Buhl Quotes

#1. Hermann Buhl with K2. First

James M. Tabor

#2. Why climb? For the natural experience; for the danger that draws us ever on; for the feeling of total freedom; for the monstrous drop beneath you. It is like a drug.

Hermann Buhl

#3. I think I'd rather win, for example, a Writer's Guild award than almost anything on earth. And the few nominations I've had with the guild, and the few awards I've had, represented to me a far more legitimate concrete achievement than anything.

Rod Serling

#4. The more we're doing to ensure we're following our joy and passion, that's when we really start to put the gas in our lives.

Joshua Mohr

#5. You have to let the laughter and pure joy fill you up, so the demons have nothing left to hold and you can be free.

Sarah Buhl

#6. There was never in my mind a desire to give in on the subject of freeing the political prisoners.

Robert Bourassa

#7. It is the very error of the moon; She comes more nearer earth than she was wont, And makes men mad.

William Shakespeare

#8. I had a classic gym teacher in junior high who wore a weightlifter's belt all the time.

Danny McBride

#9. Mountaineering is a relentless pursuit. One climbs further and further yet never reaches the destination. Perhaps that is what gives it its own particular charm. One is constantly searching for something never to be found.

Hermann Buhl

#10. Of all the evils for which man has made himself responsible, none is so degrading, so shocking or so brutal as his abuse of the better half of humanity; the female sex.

Mahatma Gandhi

#11. After the climb, you should feel no trace of tiredness; on the contrary, it is then that you should be really fresh. Then you will have found the correct measure of your abilities.

Hermann Buhl

#12. I didn't feel the kind of joy every day playing drums that I thought you were supposed to feel.

Damien Chazelle

#13. There is probably nothing finer than to climb free and unencumbered by equipment, reveling in the gymnastic upward movement, like Preuss or a Dulfer before you, relying only upon yourself, keeping a sharp eye on things, feeling the rock beneath your feet and fingertips.

Hermann Buhl

#14. It is possible to study fashion the way one can study a work of art, so that it reflects significantly upon the issues and conflicts of its own day.

Kim Chernin

#15. Only by confronting your demons can you ever hope to conquer them.

Ellen Hopkins