Great adventure book quotes to lift your mood

If you are needing a little pick me up for your mood, there is no better solution than a book. Here are some uplifting quotes from adventure books to help lift your spirits, curated by the Bookvus review team.

"I shan't be lonely now. I was lonely; I was afraid. But the emptiness and the darkness are gone; when I turn back into myself now I am like a child going at night into a room where there's always a light."

―Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

"It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart."

―Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

"It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live."

―J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

"Not all those who wander are lost."

―J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

"Make not your thoughts your prisons."

―William Shakespeare, Anthony and Cleopatra

"You still have a lot of time to make yourself be what you want. There's still lots of good in the world."

—S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders

"I want you to remember who you are, despite the bad things that are happening to you. Because those bad things aren't you. They are just things that happen to you. You need to accept that who you are and the things that happen you, are not one and the same."

—Colleen Hoover, Hopeless

"Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could."

―Louise Erdrich, The Painted Drum LP

"There were still the periods of darkness, the spasms of panic; but now he knew they were not real and because he knew this he overcame them."

―V.S. Naipaul, A House for Mr. Biswas

"That is all I want in life: for this pain to seem purposeful."

―Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation

"But still, I find the need to remind myself of the temporariness of a day, to reassure myself that I got through yesterday, I'll get through today."

―Gayle Forman, Where She Went

"Do not let the hero in your soul parish, in lonely frustration, for the life you deserved but never have been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of your battle. The world you desired can be won. It exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours."

―Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

"Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul."

―Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

"How many times have I failed before? How many times have I stood here like this, in front of my own image, in front of my own person, trying to convince him not to be scared, to go on, to get out of this rut? How many times before I finally convince myself, how many private, erasable deaths will I need to die, how many self-murders is it going to take, how many times will I have to destroy myself before I learn, before I understand?"

―Charles Yu, How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe

"I have been bent and broken, but — I hope — into a better shape."

—Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

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