G. H. L. Mallory Quotes

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.

The greatest danger in life is not to take the adventure.

- Why do you want to climb Mt. Everest, Sir? - Because it is there.

We don't live to eat and make money. We eat and make money to be able to enjoy life. That is what life means, and that is what life is for.

One must conquer, achieve, get to the top; one must know the end to be convinced that one can win the end - to know there's no dream that mustn't be dared. . .

For the stone from the top for geologists, the knowledge of the limits of endurance for the doctors, but above all for the spirit of adventure to keep alive the soul of man.

One comes to bless the absolute bareness, feeling that here is a pure beauty of form, a kind of ultimate harmony.

To struggle and to understand. Never the last without the first. That is the law.

We will stomp to the top with the wind in our teeth.

It is so tempting to return rudeness with rudeness!

The highest of the world's mountains, it seems, has to make but a single gesture of magnificence to be the lord of all, vast in unchallenged and isolated supremacy.

If you don't like potlucks, the solution to your problem is "don't go to potlucks," not "insist other people don't have them."

Half the charm of climbing mountains is born in visions preceding this experience - visions of what is mysterious, remote, inaccessible.

Why do we travel to remote locations? To prove our adventurous spirit or to tell stories about incredible things? We do it to be alone amongst friends and to find ourselves in a land without man.

Reconciliation is not possible when one party asks the other to obliterate all signs of their relationship.

My mind is in a state of constant rebellion. I believe that will always be so.

Bad dental hygiene can lead to respiratory infections and an increased risk for heart disease and strokes.

Depression cannot be overcome by listing a series of good things in one's life, any more than a broken foot can be healed by thinking about all the other bones you have that aren't broken.

There has to be some kind of personal hygiene bar that a person needs to clear in order for a relationship to be successful.

So many people choose silence after the immediate wake of a death out of fear of saying something out of turn or "bringing up bad memories" that bereaved people often feel forgotten.

Because it is there [famous explanation for wanting to climb Mount Everest].

You can care very much about someone without being capable of becoming their primary caregiver in the event of their parents' untimely death.

Because it's there. (when asked why he wanted to climb Everest)

Why climb Mount Everest? Because it's there.

Foolhardy to put your trust where it is easy to create falsehood.

Your imagination has much to do with your life.... It is for you to decide how you want your imagination to serve you.

LGBT youth face a much higher risk of violence and homelessness after being rejected by their family of origin.

It's one thing to be a high achiever; it's quite another to privately sneer at your girlfriend's friends after feigning friendliness because they have the "misfortune" to drive a bus for a living.

Asexuality does not make our lives any worse or any better, we just face a different set of challenges than most sexual people.

I'm pretty sure there's no sexuality that justifies constant low-level harassment.

Addicts sometimes have a penchant for becoming the center of attention at other people's celebrations.

Your imagination can focus on ugliness, distress and failure, or it can picture beauty, success, desired results. You decide how you want your imagination to server you.

Anyone who wants to pretend that your Huntington's disease is an invention is someone who does not have your best interests at heart.

I do not think it is selfish to want to donate a kidney "only" to family members.

For me as an actor, it's really fun to play someone who's not human.

If you get a dog, take care of your dog! You can just not have a dog if you don't feel like taking care of one, it's very easy to not have a dog.

If just one person touches you without your permission, stepping back and saying clearly, "Please don't touch me" should get them to stop.

Kids know when they're getting yelled at and mocked, I can assure you.

An adult woman should not be so possessive of her own birthday that she begrudges her friends the chance to get married on the same day.

Someone who has a disability is not necessarily in distress. You may be embarrassing and inconveniencing someone by butting in and making assumptions.

The hardest part about being ghosted is the fact that you can't deal with the ghoster directly. You just never hear from them again, and everything feels odd and incomplete.

Letting events end is not rude. Everything ends.

I'm of the belief that dating "potential" is almost always an exercise in frustration.

Not wanting to give everyone in your life one of your kidneys is not the same thing as hoping they die of kidney failure.

Many fathers go their entire lives without announcing how sexy their son's old girlfriends are.

Some people get dealt all the aces in life.

Nothing good comes of reading other people's emails.

Some people give gifts in order to bewilder, confuse, and manipulate their recipients.

There are alternatives to pregnancy if you want another child.

I don't know of any way to control the subject of one's dreams although I'm fairly certain there are more than a few types of psychoanalysis dedicated to the topic.