Everett Ruess Quotes

Happiness lies in a large measure of self-forgetfulness, either in work . . . or in the love of others. ♥

I thought that there were two rules in life - never count the cost, and never do anything unless you can do it wholeheartedly. Now is the time to live.

But then, I am always being overwhelmed. I require it to sustain life.

Say that I starved; that I was lost and weary; That I was burned and blinded by the desert sun; Footsore, thirsty, sick with strange diseases; Lonely and wet and cold, but that I kept my dream!

I shall go on some last wilderness trip, to a place I have known and loved. I shall not return.

I have seen almost more beauty than I can bear.

I have not tired of the wilderness; rather I enjoy its beauty and the vagrant life I lead, more keenly all the time.

While I am alive, I intend to live.

Always, I want to live more intensely and richly.

I have been in many beautiful places, and did not wish to taste, but to drink deep.

I'll never stop wandering. And when the time comes to die, I'll find the wildest, loneliest, most desolate spot there is.

I'm drunk on the fiery elixer of beauty.

I don't think I could ever settle down. I have known too much of the depths of life already, and I would prefer anything to an anticlimax.