KeenBrain
KeenBrain
KeenBrain

Jon Krakauer Quotes


Share this page on

Quotes by Jon Krakauer

Showing 1-10 of 41 Quotes by Jon Krakauer

The way to Everest is not a Yellow Brick Road.

~Jon Krakauer

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


There's something about being afraid, about being small, about enforced humility that draws me to climbing.

~Jon Krakauer

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


When I was 23, I went to Alaska by myself into the glaciers of the coast range and climbed a mountain by myself. It was incredibly reckless, incredibly stupid. But I was lucky. And I survived, and I came back to tell my story.

~Jon Krakauer

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I love being outdoors, being in the mountains and the desert, and my wife enjoys that too. That's one of the things that sustain our relationship.

~Jon Krakauer

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


You get a compound fracture in Colorado where I live, and you can probably be in a hospital within a matter of hours, certainly within a day.

~Jon Krakauer

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Let's not mince words: Everest doesn't attract a whole lot of well-balanced folks. The self-selection process tends to weed out the cautious and the sensible in favor of those who are single-minded and incredibly driven. Which is a big reason the mountain is so dangerous.

~Jon Krakauer

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


The way Everest is guided is very different from the way other mountains are guided, and it flies in the face of values I hold dear: self-reliance, taking responsibility for what you do, making your own decisions, trusting your judgment - the kind of judgment that comes only through paying your dues, through experience.

~Jon Krakauer

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Climbing Mount Everest was the biggest mistake I've ever made in my life. I wish I'd never gone. I suffered for years of PTSD and still suffer from what happened. I'm glad I wrote a book about it. But, you know, if I could go back and relive my life, I would never have climbed Everest.

~Jon Krakauer

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Everest is not real climbing. It's rich people climbing. It's a trophy on the wall, and they're done... When I say I wish I'd never gone, I really mean that.

~Jon Krakauer

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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.

~Jon Krakauer

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: April 12th, 1954

Links

Find Jon Krakauer on Amazon

Related Authors

Ray Bradbury
Dale Carnegie
Robert A. Heinlein
Napoleon Hill
Elbert Hubbard
H. L. Mencken
Dr. Seuss
William Arthur Ward

Popular Authors

Thomas Aquinas Jane Austen Anne Frank Steve Harvey Robert Kennedy Abraham Maslow Keanu Reeves Tiger Woods

Change your beliefs...change your life.

Get a related quote or insight every day.

(it's 100% free)

Follow Us On

Today's Birthdays

1694 - Voltaire

1768 - Friedrich Schleiermacher

1787 - Bryan Procter

1863 - Arthur Quiller-Couch

1870 - Alexander Berkman

1886 - Harold Nicolson

1889 - Hugh Kingsmill

1898 - Rene Magritte

1904 - Coleman Hawkins

1907 - Jim Bishop

Birthdays on November 21st
All Birthdays

Popular Topics

Best Business Chance Dating Learning Memorial Day Success Veterans Day