98 Inspiring Adventure Quotes

Embarking on an adventure is one of life's greatest joys. It fuels our curiosity, ignites our spirits, and sometimes even transforms the way we perceive the world around us. Whether you're scaling majestic mountains, exploring uncharted waters, or simply dreaming of your next getaway, the call of adventure is an irresistible force. To inspire your journey, we've curated a collection of the top 98 inspiring adventure quotes. These words, drawn from the experiences and wisdom of adventurers, poets, and thinkers, will not only spark your wanderlust but also remind you of the limitless possibilities that await when you embrace the unknown. Dive in and let these quotes be your guide to a life filled with exploration and wonder.

1. “What is that feeling when you're driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? - it's the too-huge world vaulting us, and it's good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.” - Jack Kerouac

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

3. “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

4. “In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.” - Ansel Adams

5. “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

6. “To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement.” - St. Augustine of Hippo

7. “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

8. “You're never too young to die.” - Anthony Horowitz

9. “Adventure is not outside man; it is within.” - George Eliot

10. “Keep reading. It's one of the most marvelous adventures that anyone can have.” - Lloyd Alexander

11. “Look, when do the really interesting things happen? Not when you've brushed your teeth and put on your pyjamas and are cozy in bed. They happen when you are cold and uncomfortable and hungry and don't have a roof over your head for the night.” - Ellen Potter

12. “Adventures are what happens when an event is flawed, a mark of imperfection.” - Kij Johnson

13. “Here’s to freedom, cheers to art. Here’s to having an excellent adventure and may the stopping never start.” - Jason Mraz

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

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

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

17. “I had spent many nights in the jungle looking for game, but this was the first time I had ever spent a night looking for a man-eater. The length of road immediately in front of me was brilliantly lit by the moon, but to right and left the overhanging trees cast dark shadows, and when the night wind agitated the branches and the shadows moved, I saw a dozen tigers advancing on me, and bitterly regretted the impulse that had induced me to place myself at the man-eater's mercy. I lacked the courage to return to the village and admit I was too frightened to carry out my self-imposed task, and with teeth chattering, as much from fear as from cold, I sat out the long night. As the grey dawn was lighting up the snowy range which Iwas facing, I rested my head on my drawn-up knees, and it was in this position my men an hour later found me fast asleep; of the tiger I had neither heard nor seen anything.” - Jim Corbett

18. “I was on one of my world 'walkabouts.' It had taken me once more through Hong Kong, to Japan, Australia, and then Papua New Guinea in the South Pacific [one of the places I grew up]. There I found the picture of 'the Father.' It was a real, gigantic Saltwater Crocodile (whose picture is now featured on page 1 of TEETH). From that moment, 'the Father' began to swim through the murky recesses of my mind. Imagine! I thought, men confronting the world’s largest reptile on its own turf! And what if they were stripped of their firearms, so they must face this force of nature with nothing but hand weapons and wits?We know that neither whales nor sharks hunt individual humans for weeks on end. But, Dear Reader, crocodiles do! They are intelligent predators that choose their victims and plot their attacks. So, lost on its river, how would our heroes escape a great hunter of the Father’s magnitude? And what if these modern men must also confront the headhunters and cannibals who truly roam New Guinea? What of tribal wars, the coming of Christianity and materialism (the phenomenon known as the 'Cargo Cult'), and the people’s introduction to 'civilization' in the form of world war? What of first contact between pristine tribal culture and the outside world? What about tribal clashes on a global scale—the hatred and enmity between America and Japan, from Pearl Harbor, to the only use in history of atomic weapons? And if the world could find peace at last, how about Johnny and Katsu?” - Timothy James Dean

19. “Mountains seem to answer an increasing imaginative need in the West. More and more people are discovering a desire for them, and a powerful solace in them. At bottom, mountains, like all wildernesses, challenge our complacent conviction - so easy to lapse into - that the world has been made for humans by humans. Most of us exist for most of the time in worlds which are humanly arranged, themed and controlled. One forgets that there are environments which do not respond to the flick of a switch or the twist of a dial, and which have their own rhythms and orders of existence. Mountains correct this amnesia. By speaking of greater forces than we can possibly invoke, and by confronting us with greater spans of time than we can possibly envisage, mountains refute our excessive trust in the man-made. They pose profound questions about our durability and the importance of our schemes. They induce, I suppose, a modesty in us.” - Robert MacFarlane

20. “News of Daniel's disappearance does not alarm me as it might have done a week ago. Given recent events, very little alarms me as it might have done a week ago. I feel as if my supply of alarm has been exhausted, at least temporarily.” - Patricia C. Wrede

21. “Adventures are only interesting once you've lived to see the end of them. Before that, they are nothing but fear, and being too cold or too hot or too wet or too hungry, and getting hurt.” - Holly Lisle

22. “Go small, go simple, go now” - larry pardey

23. “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

24. “A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.” - Charles Dickens

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

26. “A hero called Adin rose from the ranks of the people. He was an ordinary man, a blacksmith who made swords and armor and shoes for horses. But he had been blessed with strsngth, courage, and cleverness. ” - Emily Rodda

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

28. “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

29. “There is no point of adventure if you have known about everything.I wonder how God deals with the situation, considering the boredom.” - Toba Beta

30. “Adventure is a need.” - Toba Beta

31. “I don’t think I’ve ever referred to any girl I dated as my girlfriend. I think that would freak me out. Even the girl that I dated for two years in college I don’t think I ever referred to her as my girlfriend.”“How would you introduce her?” I asked.“I’m just going to say her name,” he said.” - Daniel Amory

32. “The kipper was in a race for it's life, and it knew it. It used all the skill its Maker had given it and drew the creature far away from the craft, to be sacrifice in the end. It was a fitting task for the kipper. But...there is a thing about monsters. They remember.” - Kathy Frias

33. “Being soaked alone is cold. Being soaked with your best friend is an adventure.” - Emily Wing Smith

34. “You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope, as old as your despair." Douglas MacArthur” - Terri Marie

35. “I'm not prepared for Rue's family. Her parents, whose faces are still fresh with sorrow. Her fiver younger siblings, who resemble her so closely. The slight builds, the luminous brown eyes. They form a flock of small dark birds.” - Suzanne Collins

36. “It is our time, our task and our destiny - from "Opoponax Dreams” - Genieve Dawkins

37. “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

38. “Rocinante was of more value for a true traveller than a jet plane. Jet planes were for business men.” - Graham Greene

39. “Those who travel to mountain-tops are half in love with themselves, and half in love with oblivion.” - Robert MacFarlane

40. “Instructions For WayfarersThey will declare: Every journey has been taken.You shall respond: I have not been to see myself.They will insist: Everything has been spoken.You shall reply: I have not had my say.They will tell you: Everything has been done.You shall reply: My way is not complete.You are warned: Any way is long, any way is hard.Fear not. You are the gate - you, the gatekeeper.And you shall go through and on . . .—Alexandros Evangelou Xenopouloudakis,THIRD WISH” - Robert Fulghum

41. “When I grow up, maybe I will bethe first one to circle the sea.Or maybe I will just spend all my daydoing everything my way.Maybe I will be in a world of my ownI just hope not alone.I just know that whatever I doI will never, ever forget about you.” - Oliver Neubert

42. “Like lost children we live our unfinished adventures.” - Guy Debord

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. “There are two ways to find a lost city. The first is to rely on luck alone, the second is to control all the information.” - Tahir Shah

46. “In some warped way, having an embalmed body with us made perfect sense.” - Tahir Shah

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

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. “In moments of great uncertainty on my travels, I have always felt that something is protecting me, that I will come to no harm.” - Tahir Shah

50. “It’s the unknown that draws people.” - E.A. Bucchianeri

51. “Love, like everything else in life, should be a discovery, an adventure, and like most adventures, you don’t know you’re having one until you’re right in the middle of it.” - E.A. Bucchianeri

52. “When they reached their ship, Ed gazed out at the bay. It was black. The sky was black, but the bay was even blacker. It was a slick, oily blackness that glowed and reflected the moonlight like a black jewel. Ed saw the tiny specks of light around the edges of the bay where he knew ships must be docked, and at different points within the bay where vessels would be anchored. The lights were pale and sickly yellow when compared with the bright blue-white sparkle of the stars overhead, but the stars glinted hard as diamonds, cold as ice. Pg. 26.” - Clark Zlotchew

53. “Les secrets rendent le désir encore plus fou.” - Olivier Weber

54. “Too much mystery is merely an annoyance. Too much adventure is exhausting. And a little terror goes a long way.” - Dean Koontz

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

56. “... and her name was Freedom.” - Pam Munoz Ryan

57. “...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

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

59. “They told me adventures were over, so I got off the internet and got on a plane. They told me kindness was a thing of the past, so I spent a year helping others in need. They told me love was dead, so I fell into it. Head over heels.” - Abby Lass

60. “Beware. Those with the least amount of authority exercise it the most often.” - Peggy Kopman-Owens

61. “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

62. “Sometimes, reality is the illusion, and the truth only visible where our eyes can’t see.”- Lady Lalaigne” - Jeanine Henning

63. “I'm an adventurer, looking for treasure” - Paulo Coelho

64. “No–one believes they’re a hero. But that doesn’t mean they’re not heroic - Captain Spectre.” - Kevin Outlaw

65. “What shall we do, what shall we do! Escaping goblins to be caught by wolves is like out of the frying pan and into the fire!” - J.R.R. Tolkien

66. “It is not required that we know all of the details about every stretch of the river. Indeed, were we to know, it would not be an adventure, and I wonder if there would be much point in the journey.” - Jeffrey R. Anderson

67. “Do you think we can be friends?” I asked.He stared up at the ceiling. “Probably not, but we can pretend.” - Priya Ardis

68. “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

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

70. “Still, I could find no good reason for not going. So I decided to go.” - Nicolette Milnes Walker

71. “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

72. “This is one of the goals of the Jewish way of living: to experience commonplace deeds as spiritual adventures, to feel the hidden love and wisdom in all things.” - Abraham Joshua Heschel

73. “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

74. “I am as devoted to adventure now as then, and that’s never going to stop.” - William Goldman

75. “Every day God invites us on the same kind of adventure. It's not a trip where He sends us a rigid itinerary, He simply invites us. God asks what it is He's made us to love, what it is that captures our attention, what feeds that deep indescribable need of our souls to experience the richness of the world He made. And then, leaning over us, He whispers, "Let's go do that together.” - Bob Goff

76. “The adrenaline and stress of an adventure are better than a thousand peaceful days.” - Paulo Coelho

77. “His cell-phone rang. Dominic fumbled for it on the nightstand next to the couch, the dim lights not helping his endeavour. He had piercing, generic, banal fluorescent lights on his face all the time at work and at University, it was so bad it made him loathe even natural sunlight. Lucky this apartment’s living room light had a dimmer. He flipped open his phone and said hello. ‘Hey Dom, how you doin’?’ a voice boomed. It was Ben. They proceeded to talk about the upcoming exams, which were deceptively close as it was week 10 at the moment. Yes, they would be alright. Yes, they would meet up afterwards. No, he hadn’t studied more than Ben had. As he clapped the phone closed after the genial conversation reached its natural nadir, he had forgotten most of what had been said” - T.P. Grish

78. “If you act for self-gain then no good can come of it. If you act selflessly, then you act well for all and you must not be afraid.” - Rand Miller

79. “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

80. “Adventure: the pursuit of life.” - Jenny Radcliffe

81. “The smell of dead fish lingered in the air, and excited flies darted from fish to fish lapping up the decay.” - S.W. Lothian

82. “Родих се в морето,отгледан бях от пиратистанах един от тях.Воювах срещу враговете сии спечелих името синаричат ме...ОКОТО НА ВЪЛКА” - Милен Иванов

83. “Cat," said Peterkin, turning his head a little on one side, "I love you.” - R. M. Ballantyne

84. “Don’t worry yourself. It is better that you are cautious and safe than to be accepting and sorry. Trust must be earned. I hope I have now earned yours.” - S.W. Lothian

85. “I never want to be a passive observer of life's possibilities.” - Courtney Pierce

86. “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

87. “I'm ready for another adventure now, take me far away please!Ok one more... But then you have to read to me!” - Joseph Gordon-Levitt

88. “A taste for adventure is by no means a masculine monopoly.” - Lloyd Alexander

89. “One day an intrepid sole will climb this mountain on its east side, reaching the summit and the passage that exist between the main peak and secondary peaks, by which he can descend to the west side of the mountain. It is at this site near Lake Brunner, between the main peak and an adjacent stone pyramid, in a "hidden cave" that has been sealed by earthquakes common in the region . . . where lust for Inca gold must end for some . . . but for that intrepid sole . . . it shall be just the beginning!” - Steven J. Charbonneau

90. “I'm going to be a fairy.” Sarah announced, studying her file."What a surprise.” Nicole mumbled, closing the door.” - Alaina Stanford

91. “Approaching the trail, he broke through the thicket a short distance ahead of the Empath. Causing the Empaths horse to startle as the surprised rider jerked on the reins. Cap was equally surprised to find a young girl before him instead of an older, experienced male Empath. Cap brought his horse to a quick halt. The young girl pulled a small knife from her boot and cautioned him. "I don't know where you came from, but I'm not easy prey.” Her voice shook slightly with fear as she raised the knife.Not sure how to proceed, they stared silently at each other. Cap had always believed that Empaths didn't carry weapons. This pretty, chestnut haired girl couldn't be more than 18 years old. Her long straight tresses covered the spot on her jacket where the Empathic Emblem was usually worn, causing Cap to doubt she was the one he sought. Not wanting to frighten her any more than he already had, Cap tried to explain. "I'm Commander Caplin Taylor. I’m looking for an Empath that is headed for the Western Hunting Lodge.”"My name is Kendra; I am the Empath you seek.” She answered cautiously, still holding the blade. A noise from the brush drew her attention as a small rodent pounced out, trying to evade an unseen predator. Cap was just close enough to lurch forward and snatch the dirk from her hand. Her head jerked back in alarm."Bosen May has been mauled by a Sraeb, his shoulder is a mass of pulp." Cap spoke quickly not wanting to hesitate any longer.That was all Kendra needed to hear. She pushed her horse past him and headed quickly down the trail."Wait!" Cap called after her, turning his horse around. Reining in the horse, she turned back to face him annoyed by the delay. "Are you a good horseman?" Cap asked, as he stuffed her dirk in his jacket."I've been in the saddle since I was a child." She answered, abruptly."Okay so just a few years then?" Cap's rebuke angered her. Jerking the horse back toward the trail, she ignored him."Wait, I'm sorry!" Cap called after her. "It's just that I know a quicker way, if you can handle some rough terrain.""Let’s go then." Kendra replied, gruffly, turning back to face him. Without another word, Cap dove back into the brush and the girl followed.” - Alaina Stanford

92. “Ahmity reached out and created a ball of light in his hand sending it down past Jack and into the cave. He called out to Jack, “It will move as you command.”Jack frowned feeling a bit ridiculous talking to a ball of light and said, “Go three feet inside the cave and hover.” The ball floated quickly to the cave entrance and past the rushing water to hover just inside the cave entrance. “Move further in another 5 feet.” There was a large shadow to the right. “Move right 10 feet.” Jack commanded and the ball floated into a side tunnel and disappeared. Jack said, “Return to Ahmity.”The ball slowly accompanied Jack back up the cliff. When he reached the top Ahmity helped him up over the edge and waited for his report. Jack wiped the sweat from his forehead and said, “I could see a tunnel in the side of the cave about 10 feet inside the entrance. It’s large enough for the trolls pass through.”Ahmity shook his head and said, “If the trolls traveled back to the Netherworld from here then it’s possible the beasts escaped the same way.”Jack sighed and glanced back at the school then said, “Well there’s no way to know for sure unless we take a short trip down a black hole.”Coming soon--Vengeance's Fire” - Alaina Stanford

93. “As for peace, it was never free and laws were made to be broken. Peacemaker or lawbreaker, someone, somewhere always paid the price no matter what side of the words they were on.” - Virginia McKevitt

94. “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

95. “Man needs air, man needs water, man needs food and man needs adventure also! Adventure is a medicine for the infinite boredom.” - Mehmet Murat ildan

96. “Back at the guest house I tried to acclimatise. A travel-worn adventurer had once told me that leaning with one's head dangling over the end of a bed was the best way to achieve this. It was while I was in this position, the blood rushing to my temples, that the door swung open.” - Tahir Shah

97. “Anything worth anything can be found in books.” - Nora Roberts

98. “Instead of living our lives fighting discontentment, striving to gain contentment from things that were never meant to bring contentment… What if we gave it all up for a grand adventure, for a worthy cause, for the Father? Why do we keep searching to find a hole to shove our hearts into when they were meant to be poured out and fill the entire world?” - Katie Kiesler