Into the wild quotes: The quotes from “Into the Wild” by Jon Krakauer show the deep and thoughtful journey of Chris McCandless, who desired to escape the confines of society and find meaning in the wilderness. These quotes produce a sense of wanderlust, adventure, and self-discovery.
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Quotes from Into the wild
- “I’d like to repeat the advice that I gave you before, in that I think you really should make a radical change in your lifestyle and begin to boldly do things which you may previously never have thought of doing or been too hesitant to attempt.”
- “The very essence of instinct is that it’s followed independently of reason.”
- “Don’t settle down and sit in one place. Move around, be nomadic, make each day a new horizon.”
- “The freedom and simple beauty is too good to pass up.”
- “I now walk into the wild.”
- “The sea’s only gifts are harsh blows and, occasionally, the chance to feel strong. Now, I don’t know much about the sea, but I do know that that’s the way it is here. And I also know how important it is in life not necessarily to be strong but to feel strong, to measure yourself at least once.”
- “Happiness is only real when shared.”
- “I’m going to Alaska.”
- “The sobering reality of things was beginning to filter through my armor.”
Into the wild quotes
- “The silence was an intense roar.”
- “I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence.”
- “I’m positive that eight to 10 years from now, I’ll be looking back on this as the happiest period of my life.”
- “You are wrong if you think Joy emanates only or principally from human relationships. God has placed it all around us.”
- “The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.”
- “I think careers are a 20th-century invention and I don’t want one.”
- “Rather than love, than money, than faith, than fame, than fairness… give me the truth.”
Quotes in into the wild
- “The truth is that I’m never going to be a great artist.”
- “Some people feel like they don’t deserve love. They walk away quietly into empty spaces, trying to close the gaps of the past.”
- “So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality, nothing is more dangerous to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future.”
- “You don’t need human relationships to be happy, God has placed it all around us.”
- “You are wrong if you think that the joy of life comes principally from human relationships.”
Quotes of into the wild
- “It is important in life not to be strong but to feel strong.”
- “I don’t want to know what time it is. I don’t want to know what day it is or where I am.”
- “Please return all library books by September 13.”
- “I read somewhere… how important it is in life not necessarily to be strong… but to feel strong.”
- “Some people feel like they don’t deserve love. They walk away quietly into empty spaces, trying to close the gaps to the past.”
- “You are wrong if you think that the joy of life comes principally from human relationships.”
- “The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.”
- “So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality, nothing is more dangerous to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future.”
- “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.”
- “The trip was to be an odyssey in the fullest sense of the word, an epic journey that would change everything.”
- “You don’t need human relationships to be happy, God has placed it all around us.”
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