What has happened makes the world. Live on the edge, looking.
If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine; it is lethal.
The minute you know you're on safe ground, you're dead.
The principal difference between an adventurer and a suicide is that the adventurer leaves himself a margin of escape (the narrower the margin the greater the adventure), a margin whose width and length may be determined by unknown factors but whose navigation is determined by the measure of the adventurer's nerve and wits. It is exhilarating to live by one's nerves or toward the summit of one's wits.
Faster, Faster, until the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death.
I don't want an uneventful and safe life, I prefer an adventurous one.
It was titillating to brush up against the enigma of mortality, to steal a glimpse across its forbidden frontier. Climbing was a magnificient activity, I firmly believed, not in spite of the inherent perils, but precisely because of them.
Was I always going to be here? No I was not. I was going to be homeless at one time, a taxi driver, truck driver, or any kind of job that would get me a crust of bread. You never know what's going to happen.
What is life, but one long risk?
I'm someone who doesn't have anything to lose.
A certain amount of danger is essential to the quality of life.
To be alive is to take risks; to be always safe and secure is death.
It's an awful risky thing to live
Cinema without risk is like having no sex and expecting to have a baby.
I live in the extremes.
I wonder if it's like this for mountain climbers, he thought. You climb bigger and bigger mountains and you know that one day one of them is going to be just that bit too steep. But you go on doing it, because it’s so-o good when you breathe the air up there. And you know you'll die falling.
Danger could be my middle name... But it's John.
I hated being careful, too - or wanted to, at least.
All of life is the exercise of risk.
I love that they do that. I love action and I love doing my own stunts. I love that sort of thing.
Live dangerously and you live right.
I just think you need to spice up life every now and then with a bit of adventure and excitement.
Every minute of life I take a risk; it's part of the enjoyment.
When you're challenged, you're totally alive and totally dealing with reality, particularly if it could be dangerous. And that excites me!
You must not try to be too pure, you must fly closer to the sea.
