Top 58 Mccandless's Quotes
#1. According to the moral absolutism that characterizes McCandless's beliefs, a challenge in which a successful outcome is assured isn't a challenge at all.
Jon Krakauer
#2. Perhaps strength doesn't reside in having never been broken, but in the courage required to grow strong in the broken places. - Kristen
Carine McCandless
#3. By design McCandless came into the country with insufficient provisions, and he lacked certain pieces of equipment deemed essential by many Alaskans: a large-caliber rifle, map and compass, an ax. This has been regarded as evidence not just of stupidity but of the even greater sin of arrogance.
Jon Krakauer
#4. Tramping is too easy with all this money. My days were more exciting when I was penniless and had to forage around for my next meal.
As for me, I've decided that I'm going to live this life for some time to come. The freedom and simple beauty of it is just too good to pass up.
Christopher McCandless
#5. To symbolize the complete severance from his previous life, he even adopted a new name. No longer would he answer to Chris McCandless; he was now Alexander Supertramp, master of his own destiny.
Anonymous
#6. S.O.S. I NEED YOUR HELP. I AM INJURED, NEAR DEATH, AND TOO WEAK TO HIKE OUT OF HERE. I AM ALL ALONE, THIS IS NO JOKE. IN THE NAME OF GOD, PLEASE REMAIN TO SAVE ME. I AM OUT COLLECTING BERRIES CLOSE BY AND SHALL RETURN THIS EVENING. THANK YOU, CHRIS MCCANDLESS. AUGUST?
Jon Krakauer
#7. To the contrary: His life hummed with meaning and purpose. But the meaning he wrestled from existence lay beyond the comfortable path: McCandless distrusted the value of things than came easily.
Jon Krakauer
#10. But in reality nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure.
Christopher McCandless
#11. It is a bad thing not to be able to stand solitude. It is a wonderful thing to embrace it, and I was ready.
Carine McCandless
#14. That's the purity of nature. It may be harsh in its honesty, but it never lies to you.
Carine McCandless
#15. Don't settle down and sit in one place. Move around be nomadic, make each day a new horizon.
-Chris McCandless
Jon Krakauer
#17. By visualizing information, we turn it into a landscape that you can explore with your eyes: a sort of information map. And when you're lost in information, an information map is kind of useful.
David McCandless
#18. Personally, I find visualisations great for helping me understand the world and for sifting the huge amounts of information that deluge me every day.
David McCandless
#22. I saw leaving any situation where I was treated with disrespect as evidence of my courage. I wanted my daughters to learn that lesson of worth from me.
Carine McCandless
#23. He measured himself and those around him by an impossibly rigorous moral code.
Carine McCandless
#24. It is important in life not to be strong, but to feel strong, to measure yourself at least once. If you want something in life, reach out and grab it.
Christopher McCandless
#25. 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
#26. No phone. No pool. No pets. No cigarettes. Ultimate freedom ... No longer to be poisoned by civilization, he flees, and walks alone upon the land to become Lost in the Wild.
Christopher McCandless
#28. Data is the kind of ubiquitous resource that we can shape to provide new innovations and new insights, and it's all around us, and it can be mined very easily.
David McCandless
#29. Everett was strange,' Sleight concedes. 'Kind of different. But him and McCandless, at least they tried to follow their dream. That's what was great about them. They tried. Not many do.' (pg. 96)
Jon Krakauer
#30. I would rather write songs and then practice with the band. Just the band camaraderie is awesome and then writing music and then just listening to it and saying 'Dude, we made that music!' That's really fun.
Sam McCandless
#31. It's not about the things he gave us, Carine," he said softly. "It's about the memories. You can't touch those with your hands. Everything you can touch with your hands is just stuff.
Carine McCandless
#32. Over the years, online, we've laid down a huge amount of information and data, and we irrigate it with networks and connectivity, and it's been worked and tilled by unpaid workers and governments.
David McCandless
#33. What I love - and I'm a journalist - and what I love is finding hidden patterns; I love being a data detective.
David McCandless
#34. It seemed like everything became centered and peaceful when there was no choice but to make nature the focus.
Carine McCandless
#35. It is easy, when you are young, to believe that what you desire is no less than what you deserve, to assume that if you want something badly enough, it is your God-given right to have it.
Jon Krakauer
#37. Visualizing information is a form of knowledge compression.
David McCandless
#38. ...if you plan everything out completely from beginning to end, you destroy your chance for adventure.
Carine McCandless
#39. I love information. I want to stay current. I don't want to be under-informed. But I'm busy. Sometimes, I need an instant overview of a situation that I can grasp in a second.
David McCandless
#40. He wasn't antisocial - he always had friends, and everybody liked him - but he could go off and entertain himself for hours. He didn't seem to need toys or friends. He could be alone without being lonely.
Carine McCandless
#41. I've decided I'm going to live this life for some time to come. The freedom and simple beauty is just too good to pass up.
Christopher McCandless
#42. In an endless jungle of websites with text-based content, a beautiful image with a lot of space and colour can be like walking into a clearing. It's a relief.
David McCandless
#44. It is a bad thing," he said, "not to be able to stand solitude.
Carine McCandless
#45. The people follow him."
"Because they have no choice. They follow, but do they love him?"
"Some do," Appah Rao answered. "But what does it matter? Why should a ruler want his people's love? Their obedience, yes, but love? Love is for children, McCandless, and for gods and for women.
Bernard Cornwell
#46. Keep moving forward and be true to yourself. You are the only one who can ensure your own happiness.
Carine McCandless
#47. I think emotion is just anything that is emotional, you know, people can feel with music. Music is already so emotional, like the strings, the chords, and the notes and the melodies and stuff. And then you throw on a topic that everyone can relate to. That's gonna be real music.
Sam McCandless
#48. Christopher McCandless:I will miss you too, but you are wrong if you think that the joy of life comes principally from the joy of human relationships. God's place is all around us, it is in everything and in anything we can experience. People just need to change the way they look at things.
Shunryu Suzuki
#49. It is the experiences, the great triumphant joy of living to the fullest extent in which real meaning is found. God it's great to be alive!
Christopher McCandless
#51. I need your help. I am injured, near death, and too weak to hike out of here. I am all alone. This is no joke. In the name of God, please remain to save me. I am out collecting berries close by and shall return this evening. Thank you, Chris McCandless.
Christopher McCandless
#52. It's history as it should have happened. It's history made better.
R.A. McCandless
#53. Information design has been around since the 1970s. Pioneers like Yale University design guru Edward Tufte and design agency Pentagram have long known and used its power. But now with the rise of the Internet, it's having something of a second birth.
David McCandless
#54. [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
#55. I was seeing too many Walt McCandlesses in the world and not enough Chrises.
Carine McCandless
#56. I think it's therapeutic when we play. It's just like therapy.
Sam McCandless
#58. I don't want to know what time it is. I don't want to know what day it is or where I am. None of that matters.
Christopher McCandless
