Tim Cahill Quotes

For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.

Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.

Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.

And your own life while it's happening to you never has any atmosphere until it's a memory.

What people speak of as adventure is something nobody in his right mind would seek out, and it becomes romantic only when one is safely at home.

When we travel, we are like a film at the moment of exposure; it is memory that will develop it.

Strange, how the best moments of our lives we scarcely notice except in looking back.

When we are young... we often experience things in the present with a nostalgia-in-advance, but we seldom guess what we will truly prize years from now.

Does not the history of the world show that there would have been no romance in life if there had been no risks?

Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey.

When I was young, all I wanted to do was to compete, have fun and travel.

We do not know the true value of our moments until they have undergone the test of memory.

It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.

Observation is an old man's memory.

I love adventures.

For me, my travels have been the chance to go to a place that already exists in my imagination.

Adventure without risk is Disneyland.

It's more fun to experience things when you don't know what's going to happen.

No, you never get any fun out of the things you haven't done.

Life is either a great adventure or nothing.

Climbing K2 or floating the Grand Canyon in an inner tube; there are some things one would rather have done than do.

What I love most about this crazy life is the adventure of it.

I definitely like creative, exciting adventures.

Travel is wonderful. Everyone thinks it's wonderful.

It's only in hindsight that you realize what indeed your childhood was really like.