To die will be an awfully big adventure.

-Barrie, SirJ(ames) M(atthew)
  Peter Pan (published1928), act 3.

An adventure is onlyan inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is onlyan adventure wrongly considered.

-Chesterton, G(ilbert) K(eith)
  All Things Considered,'On Running  After One's Hat'.

Theyare our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return.

-Forster, E(dward) M(organ)
  On railway termini. Howards End, ch.2.

Why fear death? It's the most beautiful adventure in life.

-Frohman, Charles
  Last words, paraphrasing a line in  J M Barrie's Peter Pan, said to the actress Rita  Jolivet as the Lusitania went down after being torpedoed by a German submarine,7 May.

But the adventure, the conquest of an unknown country, thestruggle against theimpossible, all have a fascination which draws me with an irresistible force.

-Hedin, Sven Anders
  My Life as an Explorer.

Now possess, As lords, a spacious world, to our native heaven Little inferior, by myadventure hard With peril great achieved.

-Milton,John
  Satan, returning triumphantly from Earth to Hell after tempting Eve. Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.10, l.466^9.

Que ton vers soit la bonne aventure EŁ  parse au vent crispe¤   du matin Qui va fleurant la menthe et le thym. Et tout le reste est litte¤  rature. May your verse be a glorious adventure Strewn by the crisp morning air Which helps the mint and the thyme grow. Everything else is mere literature.

-Verlaine, Paul
  Jadis et nague'  re,'Art poe¤  tique'.

   The worship of God is not a rule of safetyöit is an adventure of thespirit, a flight after theunattainable.The death of religion comes with the repression of the high hope of adventure.

-Whitehead, Alfred North
  Science and the ModernWorld.