Nostalgia Quote by Jon Krakauer Download Open image ““buffeted by the passions and longings of youth.”” — Jon Krakauer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Nostalgia Passion Youth
“Oh how can we, scarce mastering our passions, expect that youth should keep itself in check?” — Friedrich von Schiller Copy Share Image
“It is the juices of youth, the joy and gladness carried along through the busy years that make old age tolerable.” — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
“Youth's longing misconceived inconsistency. Those whom I deemed Changed to my kin, the friends of whom I dreamed, Have aged and lost our old… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Longing on a large scale is what makes history. This is just a kid with a local yearning but he is part of an… — Don Delillo Underworld Copy Share Image
“All the sanguine guesswork of youth is there, and the silliness; all the novelty of being alive and impressed by the urgency of tremendous… — Siegfried Sassoon Copy Share Image
“It’s the beautiful thing about youth. There’s a weightlessness that permeates everything because no damning choices have been made, no paths committed to, and… — Blake Crouch Copy Share Image
“The purpose of youth is to experience variety while it is still interesting.” — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“Youth is like having a big plate of candy. Sentimentalists think they want to be in the pure, simple state they were in before… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Early on a difficult climb, especially a solo climb, you’re hyper-aware of the abyss pulling at your back, constantly feeling its call, its immense hunger. To resist takes tremendous conscious effort, you don’t dare let your guard down for an instant. The void puts you on edge, makes your movements tentative and clumsy. But as the climb continues, you grow… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share
“Climbing mattered. The danger bathed the world in a halogen glow that caused everything—the sweep of the rock, the orange and yellow lichens, the… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
“It is easy, when you are young, to believe that what you desire is no less than what you deserve, to assume that if you want something badly enough , it is your God-given right to have it...I was a raw youth who mistook passion for insight and acted according to an obscure, gap-ridden logic. I thought climbing the Devils… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share
He read a lot. He used a lot of big words. I think maybe part of what got him into trouble was that he did too much thinking. Sometimes he tried too hard to make sense of the world, to figure out why people were bad to each other so often. A couple of times I tried to tell him… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share
But [Everett] and McCandless, at least they tried to follow their dream. That’s what was great about them. They tried. Not many do. — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
“he was ready, perhaps, to shed a little of the armor he wore around his heart, that upon returning to civilization, he intended to… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
“Continually question climbing pursuits. Do they draw one back to the climbing community? Or do they lead along the [inner-directed] path? This questioning generates a tension that is heightened by disillusionment. Ultimately, one reaches an emptiness, and this is where our basic spontaneous nature leads to the beginning of the path... Thereafter one can continually stand apart from the outer… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share
“The boy unmasked the gaping void in Franz's life even as he helped fill it.” — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
“Unlike Muir and Thoreau, McCandless went into the wilderness not primarily to ponder nature or the world at large but, rather, to explore the inner country of his own soul. He soon discovered, however, what Muir and Thoreau already knew: An extended stay in the wilderness inevitably directs one's attention outward as much as inward, and it is impossible to… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share
I'm intrigued by fanatics - people who are seduced by the promise, or the illusion, of the absolute. — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
You are wrong if you think Joy emanates only or principally from human relationships. God has placed it all around us. It is in… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
I mean, how can you not be a feminist if you have a brain in your head? If you’re not a feminist, then you’re… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
Nostalgia keeps dissolving the ironic narratives in which I have contained my past. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
“When I was alive, I aimed to be a student not of longing but of light.” — Maggie Nelson Copy Share Image
“Haunted by the longing to feel something real, deep and magical; I searched for a shared ecstasy... that's when you came along.” — Lebo Grand Copy Share Image
“Whenever I think about ancient cultures nostalgia seizes me. Perhaps this is nothing but envy of the sweet slowness of the history of that time. The era of ancient Egyptian culture lasted for several thousand years; the era of Greek antiquity for almost a thousand. In this respect, a single human life imitates the history of mankind; at first it… — Milan Kundera Copy Share
Sometimes it has to do with other longings that are much more existential. Sometimes you go elsewhere not because you are not liking the… — Esther Perel Copy Share Image
“Not very long ago I was driving with my husband on the back roads of Grey County, which is to the north and east of Huron County. We passed a country store standing empty at a crossroads. It had old-fashioned store windows, with long narrow panes. Out in front there was a stand for gas pumps which weren't there anymore.… — Alice Munro Copy Share
“Can you miss someone you haven’t seen for longer than you knew them? Maybe we rue the time not the person.” — Hannah Rothschild Copy Share Image
A vacation is like love - anticipated with pleasure, experienced with discomfort, and remembered with nostalgia. — Evan Esar Copy Share Image
“Let us not burthen our remembrance with A heaviness that's gone.” — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
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