Top 14 Into The Wild Krakauer Quotes
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. I heard the bullets whistle
and believe me, there is something charming in the sound.
George Washington
#5. I certainly was not the romantic lead. I couldn't be that, because I was not that good looking. And that is something about Hollywood that I do not like at all. Why can't a woman who is just normally good looking fall in love? I mean, everybody in the movies is so good looking.
Elaine Stritch
#6. [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
#7. But in time the night, as all nights must, came to an end, and the morning dawned clear and bright.
David Eddings
#8. 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
#9. You could literally be perfect and people would still hate you, for being perfect.
Ryan Lochte
#10. 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
#11. The revelation that he was merely human, and frightfully so, was beyond my power to forgive.
Jon Krakauer
#12. They all settled into being the kind of friends when they heard from each other ... or when they occasionally got together. And when they were not in touch, they did not think of one another.
John Irving
#13. Don't settle down and sit in one place. Move around be nomadic, make each day a new horizon.
-Chris McCandless
Jon Krakauer
#14. 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
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