J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes

And for me, the real world involves everything: risk, danger, beauty, energy, all we meet with in the real world.

Adventure is nothing but a romantic name for trouble.

Danger is to adventure what garlic is to spaghetti sauce. Without it, you just end up with stewed tomatoes.

What is life, but one long risk?

Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.

Life is a risk.

Life is lived on the edge.

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.

You can get a lawyer with two months off or a New York socialite who wants to play at being Lewis and Clark and put them up there, but Everest is still in charge; it can still kick butt.

We have an unknown distance yet to run, an unknown river to explore. What falls there are, we know not; what rocks beset the channel, we know not; what walls ride over the river, we know not. Ah, well! we may conjecture many things.

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.

When you go into a forest, anything can happen.

I have always said that a mountain without danger is not a mountain.

I do not want the things I do to be easy and predictable. I want them to be real.

Every morning you get up, risk starts.

I live through risk. Without risk there is no art. You should always be on the edge of a cliff about to fall down and break your neck.

Real adventure is defined best as a journey from which you may not come back alive, and certainly not as the same person.

Withough danger you cannot go beyond danger.

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

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?

Human life implies adventure, and there is no adventure without struggles and dangers.

It is a real wilderness, and those who go there should not feel too safe.

The danger of an adventure is worth a thousand days of ease and comfort

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.

You have chosen the wrong path if it's not fun. And you are probably not taking enough risk if it's not hard and rocky sometimes.