Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

There is no certainty; there is only adventure.

The biggest threat to a better life is the desire to keep the future under control - to make the world predictable by reining in creativity and enterprise. Progress as a neat blueprint, with no deviations and no surprise, may work in children's cartoons or utopian novels. But it's just a fantasy.

'Gonzo' means taking an unknown thing to an unknown place for a known purpose. But sometimes we're lost in an unknown place for no known purpose.

Life is full of adventure. There's no such thing as a clear pathway.

He goeth furthest who knows not whither he is going.

It's hard to get lost if you don't know where you're going.

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. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Writing is like building a bridge while you're on it. If you step forward you fall off and there's nothing in front of you.

I don't know what I'm doing and it's the not knowing that makes it interesting.

Savor the mystery, Stephen, we don't get enough of them.

If I knew where I was going, I wouldn't do it. When I can predict or plan it, I don't do it.

You've got to bumble forward into the unknown.

I love the unknown. I love the discovery of what will be happening and just kind of sitting back and not knowing.

I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring.

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.

This is the first time in 10 years I don't know what I'm doing next, and I'm rather enjoying it. Soon I'll be climbing the walls no doubt, but right now, it's not clear, I'm just enjoying the freedom.

Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it.

Darkness is full of possibility.

The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.

Without mysteries, life would be very dull indeed. What would be left to strive for if everything were known?

The real world has always been far more exciting and funny and dangerous to me than anything somebody could conjure up sitting in front of a computer.

I couldn't tell you what I am going to do next 'cause I have no idea, but I am open to anything.

If I planned everything out in advance, I'd expire of boredom.

I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.

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.