Jon Krakauer Quotes

As we grow older I always think, why didn't I do more when I was young, why didn't I risk more?

There's not day that goes by that I don't remember why I'm in the situation I'm in.

If I had my life to live over, I would want to be a man.

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.

As far as 'Trainspotting' changing my life, I think I've said before I probably squandered a few opportunities. But I'm fine with that because everything's fine.

If I could send a message back to my younger self, it would be: Do not work for the State Department at all.

I have survivor's remorse.

You realize as an athlete that there is a bit of a clock, and you don't want to look back on a career and say, 'I wish I had done this a bit differently.'

I started the whole 'Into Thin Air' thing - nothing I'm proud of.

When I started talking to my therapist, we hit the source of my PTSD and the trauma that came from the things that occurred when I was younger - issues with my father and how that may have affected me.

I'm getting older, turning 40 this year. I had a period where I thought each expedition had to be something harder, something faster. But you can't go on like that, or you're going to die.

I have done a lot of crazy things in my life, and I do not regret anything.

For us the mountains had been a natural field of activity where, playing on the frontiers of life and death, we had found the freedom for which we were blindly groping and which was as necessary to us as bread.

It is very different hosting and judging a show like 'Love School'; it was unlike acting in a movie or series or being part of a reality show. But I keep telling myself that I have just one life, and I have to make the most of it.

I always wanted to try Mt. Everest since I was a kid. I never thought I would be able to do anything like that.

As you write about your life, there's a lot of things that you think about that you regret. It's interesting, because one of the things I regret the most is spending so much time focused on wrestling as opposed to focusing on my family.

I'm almost positive I have some type of PTSD. Almost a decade of my life was consumed by the prison system.

You can, maybe, do something like Annapurna once in a lifetime. Then don't try to do it again.

I was young at Inter and did things I wouldn't do again.

Everyone wants to relive their life once again, but if I had the chance, I would do it in the exact same fashion.

I'd rather live my life and do what I love and experience it. If I have some issues when I'm older, I mean, that's the cost of living a fantastic life.

If I had my whole life to live over again, I don't think I'd have the strength.

One of the most difficult things to think about in life is one’s regrets. Something will happen to you, and you will do the wrong thing, and for years afterward you will wish you had done something different.

I sit here drunk now. I am a series of small victories and large defeats and I am as amazed as any other that I have gotten from there to here without committing murder or being murdered; without having ended up in the madhouse. as I drink alone again tonight my soul despite all the past agony thanks all the gods who were not there for me then.

Having regrets is the only sign that you’ve done anything interesting with your life.