To die will be an awfully big adventure.
Source: Peter Pan (1911)
Topic
Adventure calls to something fundamental in human nature — the need to test limits, discover unknown territory, and encounter the world as it actually is rather than as habit makes it appear. The quotes here span the literal and the metaphorical: the physical adventurers who push bodies and geography to their edges, and the quieter explorers who find adventure in ideas, relationships, and the courage to change. What unites these diverse voices is a shared conviction that a life without risk is a life half-lived. Adventure, they suggest, is not primarily about danger but about openness: willingness to encounter the unexpected, to be changed by what you find, and to return different from how you left. These reflections also acknowledge adventure's costs — the uncertainty, the exposure, the possibility of failure — and argue that those costs are worth paying for the clarity and aliveness that genuine risk-taking brings. If you are standing at a threshold, these words may help you step through.
To die will be an awfully big adventure.
Second to the right, and straight on till morning.
Tell me, Muse, of that man, so ready at need, who wandered far and wide.
The everlasting lure of round-the-corner, how fascinating it is.