#Christopher McCandless Quotes

[becauseitsfree]

[peaceandnature]

Said about Christopher McCandless:

The hardest quote ever.

[juliahmessias]

“O que queremos na vida é às vezes muito diferente do que precisamos.”

“Não sei o que quero fazer com minha vida, mas sei que quero ver o mundo antes de me estabelecer em algum lugar.”

[tinyshe]

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1. “Attitude is the difference between an ordeal and an adventure” - Bob Bitchin

2. “Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go.” - T.S Eliot

3. “I do not want to get to the end of my life and find that I just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.” - Diane Ackerman

4. “If happiness is the goal – and it should be, then adventures should be top priority.” - Richard Branson

5. “Always remember, it’s simply not an adventure worth telling if there aren’t any dragons.” - Sarah Ban Breathnach

6. “Adventure isn’t hanging on a rope off the side of a mountain. Adventure is an attitude that we must apply to the day to day obstacles in life.”- John Amatt

7. “Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.” - Ambrose Redmoon

8. The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure. - Christopher McCandless

9. One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure. - William Feather

10. It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves. - Andre Gide

11. To me, adventure has always been to me the connections and bounds you create with people when you're there. And you can have that anywhere. - Bear Grylls

12. It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

13. Love is an adventure and a conquest. It survives and develops, like the universe itself, only by perpetual discovery. - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

14. It is like a voyage of discovery into unknown lands, seeking not for new territory but for new knowledge. It should appeal to those with a good sense of adventure. - Frederick Sanger

15. Adventure should be 80 percent 'I think this is manageable,' but it's good to have that last 20 percent where you're right outside your comfort zone. Still safe, but outside your comfort zone. - Bear Grylls

16. An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered. - Gilbert K. Chesterton

17. A traveler is really not someone who crosses ground so much as someone who is always hungry for the next challenge and adventure. - Pico Iyer

18. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered. - Gilbert K. Chesterton

19. There's a call to adventure. It's something in the inner psyche of humanity, particularly males. - Gary Gygax

20. I'm sure, to many people, my life is not that exciting, but to me every day is an adventure. - Angela Kinsey

21. When the new becomes commonplace, people become accustomed to it. That's a tribute to our sense of adventure. - John Glenn

22. “Adventure is worthwhile.” – Aristotle

23. “Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don’t be sorry.” – Jack Kerouac

24. Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain; and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer your approach to this certainty. - Adam Smith

25. What we get from this adventure is just sheer joy. And joy is, after all, the end of life. We do not live to eat and make money. -George Leigh Mallory

[augustwalker01]

Existential Crisis , what a topic ...can write for ages on it .

this often emerges from the quiet spaces between life's everyday moments, when the noise of routine cease to exist, and one is left alone with the enormity of existence. It is in this silence that the questions arise, pressing and unrelenting like What is the meaning of life? Why am I here? Does anything I do truly matter?

The crisis is not simply about life's hardships or moments of doubt :it’s a profound confrontation with the very nature of being. To be alive is, in a sense, to be constantly surrounded by mystery: the mystery of our origins, our purpose, and our ultimate fate. For many, these questions lie dormant beneath the surface, overshadowed by the demands of daily life. But for others, the surface cracks, and the questions rise to the forefront, impossible to ignore.

For the person in the grip of such a crisis, this sense of insignificance can be suffocating. The structures that once provided stability religion, societal norms, personal goals they all begin to feel like fragile .The comforting stories we tell ourselves about success, happiness, and legacy may crumble, leaving behind only raw, unfiltered reality.

What makes an existential crisis particularly challenging is that it doesn’t offer easy solutions. The search for meaning is not one that can be resolved with a simple answer or a change in circumstance. In fact, part of the anguish lies in the understanding that there may not be a definitive answer at all. We are, as existentialist thinkers have long suggested, creatures thrown into a world without inherent meaning, tasked with creating our own in a universe that offers none.

This confrontation with meaninglessness can lead to despair, but it can also open the door to freedom. If life has no preordained meaning, then we are free to define it for ourselves. This idea can be terrifying but also empowering. Without a fixed purpose, we have the opportunity to shape our own paths, to live authentically in accordance with our values rather than those imposed by external forces.

Christopher McCandless, the MC of Into the Wild faced a similar existential reckoning, one that ultimately drove him to abandon the structures of society in search of deeper meaning. Disillusioned with the materialism and artificial constructs of modern life, he sought freedom in the wilderness, hoping to find purity in nature that civilization could never offer. His journey was a rejection of the superficial and a desperate attempt to find truth in isolation. But McCandless, too, fell victim to the crushing weight of meaninglessness. In the end, even the vast Alaskan wilderness couldn’t provide the answers he sought. His final days were marked by profound loneliness and regret, as he realized its true meaning.

Perhaps then, the existential crisis is not an awakening but a descent a slow, suffocating realization that the search for meaning may be futile. It’s the heavy acknowledgment that the universe remains indifferent to our existence, that our efforts to create purpose are like building castles in sand, destined to be washed away by time. In this view, life is not a blank canvas full of possibility but a cruel game where the rules are never explained, and the reward is elusive, if it exists at all. The crisis isn’t a phase; it’s a haunting, a constant companion that casts a shadow over every moment, quoting the ONLY truth: none of this matters.

[cuteenglishquotes]

Tramping is too easy with all this money. My days were more exciting when I was penniless and had to forage around for my next meal... I've decided that I'm going to live this life for some time to come. The freedom and simple beauty of it is just too good to pass up. Christopher McCandless

[thepersonalwords]

Just get out and do it. You will be very, very glad that you did.

Christopher McCandless

[wepicy]

Happiness Quote By Christopher McCandless “Happiness only real when shared.” - Christopher McCandless

[anirregularperson]

Believe.. 🥀

[thatonesentence]

“Happiness is only real when shared. ” -Christopher McCandless.

[sianiquotes]

"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."

— Christopher McCandless

[lonesurvivor95]

Datti da fare e prendila.

Into the wild

[hardcoretillidie]

Rather than love,

than money,

than faith,

than fame,

than fairness...

give me truth.

[abismo-sideral]

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.

Christopher McCandless

[thepersonalwords]

Happiness is only real when shared.

Christopher McCandless