Jon Krakauer Quotes

Sometimes my need to love hurts– myself, my family, my cause. Is there a cure? Of course. But I refuse. Refuse to stop loving, to stop caring. To avoid those tears, that pain…To err on the side of passion is human and right and the only way I’ll live.

You should own nothing except what you can carry on your back at a dead run.

You are wrong if you think Joy emanates only…from human relationships. God has placed it all around us…and all you have to do is reach for it.

The core of mans’ spirit comes from new experiences.

At that stage of my youth, death remained as abstract a concept as non-Euclidean geometry or marriage. I didn’t yet appreciate its terrible finality or the havoc it could wreak on those who’d entrusted the deceased with their hearts.

As a means of motivating people to be cruel or inhumane-as a means of inciting evil, to borrow the vocabulary of the devout-there may be no more potent force than religion.

You are wrong if you think Joy emanates only or principally from human relationships. God has placed it all around us. It is in everything and anything we might experience. We just have to have the courage to turn against our habitual lifestyle and engage in unconventional living.

…books possess an ounce-of-weight to minute-of-entertainment ratio that compares quite favorably to intoxicants.

Short form media is reductionist by nature.

What if I were smiling and running into your arms? Would you see then what I see now?

Antarctica is a very alien environment, and you can’t survive here more than minutes if you’re not equipped properly and doing the right thing all the time.

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.