Gabriele D'Annunzio Quotes

You've never lived till you've flown!

What I need is to express my passion for life... It's movement I'm interested in, the life in me, the life in humanity.

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

I want to go everywhere, look at and listen to everything. You can go crazy with some of the wonderful stuff there is in life.

Suppose I was to tell you that it's just beauty that's calling me, the beauty of the far off and unknown, the mystery and spell which lures me, the need of freedom of great wide spaces, the joy of wandering on and on----in quest of the secret which is hidden over there----beyond the horizon?

I love to see those paragliders weaving softly around Moon Point, their legs floating above you in the air. When they drift in for a landing, their feet touch the ground and they trot forward from the continued motion of the glider, which billows down like a setting sun. I never get tired of watching them and I've seen them thousands of times. I always wondered what that kind of freedom would feel like.

"Glorious, stirring sight!" murmured Toad. . . . "The poetry of motion! The real way to travel! The only way to travel! Here today - in next week tomorrow! Villages skipped, towns and cities jumped- always somebody else's horizons! O bliss! O poop-poop! O my! O my!"

Now that I've found the way to fly, which direction should I go into the night?

Dig into life with wild roving abandon, opening your mind to the delicious possibilities that perplex the mind, entice the heart, and excite the spirit.

Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.

Ideas come from ordinary, everyday life. And from imagination. And from feelings. And from memories. Memories of dust in my sneakers and humming whitewalls down a hill called Monkey.

Riding exhilarated me; it gave me a joy and a purpose.

Every western I did and will do; I will do it for the never ending young kid inside of me.

I'm happiest when I'm moving.

I want to go skydiving. I'd love to go to the Galapagos. Nature still excites me.

I think risk-taking is a great adventure. And life should be full of adventures.

It was with deep interest that my companion and myself, both now about to see and examine the beauties of a tropical country for the first time, gazed on the land where I, at least, eventually spent eleven of the best years of my life.

Hitchhiking was such a pure form of existence. You'd wake up in the morning, and you'd have no idea what your day was going to be. And that's something I've never been able to shake. I loved that.

Movement has been one of the few constants in my life, and I always feel a great sense of optimism when I set off to a new place.

I'm very happy being me, although sometimes I'd love to be a bird so that I could fly.

I like to experiment, and my life has been eventful.

To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.

I drive a lot. Just for pleasure. Sometimes I'll get in the Cadillac and drive around the city or the country, kind of trying to get lost basically. Y'know, just see where roads lead.

For me, personally, skiing holds everything. I used to race cars, but skiing is a step beyond that. It removes the machinery and puts you one step closer to the elements. And it's a complete physical expression of freedom.

I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.