/risk.md), [food](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/food.md), [adventure](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/adventure.md) > I have ever been prone to seek adventure and to investigate and experiment where wiser men would have left well enough alone. [Edgar Rice Burroughs](https://www.leafyquotes.com/edgar-rice-burroughs.md) · [A Princess of Mars](https://www.leafyquotes.com/edgar-rice-burroughs/a-princess-of-mars.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/edgar-rice-burroughs/a-princess-of-mars/i-have-ever.md) Topics: [curiosity](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/curiosity.md), [adventure](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/adventure.md) > That faculty of beholding at a hint the face of his desire and the shape of his dream, without which the earth would know no lover and no adventurer. [Joseph Conrad](https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-conrad.md) · [Lord Jim](https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-conrad/lord-jim.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-conrad/lord-jim/that-faculty-of-beholding.md) Topics: [love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love.md), [dreams and aspirations](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/dreams-and-aspirations.md), [adventure](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/adventure.md) > [A]dventures befall the unadventurous as readily, if not as frequently, as the bold. Adventures are a logical and reliable result—and have been since at least the time of Odysseus—of the fatal act of leaving one's home, or trying to return to it again. All adventures happen in that damned and magical space, wherever it may be found or chanced upon, which least resembles one's home. As soon as you have crossed your doorstep or the county line, into that place where the structures, laws, and conventions of your upbringing no longer apply, where the support and approval (but also the disapproval and repression) of your family and neighbors are not to be had: then you have entered into adventure, a place of sorrow, marvels, and regret. [Michael Chabon](https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-chabon.md) · [Gentlemen of the Road](https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-chabon/gentlemen-of-the-road.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-chabon/gentlemen-of-the-road/a-dventures-befall-the.md) Topics: [home](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/home.md), [adventure](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/adventure.md) > At the bottom of the fall we were able to stand again on dry land. The rope could not be recovered. We had flung down the adze from the top of the fall and also the logbook and the cooker wrapped in one of our blouses. That was all, except our wet clothes, that we brought out of the Antarctic, which we had entered a year and a half before with well-found ship, full equipment, and high hopes. That was all of tangible things; but in memories we were rich. We had pierced the veneer of outside things. We had "suffered, starved and triumphed, groveled down yet grasped at glory, grown bigger in the bigness of the whole. We had seen God in His splendours, heard the text that Nature renders." We had reached the naked soul of man. [Ernest Shackleton](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ernest-shackleton.md) · [South](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ernest-shackleton/south.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ernest-shackleton/south/at-the-bottom.md) Topics: [survival](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/survival.md), [adventure](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/adventure.md) > May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds. May your rivers flow without end, meandering through pastoral valleys tinkling with bells, past temples and castles and poets' towers into a dark primeval forest where tigers belch and monkeys howl, through miasmal and mysterious swamps and down into a desert of red rock, blue mesas, domes and pinnacles and grottos of endless stone, and down again into a deep vast ancient unknown chasm where bars of sunlight blaze on profiled cliffs, where deer walk across the white sand beaches, where storms come and go as lightning clangs upon the high crags, where something strange and more beautiful and more full of wonder than your deepest dreams waits for you — beyond that next turning of the canyon walls. [Edward Abbey](https://www.leafyquotes.com/edward-abbey.md) · [Desert Solitaire](https://www.leafyquotes.com/edward-abbey/desert-solitaire.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/edward-abbey/desert-solitaire/may-your-trails.md) Topics: [nature](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/nature.md), [adventure](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/adventure.md) > Life need not be a story, but it does need to be an adventure. [Douglas Coupland](https://www.leafyquotes.com/douglas-coupland.md) · [Player One](https://www.leafyquotes.com/douglas-coupland/player-one.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/douglas-coupland/player-one/life-need-not.md) Topics: [life](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/life.md), [adventure](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/adventure.md) > If he could get the hang of the thing his cry might become "To live would be an awfully big adventure!" but he can never quite get the hang of it, and so no one is as gay as he. [J.M. Barrie](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jm-barrie.md) · [Peter Pan](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jm-barrie/peter-pan.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jm-barrie/peter-pan/if-he-could-get.md) Topics: [life](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/life.md), [adventure](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/adventure.md) > To die will be an awfully big adventure. [J.M. Barrie](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jm-barrie.md) · [Peter Pan](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jm-barrie/peter-pan.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jm-barrie/peter-pan/to-die-will.md) Topics: [death](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/death.md), [adventure](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/adventure.md) > Never say ‘no’ to adventures. Always say ‘yes’, otherwise you’ll lead a very dull life. [Ian Fleming](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ian-fleming.md) · [Chitty Chitty Bang Bang: The Magical Car](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ian-fleming/chitty-chitty-bang-bang-the-magical-car.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ian-fleming/chitty-chitty-bang-bang-the-magical-car/never-say-no-to-adventures.md) Topics: [risk](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/risk.md), [adventure](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/adventure.md) > The achievement of the hero is one that he is ready for and it's really a manifestation of his character. It's amusing the way in which the landscape and conditions of the environment match the readiness of the hero. The adventure that he is ready for is the one that he gets … The adventure evoked a quality of his character that he didn't know he possessed. [Joseph Campbell](https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-campbell.md) · [The Power of Myth](https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-campbell/the-power-of-myth.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-campbell/the-power-of-myth/the-achievement-of-the.md) Topics: [character](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/character.md), [heroism](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/heroism.md), [adventure](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/adventure.md) > As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts. [Herman Melville](https://www.leafyquotes.com/herman-melville.md) · [Moby-Dick](https://www.leafyquotes.com/herman-melville/moby-dick.md) · p. 6 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/herman-melville/moby-dick/as-for-me.md) Topics: [travel](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/travel.md), [adventure](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/adventure.md) > I am sorry: sorry you have come in for this burden; sorry about everything. Don't adventures ever have an end? I suppose not. Someone else always has to carry on the story. [J. R. R. Tolkien](https://www.leafyquotes.com/j-r-r-tolkien.md) · [The Fellowship of the Ring](https://www.leafyquotes.com/j-r-r-tolkien/the-fellowship-of-the-ring.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/j-r-r-tolkien/the-fellowship-of-the-ring/i-am-sorry.md) Topics: [storytelling](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/storytelling.md), [adventure](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/adventure.md) > Still round the corner there may wait > > A new road or a secret gate, > > And though we pass them by today, > > Tomorrow we may come this way > > And take the hidden paths that run > > Towards the Moon or to the Sun. [J. R. R. Tolkien](https://www.leafyquotes.com/j-r-r-tolkien.md) · [The Fellowship of the Ring](https://www.leafyquotes.com/j-r-r-tolkien/the-fellowship-of-the-ring.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/j-r-r-tolkien/the-fellowship-of-the-ring/still-round-the.md) Topics: [travel](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/travel.md), [adventure](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/adventure.md) > He used often to say there was only one Road; that it was like a great river: its springs were at every doorstep, and every path was its tributary. "It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out of your door," he used to say. "You step into the Road, and if you don't keep your feet, there is no knowing where you might be swept off to." [J. R. R. Tolkien](https://www.leafyquotes.com/j-r-r-tolkien.md) · [The Fellowship of the Ring](https://www.leafyquotes.com/j-r-r-tolkien/the-fellowship-of-the-ring.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/j-r-r-tolkien/the-fellowship-of-the-ring/he-used-often.md) Topics: [travel](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/travel.md), [adventure](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/adventure.md) > The Road goes ever on and on > > Down from the door where it began. > > Now far ahead the Road has gone, > > And I must follow, if I can, > > Pursuing it with eager feet, > > Until it joins some larger way > > Where many paths and errands meet. > > And whither then? I cannot say. [J. R. R. Tolkien](https://www.leafyquotes.com/j-r-r-tolkien.md) · [The Fellowship of the Ring](https://www.leafyquotes.com/j-r-r-tolkien/the-fellowship-of-the-ring.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/j-r-r-tolkien/the-fellowship-of-the-ring/the-road-goes.md) Topics: [travel](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/travel.md), [adventure](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/adventure.md) > Tristran sat at the top of the spire of cloud and wondered why none of the heroes of the penny dreadfuls he used to read so avidly were ever hungry. His stomach rumbled, and his hand hurt him so. > > Adventures are all very well in their place, he thought, but there's a lot to be said for regular meals and freedom from pain. > > Still, he was alive, and the wind was in his hair, and the cloud was scudding through the sky like a galleon at full sail. Looking out over the world from above, he could never remember feeling so alive as he did at that moment. There was a skyness to the sky and a nowness to the world that he had never seen or felt or realized before. > > He understood that he was, in some way, above his problems, just as he was above the world. [Neil Gaiman](https://www.leafyquotes.com/neil-gaiman.md) · [Stardust](https://www.leafyquotes.com/neil-gaiman/stardust.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/neil-gaiman/stardust/tristran-sat-at-the.md) Topics: [life](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/life.md), [adventure](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/adventure.md) > Adventures do occur, but not punctually. [E.M. Forster](https://www.leafyquotes.com/em-forster.md) · [A Passage to India](https://www.leafyquotes.com/em-forster/a-passage-to-india.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/em-forster/a-passage-to-india/adventures-do-occur.md) Topics: [humor](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/humor.md), [adventure](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/adventure.md)