Russell Hoban Quotes

Adventure, yeah. I guess that's what you call it when everybody comes back alive.

The adventure is always and everywhere a passage beyond the veil of the known into the unknown; the powers that watch at the boundary are dangerous; to deal with them is risky; yet for anyone with competence and courage the danger fades.

The maid that loves goes out to sea upon a shattered plank, and puts her trust in miracles for safety.

To be alive at all involves some risk.

One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.

Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little.

If I wasn't doing this kind of exploration, I'd like to be doing some other kind of exploration. It might be more risky, or less risky, but, in the business of exploration, risk is part of the territory.

I've been doing extremely dangerous activities for a long time, but I've been lucky enough to have survived so far. However, sooner or later we all die... and, if that's the case, I want to die doing what I love to do the most. That's how I view death.

A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short.

The danger sensation is exciting. The challenge is to find new dangers.

The curious are always in some danger. If you are curious you might never come home.

If we don’t go, we don’t know.

I'm so curious about knowing the unknown; it can be scary, but I see it as a game.

In war, everything changes. You are very selective of what you do because everything you do can be the last thing you do in your life.

I love diving into the unknown. That's been my M.O. ever since I was a kid.

Withough danger you cannot go beyond danger.

But we survived, didn’t we? That makes it an adventure. If you get killed it’s a tragedy.

You will come to a place where the streets are not marked. Some windows are lighted. but mostly they're darked. But mostly they're darked. A place you could sprain both your elbow and chin! Do you dare to stay out? Do you dare to go in? How much can you lose? How much can you win?

Dive today from the cliff of what you know into what you can't know.

She must find a boat and sail in it. No guarantee of shore. Only a conviction that what she wanted could exist, if she dared to find it.

One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.

The devotion of the greatest is to encounter risk and danger, and play dice for death.

Like Magellan, let us find our islands To die in, far from home, from anywhere Familiar. Let us risk the wildest places, Lest we go down in comfort, and despair.

Life has to be dangerous.