I climb upon the highest mountains, laughing at all tragedies - whether real or imaginary. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The climbing as a whole is not very esthetic or enjoyable; it is merely difficult. — Yvon Chouinard Copy Share Image
“I thought climbing the Devils Thumb would fix all that was wrong with my life. In the end, of course, it changed… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill and childbirth. — Edna Ferber Copy Share Image
All of us knew that climbing was a sure way to stay poor, a lousy way to impress people and definitely no… — Peter Croft Copy Share Image
I wonder if one can view risk like a drug, beneficial to the organism in the proper dose. Too much or too… — Tom Hornbein Copy Share Image
Just a reminder - a guidebook is no substitute for skill, experience, judgment and lots of tension. — Charlie Fowler Copy Share Image
I feel like I've gotten to a point where I don't know if it can get much bigger. I've been climbing and… — Flume Copy Share Image
One of the frustrating things for people who miss the first rally in a bull market is that they wait for the… — Martin Zweig Copy Share Image
Life, this anti-entropy, ceaselessly reloaded with energy, is a climbing force, toward order amidst chaos, toward light, among the darkness of the… — Albert Claude Copy Share Image
Mexican homes as a rule are closed off to the world by high blank walls of yellowish masonry, topped with broken glass… — Charles Portis Copy Share Image
I do not have a fear of heights at all. I was the kid who would see how high I could get… — Kyle Gallner Copy Share Image
In climbing you are always faced with new problems in which you must perform using intuitive movements, and then later analyze them… — Wolfgang Gullich Copy Share Image
It was titillating to brush up against the enigma of mortality, to steal a glimpse across its forbidden frontier. Climbing was a… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
I would also suggest that any aspiring writer begin with short stories. These days, I meet far too many young writers who… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
I think retirement is a little bit like death. I want to always be incredibly engaged and challenged, but in climbing, you… — Tommy Caldwell Copy Share Image
In most sports, your brain and your body will cooperate... But in rock climbing, it is the other way around. Your brain… — Jo Nesbo Copy Share Image
You can solo-climb Everest without using oxygen or you can pay guides and Sherpas to carry your loads, put ladders across crevasses,… — Yvon Chouinard Copy Share Image
Peculiar or not, it is my idea of pleasure. Why, why else do you lead this life you don't enjoy it? Don't… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“One day as Father and I were returning from our walk we found the Grote Markt cordoned off by a double ring… — Corrie Ten Boom Copy Share Image
There is, however, this consolation to the most way-worn traveler, upon the dustiest road, that the path his feet describe is so… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The nativity mystery “conceived from the Holy Spirit and born from the Virgin Mary”, means, that God became human, truly human out… — Karl Barth Copy Share Image
“I felt as though I were plunging into something new and quite abnormal. I had the strangest and most vivid impressions, such… — Herzog Maurice Copy Share Image
“I came to win, came as I always do, in order to justify who I am and what I have become; now… — Andy Kirkpatrick Copy Share Image
“You'll go far. How do I know? Because life is goosing you so hard you'll never stop climbing.” — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
If it had been possible to build the Tower of Babel without climbing it, it would have been permitted. — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
There's something ever egotistical in mountain-tops and towers, and all other grand and lofty things. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
For ambitious and greedy, there exists no summit, but only climbing up perpetually. — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Everybody free-solos. When you walk to the store, you're free-soloing. It's just a matter of the difficulty of the route. — John Bachar Copy Share Image
Climbing at altitude is like hitting your head against a brick wall - it's great when you stop. — Chris Darwin Copy Share Image
Life is like a mountain: after climbing up one side and sliding down the other, put up the sled. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
Alcohol, firearms and a 4 wheel drive can go a long ways towards making a rain day into a fun rest day. — Frank Stock Copy Share Image
I shriek when I am climbing at my absolute limit, but never shriek in the warm-up or when trying the moves. No… — Adam Ondra Copy Share Image
As a member of an escorted tour, you don't even have to know the Matterhorn isn't a tuba. — Temple Fielding Copy Share Image
People may spend their whole lives climbing the ladder of success only to find, once they reach the top, that the ladder… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“he was playing on the climbing structure by himself—or “by his own,” as the children sometimes charmingly put it.” — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
I found climbing to be a very tactile sport. There's no ball that is zipping through the air ready to crack you… — Erik Weihenmayer Copy Share Image
If you've climbed the first 140 meters it doesn't mean that you've succeeded; you are going to succeed by climbing the last 10 meters. — Alain Robert Copy Share Image
Had I listened to my agent, I'd be running around in tights, climbing buildings and stuff. — Heath Ledger Copy Share Image
One of my earliest memories is of being about three and a half, climbing through the legs of a man who I… — Samantha Bond Copy Share Image
