90 Adventure Quotes For Inspiration

Have you ever felt the irresistible pull of the unknown, the thrill of venturing into uncharted territories, or the excitement of embracing the unexpected? Adventure is a powerful, transformative force that beckons to the explorer within us all. Whether you're planning your next great escapade or simply seeking a burst of motivation to break free from the mundane, our curated collection of the top 90 adventure quotes will spark your wanderlust and reignite your passion for discovery. Join us as we delve into words of wisdom from intrepid adventurers, beloved authors, and inspiring visionaries who remind us that life is meant to be lived boldly and with an unrelenting spirit of curiosity.

1. “To die will be an awfully big adventure.” - J.M. Barrie

2. “Never fear quarrels, but seek hazardous adventures.” - Alexandre Dumas

3. “Let us step into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure.” - J.K. Rowling

4. “The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.” - Oprah Winfrey

5. “One final paragraph of advice: do not burn yourselves out. Be as I am - a reluctant enthusiast....a part-time crusader, a half-hearted fanatic. Save the other half of yourselves and your lives for pleasure and adventure. It is not enough to fight for the land; it is even more important to enjoy it. While you can. While it’s still here. So get out there and hunt and fish and mess around with your friends, ramble out yonder and explore the forests, climb the mountains, bag the peaks, run the rivers, breathe deep of that yet sweet and lucid air, sit quietly for a while and contemplate the precious stillness, the lovely, mysterious, and awesome space. Enjoy yourselves, keep your brain in your head and your head firmly attached to the body, the body active and alive, and I promise you this much; I promise you this one sweet victory over our enemies, over those desk-bound men and women with their hearts in a safe deposit box, and their eyes hypnotized by desk calculators. I promise you this; You will outlive the bastards.” - Edward Abbey

6. “If you don't take risks, you'll have a wasted soul.” - Drew Barrymore

7. “An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.” - G.K. Chesterton

8. “Life is a blank canvas, and you need to throw all the paint on it you can.” - Danny Kaye

9. “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

10. “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

11. “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

12. “There are all kinds of silences and each of them means a different thing. There is the silence that comes with morning in a forest, and this is different from the silence of a sleeping city. There is silence after a rainstorm, and before a rainstorm, and these are not the same. There is the silence of emptiness, the silence of fear, the silence of doubt. There is a certain silence that can emanate from a lifeless object as from a chair lately used, or from a piano with old dust upon its keys, or from anything that has answered to the need of a man, for pleasure or for work. This kind of silence can speak. Its voice may be melancholy, but it is not always so; for the chair may have been left by a laughing child or the last notes of the piano may have been raucous and gay. Whatever the mood or the circumstance, the essence of its quality may linger in the silence that follows. It is a soundless echo.” - Beryl Markham

13. “A darkness different from Ember's, but just as frightening...” - Jeanne DuPrau

14. “Life's most beautiful and inspiring moments occur at 3am, just prowling, looking for nothing but always finding something.” - Nigel Davis

15. “Everything was an adventure, at night, when you were where you shouldn't be, even if it was somwhere you could go perfectly well in daylight, and it was then only ordinary.” - Robin McKinley

16. “One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.” - Andre Gide

17. “Maybe there is another who sees life not as a flickering candle but as a torch that can illuminate an undiscovered world.” - Jimmy Buffett

18. “All great adventures have moments that are really crap.” - Ellen Potter

19. “I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.” - Herman Melville

20. “Adventures do occur, but not punctually.” - E.M. Forster

21. “Adventure,' then, is what might otherwise be called hardship if it were attempted in a different spirit. Turning a difficult task or a perilous journey into an adventure is largely a matter of telling yourself the right story about it, which is one thing that Lewis's child characters have learned from reading, 'the right books.” - Laura Miller

22. “Oh! That was poetry!" said Pippin. "Do you really mean to start before the break of day?” - J.R.R. Tolkien

23. “I didn't say no because between safety and adventure I choose adventure.” - Craig Ferguson

24. “ i had a dream when i was 22 that someday i would go to the region of ice and snow and go on and on till i came to one of the poles of the earth” - Ernest Shackleton

25. “In ancient days, Deltora was divided into seven tribes. The tribesfought on their borders but otherwise stayed in their own place. Each had a gem from deep within the Earth, a talisman with special powers.” - Emily Rodda

26. “Because a sound tree doesn't have bad roots, Amara. No enterprise of greatnessbegins with treachery, with lying to the people who trust and love you” - Jim Butcher

27. “Make everything an adventure. Otherwise, it will suck.” - Nita Morgan

28. “Give to the world the best you have and the best will come back to you.” - Myrna Ericksen

29. “Do you know how fast you are walking? ... To get a close estimate, count the number of steps you take in a minute and divide by 30... :)” - Albina Fabiani

30. “With his revelation,...I shattered into a million shards. I felt each piece as it splintered and separated from the whole like a glass I had broken the day before. Debris flew everywhere. It left me without any option but to pick each broken piece up, analyze it, and find out where it belonged. I had to find out where I belonged. Allison La Crosse - Warriors of the Cross” - T.R. Graves

31. “This isn't my last brush with catastrophe while making Destination Truth. Rather, it's merely the opening act in a cabaret of close calls, all in the name of exploration. I'm not saying that making D.T. is dangerous; it's not, per se. It's just that when you go out of your way to find adventure, sometimes adventure bites you on the ass. The key is figuring out how to walk away in one piece.” - Josh Gates

32. “What is real and what is not is for your heart to decide and for your heart to know.” - Colleen Houck

33. “We are trapped here up on this wall by an evil beyond comprehension. It is here that we are damned to remain for all eternity, under the grime of centuries, beyond time. When even the paint falls off and these prison-canvases are bare again… well, then we are in limbo,” the poor man opened his eyes wide giving them a ghostly look.” - Nathalie M. Leblanc

34. “A fallow mind is a field of discontent.” - John H. Cunningham

35. “In my fantasies, I was always caught up in heroic struggles, and I saw myself saving lives, sacrificing myself for others. I had far loftier ambitions than mere romance.” - Irene Opdyke

36. “Here be dragons to be slain, here be rich rewards to gain;If we perish in the seeking, why, how small a thing is death!” - Dorothy L. Sayers

37. “A smart person is not one that knows the answers, but one who knows where to find them...” - William Petersen

38. “Etta gave Will a small, knowing smile. "Will, sometimes you have to love people for who they are, not who you want them to be.” - Deanna Lynn Sletten

39. “A year jammed full of adventure and misadventure, strides forward and many steps backward, another year in my topsy-turvy, Jekyll-and-Hyde existence.” - Anthony Kiedis

40. “For several moments, Mary couldn't hear anything over the violent pounding of her pulse.” - Y.S. Lee

41. “I knew then that I wanted to go home, but I had no home to go to--and that is what adventures are all about.” - Trina Schart Hyman

42. “Arrogance and Conceit are the mother and father of a closed mind.Charles Jennings, "Journey of the Chosen".” - Richard Nance

43. “The quest for a lost city erodes your body, damaging you beyond all reason. But it is your mind that bears the heaviest toll. Listen to the doubters, the worriers and the weak, and the vaguest hope of success evaporates.” - Tahir Shah

44. “Only a man who has his health, a full stomach and wears clean clothes would ever entertain the notion of tracking down the greatest lost city on Earth.” - Tahir Shah

45. “My journey to the land of the Shuar tribe had taught me the importance of practical gifts.” - Tahir Shah

46. “Running an expedition can bring out the worst in a man. It can make you a power-crazed monster.” - Tahir Shah

47. “That’s where they found the skeletons. Right where you’re standing.” - Teresa Flavin

48. “The riders, clad in crimson and black, stopped to scan the maze. Blaise shrank into the hedge, but one keen-eyed hunter spied him. He raised his crossbow, took careful aim and fired.” - Teresa Flavin

49. “Matt was almost completely naked. A tattered loincloth and an ugly chain with a yellow diamond were his only apparel.” - Priya Ardis

50. “I caught his hand. “What do you want me to do?”Leaning down, he kissed the pulse beating on my neck just above the damaged skin. “Tomorrow, I need you to die.” - Priya Ardis

51. “I do not insist," answered Don Quixote, "that this is a full adventure, but it is the beginning of one, for this is the way adventures begin.” - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

52. “She did it, though she hated opera. She hated everything about it. The overblown sense of drama. The violence and lewdness. No one had ever died of heartbreak in Reverie. Betrayal never led to murder. Those things didn’t happen anymore. They had the Realms now. They could experience anything without taking risks. Now, life was Better than Real.” - Veronica Rossi

53. “Le sabordage de l'âme devrait être enseigné dans les écoles de marine".Le Voyageur de l'inquiétude” - Olivier Weber

54. “La littérature est un théâtre à ciel ouvert qui permet de transformer les êtres les plus simples en héros universels, loin des parterres présomptueux.Conrad, Le Voyageur de l'inquiétude” - Olivier Weber

55. “Les personnages de nos autres vies sont des fantômes que la littérature fait revivre.” - Olivier Weber

56. “Only a few days earlier he had explained to her that he did not merely read books but traveled with them, that they took him to other countries and unfamiliar continents, and that with their help he was always getting to know new people, many of whom even became his friends.” - Jan-Philipp Sendker

57. “Our great adventure ran out of petrol and stopped on this farm.” - Steven Herrick

58. “Books pull you to other worlds ... let them, and enjoy the adventure.” - H.B. Bolton

59. “...Don't insult readers by questioning the extent of their imaginations. Most need only to be nudged to solve a good mystery.” - Peggy Kopman-Owens

60. “We threw ourselves at that wild river every day and most days it tossed us all harmlessly skyward like well-loved children. After a while that does something to you.” - Jo Deurbrouck

61. “It's not "jalan-jalan" nor "liburan". It's just something we do naturally. Like breathing and eating. It's basically living.” - Riana Ambarsari

62. “What if I don’t like adventure?Then cultivate a taste for it. Take a chance. That’s how you grow.” - Wally Lamb

63. “There are people in this world so rich that when it rains they simply fly away on private jets in search of sun.” - Peggy Kopman-Owens

64. “How could I ever forget my best friend, the man, who had changed my destiny simply by allowing me to write about him?” - Peggy Kopman-Owens

65. “In any age, there is no shortage of people willing to embark on a hazardous adventure. Columbus and Magellan filled eight ships between them for voyages into the void. One hundred and fifty years ago, the possibilities offered by missionary service were limitless and first-rate. Later, Scott and Shackleton turned away droves after filling their crews for their desperate Antarctic voyages. In 1959 ... sailor H.W. Tilman, looking for a crew for a voyage in an old wooden yacht to the Southern Ocean, ran this ad in the London Times: "Hand [man] wanted for long voyage in small boat. No pay, no prospects, not much pleasure." Tilman received more replies than he could investigate, one from as far away as Saigon.” - Peter Nichols

66. “Why should men be allowed to strut under the privilege of their life adventures, wearing them like a breast full of medals, while women went all gray and silent beneath the weight of theirs?” - Carol Shields

67. “This would become a lifelong pattern, sitting in my comfort zone high above the world in some sort of self-imposed exile.” - Peggy Kopman-Owens

68. “You are dead, you know!” he screeched delightedly, “Come on Miss Wright! Die! Die! DIE!” - William Axtell

69. “Besides, I am staying in a luxurious hotel, not in some slum!”.Sand of Passion” - Georgia Kakalopoulou

70. “Treading the soil of the moon, palpating its pebbles, tasting the panic and splendor of the event, feeling in the pit of one's stomach the separation from terra... these form the most romantic sensation an explorer has ever known...” - Vladimir Nabokov

71. “He’d used the amulet to read my thoughts again. I pictured smacking him in the face.” - Priya Ardis

72. “I noticed him right away. No, it wasn’t his lean, rugged face. Or the dark waves of shiny hair that hung just a little too long on his forehead. It wasn’t the slim, collarless biker jacket he wore, hugging his lean shoulders. It was the way he stood. The confident way he waited in the cafeteria line to get a slice of pizza. He didn’t saunter. He didn’t amble. He stood at the center, and let the other people buzz around him. His stance was straight and sure.” - Priya Ardis

73. “Where are we?" Ni asked."This is my work place and the center ofUniverse as well." Simone said."Do you mean the tower is in the center of Universe?" Ni asked“I mean that we are both in space and inside the tower at the same time.""Why is it so dark here?" Ni asked."At the beginning, it is always dark." Simone replied, "Then everything comes into existence little by little.Even Light is born out of Darkness.” - Leora Cika Waldman

74. “This time Simone did not smile at all."I cannot tell that to you, child. This is asecret I am not allowed to talk about. I only hope that you willknow how to follow the true and right path. And now, farewell!" Sheturned around and walked away between the bookshelves, disappearingfrom their sight.Nirupa looked at the book she held in herhand. On its thick front cover she read:"Atlantis."Deep shudders shook her body. She turned herhead and looked at Miss Bell, who also looked numb with fear."Now that we have started the adventure, memust carry it through to the end," Ni whispered to Miss Bell,opening the book. She did not have time to see what was writteninside because, once the first page was open, a whirl of warm airsucked Ni and Miss. Bell inside, In the twinkle of an eye theyfound themselves standing up on the main street of a magnificentbazaar.” - Leora Cika Waldman

75. “Go to the edge of the cliff and jump off. Build your wings on the way down.--Ray Bradbury” - T.K. Thorne

76. “We must remember that the mortals prefer plant-life for food, for next time.”The other statue nodded in agreement and replied. “Yes. Every day we learn new things Donkor. These mortals have some funny ways don’t they?” - Quest Two: The Cursed Nile” - S.W. Lothian

77. “When an American family becomes separated from its toothbrushes and combs and pajamas for a few hours it considers that it has had quite an adventure.” - E.B. White

78. “Wisdom Is The Principal Thing” - kayode Infomart

79. “I do not wish to travel around the world. I already have the world trying to travel around me.” - Lionel Suggs

80. “ I knew then that I would devote every minute we had left together to making her happy, to repairing the pain I had caused her and returning to her what I never known how to give her. These pages will be our memory until she drows her last breath in my arms and I take her forever and escape at last to a place where neither heaven nor hell will ever be able to find us. ” - Carlos Ruiz Zafon

81. “I wanted a life full of intrigue and mystery, new environments, and new people...[a] temporary life with no fear of being trapped,” - Addy Stevens

82. “You can make it if you try. Don't give up or quit the fight. If you believe, you will see, you can do it.” - Robert Karl Hanson

83. “Oh I know it's cliché but yeah they say that great men make it in-To places few others who even do take the risk've ever been” - Criss Jami

84. “Dengan petualangan kecil itu dia jadi bisa belajar banyak tentang hakikat hidup.” - Gola Gong

85. “Success is hard, rewards are scant and the glory not always there.” - Billie-Jo Williams

86. “It's crazy. My life has been full of fun and adventure. but i love meeting people who make me feel like I've done nothing.” - Darnell Lamont Walker

87. “If there is passion, let me feel its heat.I want my heart to beat fast,my breath raspy, my skin to burn.” - Susie Clevenger

88. “You can't show me the Earth from space and fly right past the moon, entice me into this magical machine and invite me to come with you, and then ask me to stay behind!” - Elizabeth Newton

89. “Love can give you such happiness, then can break the very heart it filled, leaving a hole that can never be fixed or protected by any armour.” - Kevin McLeod

90. “Chapter 9 - Marissa's Lake:“We’ve got incoming,” said Benter scrambling up, grabbing Jake’s arm and running back into the snake tunnel almost dragging Jake until he righted himself and jerked loose from Benter’s hold. At a dead run, they rounded the bend that had previously led to the red sky. The crashing noise of falling rock echoed by them and they backed up to the side of the tunnel. Benter held his finger up to his mouth. He slowly edged forward to peek back beyond the bend. The colossal dragon tried to dig and burn its way into the tunnel, but it was ten times the size of the tunnel opening. The beast inhaled a deep breath, seemingly to suck every bit of air from the tunnel. Benter felt himself breathe harder, becoming lightheaded. The dragon continued to inhale and Benter realized the exhale would be a huge fire bomb. “RUN!” yelled Benter, but Jake had read his mind and was already ahead of him running as fast as he could. Within seconds of their exit the dragon released the fire missile and great licking flames raced towards them in a hungry fervor.” - M.K. McDaniel