Mountain Heights Quotes

#1. In his bleak mercy, Death forever strips The soul of light and memory, rendering blind Our vision, lest surmounted deeps appal, As when on mountain-heights a glance behind Betrays with knowledge, and the climber slips Down gulfs of fear to some enormous fall.

Clark Ashton Smith

#2. No miles of level desert, no jagged mountain heights, no sea of endless blue Neither words nor tears, nor silent fears will keep me from coming back to you.

Lisa Kleypas

#3. I even see the cinema itself as a woman, with its alternation of light and darkness, of appearing and disappearing images

Federico Fellini

#4. When one drives away the negligent through vigilance, he climbs the heights of wisdom, and can see the suffering masses. Serene, you look upon the lost like one that stands on a mountain sees those that stand upon the plain.

Gautama Buddha

#5. There is nothing that isn't perfect, the only reason we don't see that perfection constantly is because we lack humility.

Frederick Lenz

#6. The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#7. We practice to learn how to let go, not how to increase our holding on to things. Enlightenment appears when you stop wanting anything.

Ajahn Chah

#8. If the Eagle Scouts had some sort of Sith equivalent, Marcone was it.

Jim Butcher

#9. To break boundaries interests me. With all the knowledge that is available now in the world, it should be accessible to everyone. You can get so much information on the Internet now, and yet there are so many places in the world where people just don't have the education.

Melanie Griffith

#10. You are going to find that the heights you've attained make for a long fall if you don't understand the mountain.

Marcus Sakey

#11. (I was) happily contended to be climbing the heights and the clouds by the brush method ... rendering the God-spirit in the mountains.

Marsden Hartley

#12. The only way to reach the mountain peaks of life is to forget about self and help other people reach greater heights.

Zig Ziglar

#13. Once you're successful with a certain kind of music, it's hard not to have faith in it as a means to stay successful.

Roberta Flack

#14. Highest of heights, I climb this mountain and feel one with the rock and grit and solitude echoing back at me.

Bradley Chicho

#15. Bears, dragons, tempestuous on mountain and river, Startle the forest and make the heights tremble. Clouds darken beneath the darkness of rain, streams pale with a pallor of mist. The gods of Thunder and Lightning Shatter the whole range.

Li Bai

#16. Across the river were two clouds in your eyes; and my kisses floated ascend from the heights of the sacred mountain -
there in the valley, where uncrowned hope of green fields and saffron came from flowers - delicate reverberations of rock walls we listened to our words of love.

Kristian Goldmund Aumann

#17. I learned it many, many years ago from a man who didn't know who he was, Your Majesty. It was a distant place where two lands meet and gods have died. But that is unimportant.

Brandon Sanderson

#18. Even now, I believe that to know how is useless if we do not know why. And there are too many who forbid us to ask.

Robin Wasserman

#19. When you are a child of the mountains yourself, you really belong to them. You need them. They become the faithful guardians of your life. If you cannot dwell on their lofty heights all your life, if you are in trouble, you want at least to look at them.

Maria Franziska Von Trapp

#20. Mountains have the power to call us into their realms and there, left forever, are our friends whose great souls were longing for the heights. Do not forget the mountaineers who have not returned from the summits.

Anatoli Boukreev