Mountain Quotes

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Our ignorance allowed us to live, as you are in the mountains, and your rope is frayed and about to break, but you don't know… — Primo Levi
She explained to me later that she must have been possessed by a subconscious desire to be raped. Well she found me in the mountains… — Ian Fleming
The mountain has left me feeling renewed, more content and positive than Iâ€™ve been for weeks, as if something has been given back after a… — Richard R. Nelson
Wherever I am, the world comes after me. It offers me its busyness. It does not believe that I do not want it. Now I… — Mary Oliver
Nothing, not even the best and noblest, can go on as it now is. Nothing, not even what is lowest and most bestial, will not… — C.S. Lewis
These temple destroyers, devotees of ravaging commercialism, seem to have a perfect contempt for Nature, and, instead of lifting their eyes to the God of… — John Muir
In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality. It is as final as the mountains: a fact. There it is. When you realize it… — William S. Burroughs
Never underestimate the power of funny, it moves mountains. — James Patterson
Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin… — Khalil Gibran
Saying good night to the mountains, the sun throws his most beautiful rays to them, that they may not forget him till the morning. — Johanna Spyri
Randy [Rhoads] was laid to rest at a place called Mountain View Cemetery, where his grandparents were buried. I made a vow there and then… — Ozzy Osbourne
So let us then try to climb the mountain, not by stepping on what is below us, but to pull us up at what is… — M.C. Escher
It was a kiss to level mountains and shake stars from the sky. It was a kiss to make angels faint and demons weep...a passionate,… — Lisa Kleypas
In your hands The dog, the donkey, surely they know They are alive. Who would argue otherwise? But now, after years of consideration, I am… — Mary Oliver
â€¦life isnâ€™t a puzzle to be solved. Itâ€™s an adventure to be savored. Let every challenge be a new mountain to climb, not an obstacle… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Is a mountain only a huge stone? Is a planet an enormous mountain? — Stanislaw Lem
As with all journeys, the Way has an end, though it should not be imagined as a straight road leading to a fixed destination but… — Reza Aslan
She devoured stories with rapacious greed, ranks of black marks on white, sorting themselves into mountains and trees, stars, moons and suns, dragons, dwarfs, and… — A. S. Byatt
You are the mountain, you are the rock You are the cord and youâ€™re the spark You are the eagle, you are the lark You… — Jason Mraz
They say behind mountains are more mountains. — Edwidge Danticat

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