Into The Wild Quotes

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.

You can never be overdressed or overeducated.

Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.

A good friend will always stab you in the front.

Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.

I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?

Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.

Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

I am not young enough to know everything.

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

Hearts are made to be broken.

You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.

The very essence of romance is uncertainty.

Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.

I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.

With freedom, flowers, books, and the moon, who could not be perfectly happy?

I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

To define is to limit.

Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.

Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.

To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

I can resist anything except temptation.

A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.

Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.

If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.

Happiness [is] only real when shared

Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does, and that is his.

The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.

I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.

There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect. And it's these things I'd believe in, even if the whole world indulged in wild suspicions that she wasn't all she should be. I love her and it is the beginning of everything.

Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.

Who, being loved, is poor?

Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.

I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.

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

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.

Never marry at all, Dorian. Men marry because they are tired, women, because they are curious: both are disappointed.

I have nothing to declare except my genius.

Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success.

A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.

Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

No good deed goes unpunished.

After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.

The mind I love must have wild places.

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.

What of Art? -It is a malady. --Love? -An Illusion. --Religion? -The fashionable substitute for Belief. --You are a sceptic. -Never! Scepticism is the beginning of Faith. --What are you? -To define is to limit.

Some things are more precious because they don't last long.

You were once wild here. Don’t let them tame you.

Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.

Stories are wild creatures, the monster said. When you let them loose, who knows what havoc they might wreak?

Yet each man kills the thing he loves By each let this be heard Some do it with a bitter look Some with a flattering word The coward does it with a kiss The brave man with a sword

Why can't you place a blessing like that on us?" I asked. "It only works on wild animals." "So it would only affect Percy," Annabeth reasoned. "Hey!" I protested.

Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past you. And the part of you that knows it was wrong to imprison them in the first place rejoices, but still, the place where you live is that much more drab and empty for their departure.

The world is a stage and the play is badly cast.

I like men who have a future and women who have a past.

Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing.

To lose one parent, Mr. Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.

We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.

Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.

Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different.

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects.

Every woman is a rebel.

Do for yourself, for no one else will.

Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.

Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

Jane, be still; don't struggle so like a wild, frantic bird, that is rending its own plumage in its desperation." "I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being, with an independent will; which I now exert to leave you.

Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.

A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.

To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.

You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine. Meanwhile the world goes on. Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain are moving across the landscapes, over the prairies and the deep trees, the mountains and the rivers. Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air, are heading home again. Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting – over and over announcing your place in the family of things.

I'm about to make a wild, extreme and severe relationship rule: the word busy is a load of crap and is most often used by assholes. The word "busy" is the relationship Weapon of Mass Destruction. It seems like a good excuse, but in fact in every silo you uncover, all you're going to find is a man who didn't care enough to call. Remember men are never to busy to get what they want.

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. 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 conservation, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure. 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. If you want to get more out of life, 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. But once you become accustomed to such a life you will see its full meaning and its incredible beauty.

It doesn't interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for, and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart's longing. It doesn't interest me how old you are. I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love, for your dream, for the adventure of being alive. It doesn't interest me what planets are squaring your moon. I want to know if you have touched the center of your own sorrow, if you have been opened by life's betrayals or have become shriveled and closed from fear of further pain!I want to know if you can sit with pain, mine or your own, without moving to hide it or fade it, or fix it. I want to know if you can be with joy, mine or your own, if you can dance with wildness and let the ecstasy fill you to the tips of your fingers and toes without cautioning us to be careful, to be realistic, to remember the limitations of being human. It doesn't interest me if the story you are telling me is true. I want to know if you can disappoint another to be true to yourself; if you can bear the accusation of betrayal and not betray your own soul; if you can be faithlessand therefore trustworthy. I want to know if you can see beauty even when it's not pretty, every day,and if you can source your own life from its presence. I want to know if you can live with failure, yours and mine, and still stand on the edge of the lake and shout to the silver of the full moon, “Yes!” It doesn't interest me to know where you live or how much money you have. I want to know if you can get up, after the night of grief and despair, weary and bruised to the bone, and do what needs to be done to feed the children. It doesn't interest me who you know or how you came to be here. I want to know if you will stand in the center of the fire with me and not shrink back. It doesn't interest me where or what or with whom you have studied. I want to know what sustains you, from the inside, when all else falls away. I want to know if you can be alone with yourself and if you truly like the company you keep in the empty moments.