Alone Quote by Christopher McCandless

“No longer to be poisoned by civilization he flees, and walks alone upon the land to become lost in the wild.”

— Christopher McCandless

Bare heights of loneliness...a wilderness whose burning winds sweep over glowing sands, what are they to HIM? Even there He can refresh us, even…

— Amy Carmichael

This was life! Ah, how he loved it! Civilization held nothing like this in its narrow and circumscribed sphere, hemmed in by restrictions and…

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

He is no longer a city dweller who has even once in his life caught a ruff or seen how, on clear and cool…

— Anton Chekhov

He had no longer any need for home, for he carried his Gormenghast within him. All that he sought was jostling within himself. He…

— Mervyn Peake

Without wilderness, the world's a cage.

— David R. Brower

Man is alone in the world, in tremendous eternal isolation. He has no object outside himself; lives for nothing else; he is far removed…

— Otto Weininger

He was unheeded, happy, and near to the wild heart of life. He was alone and young and wilful and wildhearted, alone amid a…

— Jon Krakauer

Each time he took a walk, he felt as though he were leaving himself behind, and by giving himself up to the movement of…

— Paul Auster

Man must be able to escape civilization if he is to survive. Some of his greatest needs are for refuges and retreats where he…

— William O. Douglas

Soon enough his head would be swimming with tales of derring-do and high adventure, tales of beautiful maidens kissed, of evildoers shot with pistols…

— Neil Gaiman

“Worldly possessions didn't matter much to him, but his freedom did. He could come and go as he pleased, with nothing more than the…

— Rose Wynters