Jon Krakauer Quotes

He needed his solitude at times, but he wasn't a hermit. He did a lot of socializing. Sometimes I think it was like he was storing up company for the times when he knew nobody would be around.

Almost every magazine piece I've ever written, I felt like I haven't done it justice, like it was just a gloss.

Heaven, for me, is one focused project - it's like a weird form of autism.

My reasoning, if one can call it that, was inflamed by the scatter shot passions of youth and a literary diet overly rich in the works of Nietzshe, Kerouac, and John Menlove Edwards.

I'm intrigued by fanatics - people who are seduced by the promise, or the illusion, of the absolute.

Military investigations are designed not to find anyone guilty.

Happiness [is] only real when shared

But some things are more important than being happy. Like being free to think for yourself.

When you forgive, you love. And when you love, God’s light shines upon you.

I don’t want to know what time it is. I don’t want to know what day it is or where I am. None of that matters.

I was stirred by the dark mystery of mortality. I couldn’t resist stealing up to the edge of doom and peering over the brink (…) That was a very different thing from wanting to die.

It's not always necessary to be strong, but to feel strong.

When you forgive, you love.

The revelation that he was merely human, and frightfully so, was beyond my power to forgive.

Unlike Muir and Thoreau, McCandless went into the wilderness not primarily to ponder nature or the world at large but, rather, to explore the inner country of his own soul.

Happiness means nothing to me. I just want to have meaning and purpose.

When an individual is raped in this country, more than 90 percent of the time the rapist gets away with the crime.

When you forgive, you love. And when you love, God's light shines on you..