Climbing Quotes · Page 5

Before climbing the summits, you must first walk in the down valleys!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

On a charcoal kiln a vine keeps climbing, while being burned to death.

— Soseki Natsume

To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.

— Aristophanes

As long as I can keep pushing on and climbing the ladder, then that's good.

— Patrick Bamford

Only through suffering can we find ourselves.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

The kind of climbing I like is fast and as free as possible of gadgetry.

— Jeff Lowe

[On social climbing:] Everything that goes up must come down.

— Maxine Cheshire

A dwarf can stand on a mountain, he's no taller.

— Seneca the Younger

I suffer from vertigo. It's paralyzing in extreme situations. The most scared I've been as an adult was trying to conquer that…

— Hari Kunzru

The lives of people are like young trees in a forest. They are being choked by climbing vines. The vines are old…

— Sherwood Anderson

Riding a bike works your legs but not your brain. Playing chess works your mind but not your body. Climbing brings it…

— Pat Ament

If in normal conditions it is skill, which counts, in such extreme situations, it is the spirit, which saves.

— Walter Bonatti

Step by step, one by one, higher and higher. Step by step, rung by rung, climbing Jacob's ladder.

— Huey Lewis

Then came a bigger fear. Not the threat of imminent injury, but the fear that if I didn't go back up, I…

— John Sherman

A few hours of mountain climbing make a blackguard and a saint two rather similar creatures.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Enslavement to your own weakness - be it an addiction to alcohol, or to a woman or to fame - it's degrading,…

— Wojciech Kurtyka

Between the shores of the oceans and the summit of the highest mountain is a secret route that you must absolutely take…

— Khalil Gibran

I say the last 10 percent of the way to perfection takes so much of your life that it isn't worth the…

— Yvon Chouinard

I am an amateur mountain climber. Once or twice a year I go off to Chamonix in the French Alps, under Mont…

— Robert Littell

[T]he blossom of benevolence, of charity, is the fairest flower, no matter whether it blooms by the side of a hovel, or…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

I could have saved my marriage if I had chosen to. But when I was forced to take a new look, I…

— Jeff Lowe

We are taught to consume. And that's what we do. But if we realized that there really is no reason to consume,…

— River Phoenix

When I meet people who say - which they do all of the time - 'I must just tell you, my great…

— Christopher Hitchens

I was so grateful to have made 'Into the Wild' before I made 'Speed Racer' because on 'Speed Racer' I was indoors…

— Emile Hirsch

When you are totally defeated you begin again to enjoy the small things around you. Just going to the mountains, not for…

— Wojciech Kurtyka

Jill told me that when you're really in love, you know right away. I'm not exactly sure how this happens. Is it…

— Alice Hoffman

Think of all the women you know who will not allow themselves to be seen without makeup. I often wonder how they…

— Bell Hooks

Climbing is a heroic liberating act; and height spontaneously symbolizes things of high value, be it in the value of worldly power…

— Rudolf Arnheim

For official record, announce instructor, the state requires no epic hero. No strive achieve personal celebrity of spotlight and applause. Lectures instructor,…

— Chuck Palahniuk

I nudged myself closer to the ledge and closed my eyes and thought 'Oh what a life this is, why do we…

— Jack Kerouac

“Perhaps there’s no better act of simplification than climbing a mountain. For an afternoon, a day, or a week, it’s a way…

— Ken Ilgunas

The experience of climbing Kilimanjaro affected me so powerfully that, for a long time afterward, if I caught myself saying, "I'm not…

— Michael Crichton

To me, traveling by bus is like climbing into a closet and watching 'Das Boot.'

— Buzz Osborne

Placing my buttocks on a cold toilet seat is my climbing Mount Everest.

— Anonymous

Arsenal was in a decline. We had to stop this and begin climbing.

— Unai Emery

No one can have a peaceful life who thinks too much about lengthening it.

— Seneca the Younger

I just like climbing things and exploring.

— Noah Centineo

I am climbing a difficult road; but the glory gives me strength.

— Anonymous

Sometimes you have to fall from the mountain to realize what your climbing for.

— Junie

Bouldering is the synthesis of all skills needed for climbing

— Ron Kauk