Into The Wild Jon Krakauer Quotes

#1. I don't mind growing old. If I have to go before my time, this is how I'll go
cigarette in one hand, glass of scotch in the other.

Ava Gardner

#2. The Roman clergy thus adopted the old aristocracy's ideal of libertas, which had little to do with freedom; rather, it referred to the maintenance of the privileged position of the ruling class, lest society lapse into barbarism.

Karen Armstrong

#3. But [Everett] and McCandless, at least they tried to follow their dream. That's what was great about them. They tried. Not many do.

Jon Krakauer

#4. Never become attached to anything that continues to hurt God. For you to be free of it, God must be allowed to hurt whatever it may be.

Oswald Chambers

#5. Don't settle down and sit in one place. Move around be nomadic, make each day a new horizon.
-Chris McCandless

Jon Krakauer

#6. The revelation that he was merely human, and frightfully so, was beyond my power to forgive.

Jon Krakauer

#7. That night we danced, I marked you as mine and I made it stick. There wasn't a boy or a man on that lake that didn't know who you belonged to, and the minute there was even a whiff one of them was stepping over the line, they walked funny for a week.

Lora Leigh

#8. What I'm trying to explain to my sulky little cousin is that we are doing things backwards. We are going from the end of the river to the start of the river. And endings are always sad. We are doing the sad bit first, which is wrong. Strange.

Mal Peet

#9. For a few minutes the roof of the bus remains visible among the stunted trees, a tiny white gleam in a wild green sea, growing smaller and smaller, and then it's gone.

Jon Krakauer

#10. I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was wrong with my life. In the end, of course, it changed almost nothing. But I came to appreciate that mountains make poor receptacles for dreams.

Jon Krakauer

#11. 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.

Jon Krakauer

#12. The end is the same. It is the path that separates men. When we taste that end, we will do so with our heads held high, eyes to the sun.

Brandon Sanderson

#13. A knowledge of craft is not the enemy of creativity. You sit down to write and realize, today's going to be a really unconscious day and I'm going to let it all out. Or, today's going to be analytical. And some days all mixed up.

K.M. Soehnlein

#14. [Chris] gave his life in exchange for knowledge and his story is his contribution to the world. I feel complete now to put this story behind me as it was on my mind for quite some time.

Krakauer Jon

#15. God has joy for you right now.

Bonnie St. John

#16. Already the dream was coming apart, its bright silk strands unwinding into nebulous emotions, little coloured clouds of feeling being dispersed by the movement of my waking-up mind. This is how it's always been with Light Bulb Fragment dreams; by the time I'm fully awake, they're gone.

Steven Hall

#17. I now walk into the wild.

Jon Krakauer

#18. He was unheeded, happy, and near to the wild heart of life. He was alone and young and wilful and wildhearted, alone amid a waste of wild air and brackish waters and the seaharvest of shells and tangle and veiled grey sunlight.

Jon Krakauer

#19. Weeks passed, my suitcase grew more and more conventional. "I've got something for you," I'd say to a teenager. "It's nothing huge,

David Sedaris

#20. Here is a new game," said Scrooge. "One half hour, Spirit, only one!

Charles Dickens