Climbing Quotes

597 Climbing quotes by 400 unique authors

It was titillating to brush up against the enigma of mortality, to steal a glimpse across its forbidden frontier. Climbing was a magnificient activity, I… — Jon Krakauer
it's so easy to get lost inside a problem that seems so big at the time it's like a river a that's so wide it… — Carrie Underwood
I gotta go to the bathroom," Emby mumbles. "You should have thought of that before you left," says Hayden, putting on his best mother voice.… — Neal Shusterman
If you want someone to be ignored then build a life-size bronze statue of them and stick it in the middle of town. It doesn't… — Banksy
For official record, announce instructor, the state requires no epic hero. No strive achieve personal celebrity of spotlight and applause. Lectures instructor, the state desires… — Chuck Palahniuk
Miles is... Miles; close to a force of nature, climbing up out of his own pages and escaping subordination to any opinion of mine. — Lois McMaster Bujold
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was wrong with my life. In the end, of course, it changed almost nothing. But… — Jon Krakauer
It wasn’t a gun wound. I just fell. (Zarek) No offense, but you’d have to fall of Mount Everest to have those kinds of wounds.… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
I have no memory of climbing the stairs up to the roof. I don't even know how to get where I am, which is a… — Holly Black
I’ve heard the expression climbing walls, but I never thought I’d experience it, let alone like that,” she murmured, her mouth curling into what was… — Jeaniene Frost
He who climbs upon the highest mountains laughs at all tragedies, real or imaginary. — Friedrich Nietzsche
I had forgotten: this is what it feels like to live in time. The lurching forward, the sensation of falling of a cliff into darkness,… — Charles Yu
THAT crazed girl improvising her music. Her poetry, dancing upon the shore, Her soul in division from itself Climbing, falling She knew not where, Hiding… — William Butler Yeats
Once you let yourself believe that you've gotten to the top, you've lost sight of the real goal. Which is to keep climbing no matter… — David Archuleta
Fading, fading: strength beyond hope and despair climbing the third stair. Lord, I am not worthy Lord, I am not worthy but speak the word… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Above the comforts of Base Camp, the expedition in fact became an almost Calvinistic undertaking. The ratio of misery to pleasure was greater by an… — Jon Krakauer
Lying on the ceiling. Refusing to go to school. Not opening up to me. Climbing water towers. "No, she's all right. — Kami Garcia
She pushed the gardener away and called for them. In her sleep she had seen love. It was poisoning. It was possessing. Devouring. Or it… — Francesca Lia Block
And thus ever by day and night, under the sun and under the stars, climbing the dusty hills and toiling along the weary plains, journeying… — Charles Dickens
I nudged myself closer to the ledge and closed my eyes and thought 'Oh what a life this is, why do we have to be… — Jack Kerouac
The nativity mystery “conceived from the Holy Spirit and born from the Virgin Mary”, means, that God became human, truly human out of his own… — Karl Barth
There's an undeniable pleasure in stepping into an open-top sports car driven by a beautiful woman. It feels like you're climbing into a metaphor. — Hugh Laurie
The secret of this kind of climbing, is like Zen. Don't think. Just dance along. It's the easiest thing in the world, actually easier than… — Jack Kerouac
Every concert pianist knows that the surest way to ruin a performance is to be aware of what the fingers are doing. Every dancer and… — Peter Watts
Juliana?” the words were low and far—too calm for her husband, who had found that he rather enjoyed the full spectrum of emotion now that… — Sarah MacLean

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