Climbing Quotes

597 Climbing quotes by 400 unique authors

Pucky lads, a wee bit over their heads. — Doug Scott
Eastward the dawn rose, ridge behind ridge into the morning, and vanished out of eyesight into guess; it was no more than a glimmer blending… — J.R.R. Tolkien
The world is a better place to live in because it contains human beings who will give up ease and security in order to do… — Walter Lippmann
If in normal conditions it is skill, which counts, in such extreme situations, it is the spirit, which saves. — Walter Bonatti
I have noticed that youngsters given to the climbing habit usually do something when they grow up — Elbert Hubbard
The mountain is nothing without people on it. Often you part expedition exasperated, but a year or two later you go back with the same… — Greg Child
In climbing you are always faced with new problems in which you must perform using intuitive movements, and then later analyze them to figure out… — Wolfgang Gullich
Near the foot of the mountain we visited a yogi who dwelled in a hollow tunneled beneath a boulder. He pondered our notion of climbing… — Greg Child
Only last week I murdered a rock, injured a stone and hospitalized a brick. — Muhammad Ali
Was mich nicht zugrunde richtet, macht mich starker. — Friedrich Nietzsche
I piss on you all from a considerable height. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Ever since a small boy, I have loved just to look at the mountains, to see them in different lights and from different angles, to… — Wilfrid Noyce
I looked back at the summit of the mountain, which seemed but a cubit high in comparison with the height of human contemplation, were in… — Petrarch
Although love dwells in gorgeous palaces, and sumptuous apartments, more willingly than in miserable and desolate cottages, it cannot be denied but that he sometimes… — Giovanni Boccaccio
There is probably no pleasure equal to the pleasure of climbing a dangerous Alp; but it is a pleasure which is confined strictly to people… — Mark Twain
No one can have a peaceful life who thinks too much about lengthening it. — Seneca the Younger
There's something ever egotistical in mountain tops and towers, and all things grand and lofty. — Herman Melville
One who can move mountains start with the little stones. — Confucius
The silence of the mountain is even more beautiful once the birds are quiet. — Taisen Deshimaru
The only zen thoughts you can find on a mountain summit are those you brought yourself. — Robert M. Pirsig

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