Jon Krakauer Quotes
Top 93 wise famous quotes and sayings by Jon Krakauer
Jon Krakauer Famous Quotes & Sayings
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I mean, how can you not be a feminist if you have a brain in your head? If you're not a feminist, then you're a problem.
But now that I was finally here, standing on the summit of Mount Everest, I just couldn't summon the energy to care.
While tentbound high on Everest, Mallory and his companions would read aloud to one another from Hamlet and King Lear
Military investigations are designed not to find anyone guilty. And you can't investigate up the chain of command, which is a huge impediment.
Most climbers aren't in fact deranged, they're just infected with a particularly virulent strain of the Human Condition.
Some people have big dreams, some people have small dreams ... Whatever you have, the important thing is that you never stop dreaming. -Doug Hansen
You hear that rape victims avoid sex afterwards. But it's actually just as common for some victims to become promiscuous in self-destructive ways.
Huguet, on the other hand, insisted that prosecutors settle for nothing less than a lengthy sentence at the state penitentiary in Deer Lodge.
Everest has always been a magnet for kooks, publicity seekers, hopeless romantics and others with a shaky hold on reality.
Some people feel like they don't deserve love. They walk away quietly into empty spaces, trying to close the gaps of the past.
I came to understand that I had baffled and infuriated my father at least as much as he had baffled and infuriated me.
I was dimly aware that I might be getting in over my head. But that only added to the scheme's appeal. That it wouldn't be easy was the whole point.
I love being outdoors, being in the mountains and the desert, and my wife enjoys that too. That's one of the things that sustain our relationship.
I never studied writing, but I'd always been a reader and had a secret fantasy about being a writer.
I think part of the appeal of Antarctica is experiencing some sort of power, the forces of the natural world.
When an individual is raped in this country, more than 90 percent of the time the rapist gets away with the crime.
It was the masterful and incommunicable wisdom of eternity laughing at the futility of life and the effort of life.
I'm going to paraphrase Thoreau here ... rather than love, than money, than faith, than fame, than fairness ... give me truth.
With the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them;
I read somewhere ... how important it is in life not necessarily to be strong, but to feel strong ... to measure yourself at least once.
I'm going to have to be real careful not to accept any gifts from them in the future because they will think they have bought my respect.
If you're bumming out, you're not gonna get to the top, so as long as we're up here we might as well make a point of grooving. (Quoting Scott Fischer)
But [Everett] and McCandless, at least they tried to follow their dream. That's what was great about them. They tried. Not many do.
A rapist, by definition, is only interested in gratifying his own desires. A rapist doesn't care what a woman wants. If he did, he wouldn't rape. -
The United States Violence Against Women Act of 2005 requires that all victims of sexual assault be given free access to an evidence collection kit,
The trip was to be an odyssey in the fullest sense of the word, an epic journey that would change everything.
As I point out in the very first pages of 'Into the Wild,' I approached this book not as a normal, you know, unbiased journalist.
The pieces I've written for 'Outside' magazine are definitely my best work, and they're virtually all about the outdoors.
Sometimes he tried too hard to make sense of the world, to figure out why people were bad to each other so often.
Bouldering isn't really a sport. It's a climbing activity with metaphysical, mystical, and philosophical overtones. -John Gill-
Almost every magazine piece I've ever written, I felt like I haven't done it justice, like it was just a gloss.
Weeping ... betraying a sense of loss so huge and irreparable that the mind balks at taking its measure.
The desert sharpened the sweet ache of his longing, amplified it, gave shape to it in sere geology and clean slant of light.
Don't settle down and sit in one place. Move around be nomadic, make each day a new horizon.
-Chris McCandless
-Chris McCandless
You get a compound fracture in Colorado where I live, and you can probably be in a hospital within a matter of hours, certainly within a day.
At such moments something resembling happiness actually stirs in your chest, but it isn't the sort of emotion you want to lean on very hard.
In reality, the [American legal] system promotes chicanery, outright deceit, and other egregious conduct by trial lawyers.
Simply by recounting their stories and breaking that silence, survivors of sexual assault strike a powerful blow against their assailants.
Once Everest was determined to be the highest summit on earth, it was only a matter of time before people decided that Everest needed to be climbed.
guys who may have 'made mistakes' nearly always get the benefit of the doubt. Drunk girls, however, do not.
With enough determination, any bloody idiot can get up this hill," Hall observed. "The trick is to get back down alive.
Books possess an ounce-of-weight to minute-of-entertainment ratio that compares quite favorably to intoxicants.
In climbing, having confidence in your partners is no small concern. One climber's actions can affect the welfare of the entire team.
There's something about being afraid, about being small, about enforced humility that draws me to climbing.
But men have been committing heinous acts in the name of God ever since mankind began believing in deities, and extremists exist within all religions.
There is nothing glamorous or romantic about war. It's mostly about random pointless death and misery.
But at times I wondered if I had not come a long way only to find that what I really sought was something I had left behind. Thomas F. Hornbein
How can a society actively promote religious faith on one hand and condemn a man for zealously adhering to his faith on the other?