Anthropology Quote by Leo Tolstoy

“I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love.…

— Jon Krakauer

“I want movement, not a calm course of existence. I want excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love. I…

— Leo Tolstoy

“i wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. i wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love.…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Asking why had somehow led me to the thing that I loved—the feeling of moving over the earth, with the earth, the sensation of…

— Scott Jurek

“I wasn't prepared for the intensity of it.It was like going from blissful emptiness to experiencing a roller coaster of sensations all at once.”

— Alexandra Adornetto

“Possibility. Was that all that it took to feel alive? Could it be that it wasn’t getting the thing you desire itself but the…

— Lise McClendon

“I lost the ability to fear and panic. Instead I felt practical and causal. I had never known time to pass so acutely before.…

— Sarah Hall

“I concluded that the best thing for me and for those around me was to want nothing, to be enthusiastic about nothing, to be…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“It wasn’t what I’d characterize as a happy part of my life, living as I was, a balled-up mass of unfulfilled desires. I was…

— Haruki Murakami

“I was moving and breathing but everything else had become so slow. I felt that I was trapped inside a still landscape, one of…

— Tracy Emin

“It was a fantastic feeling, but it left me restless because the most important thing in it was the longing, for what was going…

— Karl Ove Knausgård

“My life felt so cluttered and obstructed that I could hardly breathe. I inhabited a closed, concentrated world, airless and without exits.”

— Nell Casey