An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
—G. K. Chesterton
Everything I do with you feels like an adventure.
—Steph Campbell in Depths
Adventure is just bad planning.
—Roald Amundsen
Among the many legends that surround the Nepalese Gurkhas of the British Army is the story of a paratroop regiment in the Second World War. The leader of the regiment asked for volunteers for a particularly dangerous drop behind enemy lines. About half the Gurkhas promptly stepped forward. The leader then went through what the volunteers would be asked to do. Halfway into his explanation, a surprised voice piped up from the back: "Oh, you mean we can use parachutes?" Every remaining Gurkha joined the volunteers.
—Radio Times, London
If there is one door in the castle you have been told not to go through, you must. Otherwise you'll just be rearranging furniture in rooms you've already been in.
—Anne Lamott
There's so much more to life than finding someone who will want you, or being sad over someone who doesn't. There's a lot of wonderful time to be spent discovering yourself without hoping someone will fall in love with you along the way, and it doesn't need to be painful or empty. You need to fill yourself up with love. Not anyone else. Become a whole being on your own. Go on adventures, fall asleep in the woods with friends, wander around the city at night, sit in a coffee shop on your own, write on bathroom stalls, leave notes in library books, dress up for yourself, give to others, smile a lot. Do all things with love, but don't romanticize life like you can't survive without it. Live for yourself and be happy on your own. It isn't any less beautiful.
—Emery Allen
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
—Voltaire
Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.
—Mae West
I would like to die on Mars. Just not on impact.
—Elon Musk
Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.
—W. Somerset Maugham
Tell him he was my greatest adventure. Tell him I love him.
—Fisher Amelie in Vain
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
—Edmund Hillary
What happened when we died? How were we to know that death wasn't as profound an adventure as life was?
—Elin Hilderbrand in Summerland