50 Best Adventure Quotes & Captions To Explore Further
/Adventures, can there be too many or too less?
For the longest time, adventures were only meant to be for the fittest — the types we have seen on catalogs, articles, advertising campaigns and magazine covers. But globalisation and the advent of social media has rapidly changed that.
And thank goodness it has! Adventure is no longer for the strongest, but for anyone really who just enjoys nature and the great outdoors.
I long for solitude in the craziest mountain nooks, or taking that road trip to faraway lands and perhaps dropping everything and going solo but still ensuring it is an epic adventure!
There were certain quotes that got me dreaming of trekking in the Himalayas, and some that really helped me push through on epic adventures like cycling through Central Asia.
Here are some of the best adventure quotes and captions to keep that fire burning and inspire every person.
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Best Adventure Quotes & Captions
1. “It’s the unknown that draws people.”
― E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
2. "For all its material advantages, the sedentary life has left us edgy, unfulfilled. Even after 400 generations in villages and cities, we haven't forgotten. The open road still softly calls, like a nearly forgotten song from childhood." - Carl Sagan
Transitional phases and quotes that sort of depict that life of a city is not for us, but adventure is lurking somewhere like the open road are the kind of quotes I can relate to! For the longest time, I would stare at windows in boxed up classrooms and wonder what’s out there waiting for me or if I was missing my innocence of being out in the wild.
"For all its material advantages, the sedentary life has left us edgy, unfulfilled. Even after 400 generations in villages and cities, we haven't forgotten. The open road still softly calls, like a nearly forgotten song from childhood." - Carl Sagan
3. “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, On the Road
4. Don't settle down and sit in one place. Move around, be nomadic, make each day a new horizon. You are still going to live a long time, Ron, and it would be a shame if you did not take the opportunity to revolutionize your life and move into an entirely new realm of experience.
― Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild
Reading Jon Krakauer book is what got me enamoured by the mountains and it was a moment of realisation that if I did not climb this mountain or take in more adventures, I’ll never be able to get back this exact time and moment in my life.
5. 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.
― Edward Abbey
6. “An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.”
― G.K. Chesterton
7. “If you don't take risks, you'll have a wasted soul.”
― Drew Barrymore
“If you don't take risks, you'll have a wasted soul.”
― Drew Barrymore
8. “Until you step into the unknown, you don’t know what you’re made of.”
― Roy T. Bennett
9. “To venture causes anxiety, but not to venture is to lose one's self.... And to venture in the highest is precisely to be conscious of one's self.”
― Søren Kierkegaard
10. “I wandered everywhere, through cities and countries wide. And everywhere I went, the world was on my side.”
― Roman Payne
11. “Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.” – Maya Angelou
12. “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” – Mark Twain
There are some quotes that you can never get tired of and Mark Twain’s quote of living life to the fullest and seizing moments as and when they come is what true explorers like me crave for moments when you question if this nomadic lifestyle is meant for you or not!
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” – Mark Twain
13. "I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be." – Douglas Adams
14. "Throw a loaf of bread and a pound of tea in an old sack and jump over the back fence." – John Muir
15. “I see my path, but I don't know where it leads. Not knowing where I'm going is what inspires me to travel it.” - Rosalia de Castro
16. "Our battered suitcases were were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life." - Jack Kerouac
17. “The years thunder by, The dreams of youth grow dim where they lie caked in dust on the shelves of patience. Before we know it, the tomb is sealed.” - Sterling Hayden
18. “The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page” - Saint Augustine
19. “The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.”
― Christopher McCandless
20. “Those who travel to mountain-tops are half in love with themselves, and half in love with oblivion.”
― Robert Macfarlane
21. “Some adventures require nothing more than a willing heart and the ability to trip over the cracks in the world.”
― Seanan McGuire, Down Among the Sticks and Bones
22. “There's only one place I want to go and it's to all the places I've never been.”
― Nikki Rowe
The biggest adventure were the unplanned ones. I wouldn’t have travelled to Iran, Armenia, Georgia, Kazakhstan for a holiday, but for a true adventure, where I knew nothing about the people, culture, history and food and that’s what true adventures are made up of!
“There's only one place I want to go and it's to all the places I've never been.”
― Nikki Rowe
23. “Adventure is not outside man; it is within.”
― George Eliot
24. “It’s the unknown that draws people.”
― E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
25. “One of the inescapable encumbrances of leading an interesting life is that there have to be moments when you almost lose it.”
― Jimmy Buffett, A Pirate Looks at Fifty
26. “Jobs fill your pockets, but adventures fill your soul.” – Jaime Lyn Beatty
27. “You must go on adventures to find out where you truly belong.” – Sue Fitzmaurice
28. “Go to the edge of the cliff and jump off. Build your wings on the way down.”
― T.K. Thorne
29. “You can't prepare for everything life's going to throw at you. And you can't avoid danger. It's there. The world is a dangerous place, and if you sit around wringing your hands about it, you'll be out on all the adventure.”
― Jeannette Walls, Half Broke Horses
For the longest time, I waited to have the right friend who could do all these adventures with me and I realised waiting around was useless and the only way is to dive right into it and the adventurous part is learning about yourself and for me that’s already an adventure!
“You can't prepare for everything life's going to throw at you. And you can't avoid danger. It's there. The world is a dangerous place, and if you sit around wringing your hands about it, you'll be out on all the adventure.”
― Jeannette Walls, Half Broke Horses
30. “Life's trials will test you, and shape you, but don’t let them change who you are.”
― Aaron Lauritsen, ‘100 Days Drive”
31. “Life's most beautiful and inspiring moments occur at 3am, just prowling, looking for nothing but always finding something.” ― Unknown
32. “The secret to so many artists living so long is that every painting is a new adventure. So, you see, they're always looking ahead to something new and exciting. The secret is not to look back.”
― Norman Rockwell
33. “Don't ever live vicariously. This is your life. Live.”
― Lavinia Spalding
I love Spalding’s quote and it is exactly the kind of reply you’d give to your Instagram friends who always say they can’t go on an adventure and live through you — and you often wonder why have people given up so easily! There’s no template for life, and moments of adventures can be embraced the moment they stopped looking at the screen.
“Don't ever live vicariously. This is your life. Live.”
― Lavinia Spalding
34. “Set out from any point. They are all alike. They all lead to a point of departure.”
― Antonio Porchia
35. “Make everything an adventure. Otherwise, it will suck.”
― Nita Morgan
36. “To err is to wander and wandering is the way we discover the world and lost in thought it is the also the way we discover ourselves.” ― Kathryn Schulz, Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error
38. Who really wants to stay at home and be right when you can don your armor spring up on your steed and go forth to explore the world ― Kathryn Schulz, Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error
39. “What I discovered I liked best about striking out on my bicycle was that the farther I got from home, the more interesting and unusual my thoughts became.”
― Richard Russo
The bicycle is a stellar vehicle — the more you ride, the more you become addicted to the adventures that are thrown at you. People automatically open their doors and homes for you and you travel farther than you can ever imagine. It makes for wonderful memories and that’s how life should be lived.
“What I discovered I liked best about striking out on my bicycle was that the farther I got from home, the more interesting and unusual my thoughts became.”
― Richard Russo
40. “Always there has been an adventure just around the corner--and the world is still full of corners.”
― Roy Chapman Andrews
41. “An adventurous life does not necessarily mean climbing mountains, swimming with sharks, or jumping off cliffs. It means risking yourself by leaving a little piece of you behind in all those you meet along the way.”
― Shawna Grapentin
42. “Go small, go simple, go now”
― Larry Pardey, Cruising in Seraffyn
43. “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
44. “There is no point of adventure if you have known about everything.
― Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
45. “I could not have climbed any mountains while looking from the ground... I would not have flown... or dived... or surfed... or swum... I am not a tourist nor a spectator... this is the life I have left, and I will not waste it like some rubber-neck”
― Kem, Tales of a Chocolate Smuggler: My Life with Dragons
46. “There is a misconception of those who explore; it is not answers they seek, but the longing for another question.”
― Brian S Woods, The Codex Bellum III: The Observer Effect
That quote of all those who wander are lost, are false, sometimes it is not the answers they seek for, but to question more about destruction faced by humankind. You can’t get all your answers from lecture notes and the best way is to immerse yourself in places you’ve learned about!
47. “If travel has momentum and wants to stay in motion, then adventure has the gravitational pull of a black hole. The more you do it, the more you find a way to keep doing it.”
― Josh Gates, Destination Truth: Memoirs of a Monster Hunter
48. “Even blind alleys lead somewhere.”
― Marty Rubin
49. “Sometimes, the only cost to experience an ecstatic moment is a decision”
― Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana, Ph.D, MBA
50. “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
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