Climbers Quote by Mark Twain Download Open image “But we are all insane, anyway. Note the mountain-climbers.” — Mark Twain ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Climbers Insane Insanity Mountain Mountain climbers Notes
As climbers, we need to sacrifice our comfort, our safety, and arguably our sanity, as a tithe to the mountain...We need the mountains but… — Lincoln Hall Copy Share Image
“There is no mountain on earth which is greater than the mountain of human madness!” — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
Some mountaineers are proud of having done all their climbs without bivouac. How much they have missed ! And the same applies to those… — Gaston Rebuffat Copy Share Image
I'm kind of obsessed by Everest and all those men that mountaineer and take themselves to extreme limits. — Sam Heughan Copy Share Image
Mountaineering is more about mental strength to conquer rather than physical. — Arunima Sinha Copy Share Image
I cannot agree that mountain climbing is merely one manifestation of man's spiritual aspirations. I think instead it is a hysterical paroxysm of his… — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
“Climbing mountains is an act I happen to love, but it is only one form of adventure. There are thousands. In fact, there's one… — Mark Jenkins Copy Share Image
If you despise the mountains you have climbed, you are not welcomed by the mountains you have not yet climbed! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Once again we've found ourselves on a mountain without climbing gear. — Maryam Shafaq Copy Share Image
Sometimes you have to fall from the mountain to realize what you are climbing for. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The bizarre trend in mountaineers is not the risk they take, but the large degree to which they value life. They are not crazy… — Lisa Morgan Copy Share Image
Sing like no one's listening, love like you've never been hurt, dance like nobody's watching, and live like its heaven on earth. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“The Creator sat upon the throne, thinking. Behind him stretched the illimitable continent of heaven, steeped in a glory of light and color; before… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A man accustomed to American food and American domestic cookery would not starve to death suddenly in Europe, but I think he would gradually… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I never write Metropolis for seven cents because I can get the same price for city. I never write policeman because I can get… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The higher animals get their teeth without pain or inconvenience. Man gets his through months and months of cruel torture; he will never get… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“As far as I can see, Italy, for fifteen hundred years, has turned all her energies, all her finances, and all her industry to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Begin with the determination to succeed and the work is half done already. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Many public-school children seem to know only two dates—1492 and 4th of July; and as a rule they don't know what happened on either… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There's a lot of mountain climbers trapped inside of bodies of people behind the counter at Kinko's. — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
In his bleak mercy, Death forever strips The soul of light and memory, rendering blind Our vision, lest surmounted deeps appal, As when on… — Clark Ashton Smith Copy Share Image
Lonnie says it doesn't take long to write a song if you're stricken with a severe case of the Tennysons. He wasn't necessarily talking… — Dan Jenkins Copy Share Image
In his laborious efforts to attain mountaintops, where the air is lighter and purer, the climber gains new strength of limb. In the endeavor… — Pope Pius XI Copy Share Image
the deepest part of me is, and will always be, a climber. ... No matter where I go, I always feel like a climber. — Stacy Allison Copy Share Image
Enjoyment, on the other hand, is not always pleasant, and it can be very stressful at times. A mountain climber, for example, may be… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
Everest has a special place in all of our imaginations. For centuries, Everest was a little bit like the moon. It was the place… — Richard Engel Copy Share Image
If some people are right, artists are put into this world not to practice their art, but to talk about it. And judging by… — Ethel Smyth Copy Share Image
Many have questioned the quality of this sort of achievement, deploring the use of pitons, tension traverses and expansion bolts, but the record speaks… — Allen Steck Copy Share Image
Climbing for speed records will probably become more popular, a mania which has just begun. Climbers climb not just to see how fast and… — Yvon Chouinard Copy Share Image
