"To love would be an awfully big adventure."
— J.M. Barrie (Peter Pan)

"Remember what Bilbo used to say: It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to...

- Frodo to Sam"
— J.R.R. Tolkien

"Let us step into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince)

"Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?"

"That depends a good deal on where you want to get to."

"I don't much care where –"

"Then it doesn't matter which way you go."
— Lewis Carroll (Alice in Wonderland)

"The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams."
— Oprah Winfrey

"The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

"Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving."
— Terry Pratchett (A Hat Full of Sky)

"Life is a blank canvas, and you need to throw all the paint on it you can."
— Danny Kaye

"Never fear quarrels, but seek hazardous adventures."
— Alexandre Dumas

"I have stolen princesses back from sleeping barrow kings. I burned down the town of Trebon. I have spent the night with Felurian and left with both my sanity and my life. I was expelled from the University at a younger age than most people are allowed in. I tread paths by moonlight that others fear to speak of during day. I have talked to gods, loved women, and written songs that make the minstrels weep. You may have hear of me."
— Patrick Rothfuss

""If you don't take risks, you'll have a wasted soul.""
— Drew Barrymore

"You're never too young to die."
— Anthony Horowitz (Stormbreaker)

"No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time."
— Lewis Carroll (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass)

"You know you are truly alive when you’re living among lions."
— Isak Dinesen (Out of Africa)

"A lie travels half-way around the world while the truth is still putting on its boots."
— Mark Twain

"Follow the yellow brick road"
— Judy Garland

"Adventure, yeah. I guess that's what you call it when everybody comes back alive."
— Mercedes Lackey (Spirits White as Lightning)

"A darkness different from Ember's, but just as frightening..."
— Jeanne DuPrau (The Diamond of Darkhold (The Ember Series, #4))

"I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing."
— Herman Melville (Moby Dick)

""'I am looking for someone to share in an adventure that I am arranging, and it's very difficult to find anyone.' 'I should think so — in these parts! We are plain quiet folk and have no use for adventures. Nasty disturbing uncomfortable things! Make you late for dinner!'" — Gandalf and Bilbo, "
— jrr tolkein

"I always secretly looked forward to nothing going as planned. That way, I wasn't limited by my imagination. That way, anything can, and always did, happen."
— Crimethinc

"Yet all experience is an arch wherethrough
Gleams that untraveled world whose margin fades
Forever and forever when I move.
How dull it is to pause, to make an end,
To rust unburnished, not to shine in use!
As though to breathe were life!
"
— Alfred Lord Tennyson

""Why O why did I ever leave my hobbit-hole?" said poor Mr. Baggins, bumping up and down on Bombur's back. "
— J.R.R. Tolkien (The Hobbit: Or There and Back Again)

"Hither came Conan, the Cimmerian, black-haired, sullen-eyed, sword in hand, a thief, a reaver, a slayer, with gigantic melancholies and gigantic mirth, to tread the jeweled thrones of the Earth under his sandalled feet."
— Robert E. Howard

""All we are is dust in the wind," dude."
— Ted Logan

"Life's most beautiful and inspiring moments occur at 3am, just prowling, looking for nothing but always finding something."
— Crimethinc (Evasion)

"Who would wave a flag to be rescued if they had a desert island of their own? That was the thing that spoilt Robinson Crusoe. In the end he came home. There never ought to be an end."
— Arthur Ransome

"Bill and Ted are working on their history report]
Bill: Okay, Ted, George Washington. One: the father of our country.
Ted: Two: born on President's Day.
Bill: Three: the dollar bill guy.
Ted: Bill, you ever made a mushroom out of his head? It's like, just like...
Bill: Ted. Alaska.
Ted: Okay. Um... Had wooden teeth, chased Moby Dick.
Bill: That's Captain Ahab, dude. "
— Bill and Ted's E

"...I have set my life upon a cast,
And I will stand the hazard of the die."
— William Shakespeare (The Tragedy of King Richard III)

"His name was Rambo, and he was just some nothing kid for all anybody knew, standing by the pump of a gas station at the outskirts of Madison, Kentucky."
— David Morrell (First Blood)

"Others found the implication odd that they could live their way forever- working and drinking and watching TV- and why they would want to."
— Crimethinc (Evasion)

""A darkness different from Ember's, but just as frightening...""
— Jeanne DuPrau (The Diamond of Darkhold (The Ember Series, #4))

"I have discovered that even the mediocre can have adventures and even the fearful can achieve."
— Edmund Hillary

"Слънцето трябва да залезе и да се издигне месецът, докато Кайро се отвори като мида и се разкире красотата му в силуетите."
...
"Някои палми накланят глави сред вятъра, нощта е чудна във всеки отрязък, благодарение на собствените и на чуждите духове,а той, самотният пътешественик, не може да си представи мръсния, припрян, пронизителен и потискащ живот през деня."
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"Понякога напращелият град се уригваше. Всичко миришеше на разложения от стомашни сокове. Накрая на улицата лежеше полусмялно слепоочие, което щеше скоро да се разтече. Една лъжица загребваше от месестата част на презряла папая, на връщане от пазара петите не излъхваха пот,а кориандър. Той не знаеше какво го отвращаваше повече, морският бриз, по време на отлива, носещ гнилия дъх на водорасли и плажни медузи, или уханията на мюсюлманската закуска от вътрешности на коза, запържвани върху малки печки. Пътеката на човечеството бе постлана с коварни изкушения."
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"Най-непоносими са шумовете: гукащите гълъби в отворения шкаф, дрезгавогласни и свадливи от любовно усърдие, огромните котки, които минават през скелето на покрива и ридаят от ненаситна разгоненост."
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"Те рецитираха първата сура, фатихах, насочили длани към небето, сякаш искаха да уловят някакво благословение, което слизаше от небето върху кораба."
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"Ричард Франсис Бъртън умря рано сутринта, когато нишките бяло и черно бяха неразличими. Над главата му висеше една персийска калиграфия на която пишеше:
И това ще отмине."
— Ilija Trojanow (Der Weltensammler.)

"Obviously you have forgotten that it is financially unfeasible for us to sell our book on Amazon. They cannot fulfill orders for either book. "
— Jennifer Goetz & Pamela Joan Young

"He had fought wizards (though not because he wished to), battled goblinkin (only because running hadn't been an option at the time), and faced incredible monsters (drat the luck he sometimes had when he thought about it)."
— Mel Odom (The Quest for the Trilogy: Boneslicer: Book One of the Trilogy)