Comfortable Quote by Jon Krakauer

To the contrary: His life hummed with meaning and purpose. But the meaning he wrestled from existence lay beyond the comfortable path: McCandless distrusted…

— Jon Krakauer

There was an enjoyment to being alive, he felt, that because of an underlying meaninglessness–like how a person alone for too long cannot feel…

— Tao Lin

“He was always seeking for a meaning in life, and here it seemed to him that a meaning was offered; but it was obscure…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“He sat there among them, listened to the buzz of their conversation. He was captivated by them. In that racket every voice touched a…

— Deszö Kosztolányi

“But he could not tell what that significance was. It was like a message which it was very important for him to receive, but…

— William Somerset Maugham

“As a young man, I was unlike McCandless in many important regards; most notably, I possessed neither his intellect nor his lofty ideals. But…

— Jon Krakauer

“He completely lacked any ardent interest that might have occupied his mind. His interior life was impoverished, had undergone a deterioration so severe that…

— Thomas Mann

His contempt for humanity grew fiercer, and at last he came to realize that the world is made up mostly of fools and scoundrels.…

— Joris-Karl Huysmans

“since his mind no longer entertained any lofty ideals, he had ceased to believe in (although he could not have expressly denied) their reality.…

— Marcel Proust

“He found something that he wanted, had always wanted and always would want -- not to be admired, as he had feared; not to…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“There was no noise, no effort, no consciences in anything he did, but in everything an indescribable lightness, a seeming impossibility of doing nothing…

— Charles Dickens

“He cared little for commonly experienced emotions, for everyday associations of ideas, now that the closing of his mind had grown more pronounced, and…

— Joris-Karl Huysmans