adventure quotes

To die will be an awfully big adventure.

- SirJ(ames) M(atthew) Barrie
  Peter Pan (published1928), act 3.

An adventure is onlyan inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is onlyan adventure wrongly considered.

- G(ilbert) K(eith) Chesterton
  All Things Considered,'On Running  After One's Hat'.

Theyare our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return.

- E(dward) M(organ) Forster
  On railway termini. Howards End, ch.2.

Why fear death? It's the most beautiful adventure in life.

- Charles Frohman
  Last words, paraphrasing a line in  J M Barrie's Peter Pan, said to the actress Rita  Jolivet as the Lusitania went down after being torpedoed by a German submarine,7 May.

But the adventure, the conquest of an unknown country, thestruggle against theimpossible, all have a fascination which draws me with an irresistible force.

- Sven Anders Hedin
  My Life as an Explorer.

Now possess, As lords, a spacious world, to our native heaven Little inferior, by myadventure hard With peril great achieved.

-John Milton
  Satan, returning triumphantly from Earth to Hell after tempting Eve. Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.10, l.466^9.

Que ton vers soit la bonne aventure EŁ  parse au vent crispe   du matin Qui va fleurant la menthe et le thym. Et tout le reste est litte  rature. May your verse be a glorious adventure Strewn by the crisp morning air Which helps the mint and the thyme grow. Everything else is mere literature.

- Paul Verlaine
  Jadis et nague'  re,'Art poe  tique'.

   The worship of God is not a rule of safetyit is an adventure of thespirit, a flight after theunattainable.The death of religion comes with the repression of the high hope of adventure.

- Alfred North Whitehead
  Science and the ModernWorld.