Chris McCandless Quotes

The joy in 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.

Happiness is only real when shared.

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure.

The freedom and simple beauty is too good to pass up.

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.

It is important in life not to be strong, but to feel strong.

I’m going to paraphrase Thoreau here… rather than love, than money, than faith, than fame, than fairness… give me truth.

Don’t settle down and sit in one place. Move around, be nomadic, make each day a new horizon.

I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence.

The sea’s only gifts are harsh blows, and occasionally the chance to feel strong. Now I don’t know much about the sea, but I do know that that’s the way it is here. And I also know how important it is in life not necessarily to be strong but to feel strong, to measure yourself at least once.

The core of a man’s spirit comes from new experiences.

I’m going to reinvent myself, Chris McCandless.”

Two years he walks the earth. No phone, no pool, no pets, no cigarettes. Ultimate freedom. An extremist. An aesthetic voyager whose home is the road.

Chris McCandless Quotes part 2

So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality, nothing is more dangerous to the adventurous spirit.

Everything is new, and everything is beautiful.

Rather than love, than money, than faith, than fame, than fairness, give me truth.

The climactic battle to kill the false being within and victoriously conclude the spiritual revolution.

You are wrong if you think that the joy of life comes principally from human relationships. God’s place is all around us, it is in everything and in anything we can experience.

Some readers admired the boy [McCandless] immensely for his courage and noble ideals; other fulminated that he was a reckless idiot, a wacko, a narcissist who perished out of arrogance and stupidity—and was undeserving of the considerable media attention he received.

The freedom and simple beauty is too good to pass up.

Don’t hesitate, don’t worry, and don’t succumb to fear.

No longer to be poisoned by civilization he flees, and walks alone upon the land to become lost in the wild.

The danger is that you’ll become like that freak who always smiles.

I’m sorry it didn’t work out for you, but don’t blame me.

I’d like to repeat the advice that I gave you before, in that I think you really should make a radical change in your lifestyle and begin to boldly do things which you may previously never have thought of doing, or been too hesitant to attempt.

You don’t need human relationships to be happy, God has placed it all around us.

I’m mourning for my own soul.

Two years he walks the earth. No phone, no pool, no pets, no cigarettes. Ultimate freedom. An extremist. An aesthetic voyager whose home is the road.

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, there is a rapture on the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.

So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality, nothing is more dangerous to the adventurous spirit.

Circumstance has no value. It is how one relates to a situation and what he or she becomes in the experience of it that has value.

I think careers are a 20th-century invention and I don’t want one.

I’m going to paraphrase Thoreau here… rather than love, than money, than faith, than fame, than fairness… give me truth.

I need your help. I am injured, near death, and too weak to hike out of here. I am all alone. This is no joke. In the name of God, please remain to save me. I am out collecting berries close by and shall return this evening. Thank you, -Chris McCandless

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.

If you want something in life, reach out and grab it.

I’m going to paraphrase Thoreau here… rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

Don’t let anything interfere with that.

It is important to be strong and feel strong.

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.

It is the experiences, the memories, the great triumphant joy of living to the fullest extent in which real meaning is found.

No phone, no pool, no pets, no cigarettes, ultimate freedom… No longer to be poisoned by civilization, he flees and walks alone upon the land to become lost in the wild.

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.

When a happy occasion arises, don’t miss it—just have a good time.

No phone. No pool. No pets. No cigarettes. Ultimate freedom. An extremist. An aesthetic voyager whose home is the road.

If you want to get more out of life, Ron, you must lose your inclination for monotonous security and adopt a helter-skelter style of life that will at first appear to you to be crazy.

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

The sea’s only gifts are harsh blows, and occasionally the chance to feel strong. Now I don’t know much about the sea, but I do know that that’s the way it is here. And I also know how important it is in life not necessarily to be strong but to feel strong, to measure yourself at least once.

Growth and comfort do not coexist.