Frases de Jon Krakauer página 2

“Quería movimiento, no una existencia sosegada. Quería emoción y peligro, así como la oportunidad de sacrificarme por amor. Me sentía henchido de tanta energía que no podía canalizarla a través de la vida tranquila que llevábamos. León”

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“Por fin se había liberado de las ataduras, emancipado del mundo opresivo formado por sus padres y los que eran iguales que ellos, un mundo hecho de abstracciones, seguridad y bienestar material, un mundo en el que sentía como una dolorosa amputación la ausencia del latir puro y salvaje de la existencia. Al”

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“Podía intentar explicar que se regía por un código de orden superior; argumentar que, como moderno seguidor de las ideas de Henry David Thoreau, había adoptado como evangelio el ensayo titulado Sobre el deber de la desobediencia civil y consideraba que no someterse a unas leyes opresivas e injustas era una obligación moral.”

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“La libertad y la simple belleza de la vida son algo demasiado valioso como para desperdiciarlo.”

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“«la felicidad sólo es real cuando es compartida.» Es”

“The trip was to be an odyssey in the fullest sense of the word, an epic journey that would change everything.”

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Jon Krakauer: Frases en inglés

“At long last he was unencumbered, emancipated from the stifling world of his parents and peers, a world of abstraction and security and material excess, a world in which he felt grievously cut off from the raw throb of existence.”

Jon Krakauer libro Hacia rutas salvajes

Fuente: Into the Wild

“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.”

Jon Krakauer libro Hacia rutas salvajes

Fuente: Into the Wild

“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.”

Jon Krakauer libro Hacia rutas salvajes

Fuente: Into the Wild

“I think maybe part of what got him into trouble was that he did too much thinking. Sometimes he tried too hard to make sense of the world, to figure out why people were bad to each other so often.”

Jon Krakauer libro Hacia rutas salvajes

Fuente: Into the Wild

“I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was wrong with my life. In the end, of course, it changed almost nothing. But I came to appreciate that mountains make poor receptacles for dreams.”

Jon Krakauer libro Hacia rutas salvajes

Fuente: Into the Wild

“Getting to the top of any given mountain was considered much less important than how one got there: prestige was earned by tackling the most unforgiving routes with minimal equipment, in the boldest style imaginable.”

Jon Krakauer libro Hacia rutas salvajes

Fuente: Into the Wild

“Common sense is no match for the voice of God.”

Fuente: Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster

“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.”

Fuente: Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith

“I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love. I felt in myself a superabundance of energy which found no outlet in our quiet life.”

“It was titillating to brush up against the enigma of mortality, to steal a glimpse across its forbidden frontier. Climbing was a magnificient activity, I firmly believed, not in spite of the inherent perils, but precisely because of them.”

Jon Krakauer libro Hacia rutas salvajes

Fuente: Into the Wild

“Alaska has long been a magnet for dreamers and misfits, people who think the unsullied enormity of the Last Frontier will patch all the holes in their loves. The bush is an unforgiving place, however, that care nothing for hope or longing.”

Fuente: Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster

“Most climbers aren't in fact deranged, they're just infected with a particularly virulent strain of the Human Condition.”

Jon Krakauer libro Hacia rutas salvajes

Fuente: Into the Wild

“Children can be harsh judges when it comes to their parents, disinclined to grant clemency.”

Jon Krakauer libro Eiger Dreams: Ventures Among Men and Mountains

Fuente: Eiger Dreams: Ventures Among Men and Mountains

“Everest has always been a magnet for kooks, publicity seekers, hopeless romantics and others with a shaky hold on reality.”

Jon Krakauer libro Hacia rutas salvajes

Fuente: Into the Wild

“Mr. Franz, I think careers are a 20th Century invention and I don't want one. You don’t need to worry about me; I have a college education. I’m not destitute. I'm living like this by choice.”

Fuente: Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster

“As a means of motivating people to be cruel or inhumane-as a means of inciting evil, to borrow the vocabulary of the devout-there may be no more potent force than religion.”

Jon Krakauer libro Hacia rutas salvajes

Fuente: Into the Wild

“People don't get it. He didn't even have a fuckin' map; what kind of idiot? THAT was the point. There's no blank spots on the map anymore, anywhere on earth. If you want a blank spot on the map, you gotta leave the map behind.”

Fuente: Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith

“With enough determination, any bloody idiot can get up this hill,” Hall observed. “The trick is to get back down alive.”

“But at times I wondered if I had not come a long way only to find that what I really sought was something I had left behind.”

Jon Krakauer libro Into Thin Air

Fuente: Into Thin Air

“Mountains make poor receptacles for dreams.”

Jon Krakauer libro Into Thin Air

Fuente: Into Thin Air

“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…”

“The desert sharpened the sweet ache of his longing, amplified it, gave shape to it in sere geology and clean slant of light.”

Jon Krakauer libro Hacia rutas salvajes

Fuente: Into the Wild

“Now what is history? It is the centuries of systematic explorations of the riddle of death, with a view to overcoming death. That’s why people discover mathematical infinity and electromagnetic waves, that’s why they write symphonies..”

Jon Krakauer libro Hacia rutas salvajes

Fuente: Into the Wild