Top 28 Reinhold Messner Quotes
#1. ... I only know that when physical and emotional reserves remain unchallenged, this feeds the spiritual cancer of a life unfulfilled.
-Reinhold Messner
Bernadette McDonald
#2. What counts are merely the experiences one gains along the way.
-Reinhold Messner
Bernadette McDonald
#3. There is no single, correct objective in mountaineering; there are only possibilities. One of them leads beyond the impossible.
- Reinhold Messner
Bernadette McDonald
#4. ... one of the most decisive factors enduring a borderline situation is the WILL TO SURVIVE.
-Reinhold Messner
Bernadette McDonald
#5. We have come a long way, we have a long way to go. In between we are somewhere.
(Attributed to Reinhold Messner?)
Kim Stanley Robinson
#6. It is said that a man is rejuvenated every seven years- that all his cells are replaced. I wonder, does that also apply to his spirit?
- Reinhold Messner
Bernadette McDonald
#7. Inner harmony is the prerequisite for any climber who seeks to push the frontiers; without it he should give up extreme mountaineering.
-Reinhold Messner
Bernadette McDonald
#10. My market value increases with every outside critisism. Therefore, the frequently raised contention that I am the most highly critisized mountaineer does not disturb me in the slightest.
Reinhold Messner
#11. If I can't have love, if I can't find peace, / Give me a bitter glory.
Anna Akhmatova
#12. Without the possibility of death,
adventure is not possible.
Reinhold Messner
#13. If we had pursued the war on cancer which President Nixon declared in 1970, Jack Kemp might be alive today.
Arlen Specter
#14. The wonderful things in life are the things you do, not the things you have.
Reinhold Messner
#15. I want to solve a climbing problem in the mountains, not in the sporting goods store.
Reinhold Messner
#16. He'd forgiven who he needed to forgive, let go of what he needed to, and accepted himself as he was. Archibald Alexander Leach, Cary Grant, and all.
Jennifer Grant
#18. Today, I will trust that God will do for me what I cannot do for myself. I will do my part - working the Twelve Steps and letting God do the rest.
Melody Beattie
#19. If you have a high-way on Everest, you don't meet the mountain. If everything is prepared, and you have a guide who is responsible for your security, you cannot meet the mountain. Meeting mountains is only possible if you ... are out there in self-sufficiency.
Reinhold Messner
#20. It is the very strangeness of nature that makes science engrossing. That ought to be at the center of science teaching. There are more than seven-times-seven types of ambiguity in science, awaiting analysis. The poetry of Wallace Stevens is crystal-clear alongside the genetic code.
Lewis Thomas
#21. I think it takes a lot of desire because I think a lot of people who've never written books don't know quite how hard it is to stick with, to put in the amount of time and just make the commitment to just sit there every day and do it while everybody else is out having fun.
Ted Bell
#23. In my state of spiritual abstraction, I no longer belong to myself and to my eyesight. I am nothing more than a single narrow gasping lung, floating over the mists and summits.
Reinhold Messner
#24. Seen from above, landscapes are made up of mountains and watercourses. Just as a transparent model of the human body consists of a framework of bone and a network of arteries, the earth's crust is structured in mountain ridges, river, creeks, and gullies.
Reinhold Messner
#27. I was in continual agony; I have never in my life been so tired as on the summit of Everest that day. I just sat and sat there, oblivious to everything ...
Reinhold Messner
#28. I always take the same perspective with each new adventure. I put myself in the position of being at the end of my life looking back. Then I ask myself if what I am doing is important to me.
Reinhold Messner
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