Quotes about Adventure
Our village life would stagnate if it were not for the unexplored forests and meadows that surround it. We need the tonic of wildness...
— Henry David Thoreau
We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.
— Henry David Thoreau
I have learned that the swiftest traveler is he that goes afoot.
— Henry David Thoreau
It matters not where or how far you travel,--the farther commonly the worse,--but how much alive you are.
— Henry David Thoreau
Not till we are completely lost or turned around, do we begin to find ourselves.
— Henry David Thoreau
We should go forth on the shortest walk, perchance, in the spirit of undying adventure, never to return—prepared to send back our embalmed hearts only as relics to our desolate kingdoms.
— Henry David Thoreau
I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.
— Henry David Thoreau
But man's capacities have never been measured; nor are we to judge of what he can do by any precedents, so little has been tried.
— Henry David Thoreau
I love to sail forbidden seas and land on barbarous coasts.
— Herman Melville
Toes are scarce among veteran blubber-room men.
— Herman Melville
With other men, perhaps, such things would not have been inducements; but 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
With a philosophical flourish Cato throws himself upon his sword; I quietly take to the ship. There is nothing surprising in this.
— Herman Melville