I think if given the opportunity and resources, we would all choose long-term travel at some point in our lives. After all, travel, above all else, broadens your perspective and gives you a breath of fresh air in the monotony of life. It allows you to know more of yourself, and more of others.

However, you can have adventures right where you are, as discovery can happen at any place, as long as you have a desire to seek it out. With that said, these quotes about adventure below will surely get you dreaming about places far and wide, and hopefully encourage you to do some exploring!

25 Adventure Quotes That Will Satisfy Your Wanderlust

1. “Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!” – Hunter S. Thompson

2. “Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.” – T. S. Eliot

3. “Every dreamer knows that it is entirely possible to be homesick for a place you’ve never been to, perhaps more homesick than for familiar ground.” ~ Judith Thurman

4. “Life is either a great adventure or nothing.” ~ Helen Keller

5. “Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

6. “Not all those who wander are lost.” – J. R. R. Tolkien

7. “We travel, some of us forever, to seek other places, other lives, other souls.” – Anais Nin

8. “I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.” – Mary Anne Radmacher

9. “We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us.” – Anonymous

10. “Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all of one’s lifetime.” – Mark Twain

11. “Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” – Andre Gide

12. “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.” – Mark Twain

13. “Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer.” – Anonymous

14. “Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.” – Ray Bradbury

15. “A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes

16. “Take only memories, leave only footprints.” – Chief Seattle

17. “Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by.” – Robert Frost

18. “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” – Augustine of Hippo

19. “I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.” – Robert Louis Stevenson

20. “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

21. “She is free in her wildness, she is a wanderess, a drop of free water. She knows nothing of borders and cares nothing for rules or customs. ‘Time’ for her isn’t something to fight against. Her life flows clean, with passion, like fresh water.” – Roman Payne

22. “But that’s the glory of foreign travel, as far as I am concerned. I don’t want to know what people are talking about. I can’t think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything. Suddenly you are five years old again. You can’t read anything, you have only the most rudimentary sense of how things work, you can’t even reliably cross a street without endangering your life. Your whole existence becomes a series of interesting guesses.” – Bill Bryson

23. “We leave something of ourselves behind when we leave a place, we stay there, even though we go away. And there are things in us that we can find again only by going back there.” – Pascal Mercier

24. “To move, to breathe, to fly, to float, To gain all while you give, To roam the roads of lands remote, To travel is to live.” – Hans Christian Andersen

25. “We wanderers, ever seeking the lonelier way, begin no day where we have ended another day; and no sunrise finds us where sunset left us. Even while the earth sleeps we travel. We are the seeds of the tenacious plant, and it is in our ripeness and our fullness of heart that we are given to the wind and are scattered.” – Kahlil Gibran