#Christopher McCandless Quotes

[thepersonalwords]

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

Christopher McCandless

[becauseitsfree]

[karmhantra]

[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

[makeuphall]

"Happiness is only real when shared." -Christopher McCandless

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[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

[tyllt]

Quotes (pt. 2)

Peace

I found a sliver of sun today and stood in it, squinty and content in its fleeting embrace. I never thought I'd miss you. - Josh Groban

With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy? - Oscar Wilde

Summer arrived in full force. Cicadas cried from the cherry trees and in the evenings a pleasant breeze blew briefly as dusk began to arrive earlier each day. - Sukegawa Durian

I sincerely wish for you every possible joy life could bring. - Bob Ross

I'm kind of in love with everything, that's just how I am. - Anonymous

"It's so beautiful here! I want to come back here someday!" It takes all of my persuasive power to try to convince her that she is already here. - Liz Gilbert

And on the last day, when all his work was done, he only just discovered the sun, on the last day. - Moby

This has been going on for so long already, this unfolding. Harry doesn't know how many more ways they can find to mean something to each other. - Anonymous

I thought the earth remembered me. She took me back so tenderly, arranging her dark skirts, her pockets full of lichen and seeds. - Mary Oliver

But in the end, stories are about one person saying to another: this is the way it feels to me. Can you understand what I'm saying? Does it feel this way to you? - Kazuo Ishiguro

I have nothing to gain from kissing her. But I am no longer looking to gain anything. - John Green

Make it simple, but significant. - Don Draper

Along the lake path - bird song implied. - Anonymous

There's a lot of beauty in ordinary things. Isn't that kind of the point? - Pam Beasley

You're writing lines about me; romantic poetry. - Halsey

I hope the exit is joyful and I hope never to return. - Frida Kahlo

Womb to tomb, sweetheart. - dropdeaddream

I believe in angels, something good in everything I see. - ABBA

Part of loving the winter is submitting to it. - Anonymous

And so I fall in love just a little, oh, a little bit. Every day with someone new. - Hozier

Needle-dark December smells. She walks with wonder everywhere. - Muriel Rukeyser

In March I'll be rested, caught up and human. - Sylvia Plath

What's the winter for? To remember love. - Theodore Roethke

We call everything on the ice "love". - Viktor Nikiforov

The only difference between a flower and a weed is judgement. - Wayne Dyer

The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers. - Matsuo Basho

We all have one foot in a fairytale, and the other in the abyss. - Paulo Coelho

Not to sound cosmic, but I've made plans for the next 3,000 years. Before, it was only three days at a time. - Prince

You have me. Until the last star in the galaxy dies, you have me. - Amie Kaufman

If we want peace, we have to be peace. Peace is a practice, not a hope. - Thich Nhat Hanh

Happiness only real when shared. - Christopher McCandless

A sunny day in the void. - Dave Filoni

And all I want to do is fly. - Eric Whitacre

I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream. - Vincent van Gogh

We don't really know where this goes, and I'm not sure we really care. - Bob Ross

I'm alive! I'm alive! I am so alive! - Aaron Tveit

After a time, you may find that having is not so pleasing a thing, after all, as wanting. It is not valid, but is often true. - Anonymous

Harry looked at the leaves gently dancing in the breeze, the way Kavika had taught him to look - observing details, things he thought he already knew. - Lettered

Make the decision everyday to be happy. - Anonymous

Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home. - J.K. Rowling

Dancing is for people who are free. - Jojo Rabbit

And so, our journey comes to an end. But yours continues on. Grab hold of your dreams and make them come true. For you are the key to unlocking your own magic. Now go. Let your dreams guide you. Reach out and find your Happily Ever After. - Anonymous

We take death to reach a star. - Vincent van Gogh

There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy. - Hamlet, Hamlet

I'll be good, I'll be good. And I'll love the world like I should. - Jaymes Young

I was born free, and that I might live in freedom I chose the solitude of the fields; in the trees of the mountains I find society, the clear waters of the brooks are my mirrors, and to the trees and waters I make known my thoughts and charms. I am a fire afar off, a sword laid aside. - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

'Denied the catharsis of punishment' is an underappreciated but hugely effective narrative consequence.

Just smell the grass! The dirt! Just like I dreamt they'd be! Just feel that summer breeze, the way it's calling me. For like the first time ever, I'm completely free! I could go running and racing, and dancing and chasing, and leaping and bounding, hair flying, heart pounding, and splashing and reeling, and finally feeling - that's when my life begins! - Rapunzel

From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them, and that is eternity. - Edvard Munch

[wepicy]

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

[anirregularperson]

Believe.. 🥀

[thepersonalwords]

Happiness is only real when shared.

Christopher McCandless

[thatonesentence]

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

[wandering-wolf]

“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