Ueli Steck Quotes

There is an indescribable something that ties us to life. For this purpose, it is not necessary that we should be happy. Though our life be almost without enjoyment, we do not consent to part with it.

Once you've stared death in the face, every day is a good day.

Life comes forth for no other reason than to be and make more life. It will fight and crawl and do anything in its power to live, and once alive, it will stand against all to remain alive. Its existence is its own argument.

Where is it I've read that someone condemned to death says or thinks, an hour before his death, that if he had to live on some high rock, on such a narrow ledge that he'd only room to stand, and the ocean, everlasting darkness, everlasting solitude, everlasting tempest around him, if he had to remain standing on a square yard of space all his life, a thousand years, eternity, it were better to live so than to die at once. Only to live, to live and live! Life, whatever it may be!

There's really nothing quite like someone's wanting you dead to make you want to go on living.

I think the more we embrace the culture of life and respect life, the better that we do.

When you've been in life-threatening situations, you become aware that life is not for ever.

I think any cancer patient, if you dig not too deeply, they want to live.

When I did 'Bumble-ardy,' I was so intensely aware of death. Eugene, my friend and partner, was dying here in the house when I did 'Bumble-ardy'. I did 'Bumble-ardy' to save myself. I did not want to die with him. I wanted to live, as any human being does.

I think mortality makes you live a fuller existence. When I was a kid I was scared of death, and maybe that's what made me desperate to get the most out of life.

If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.

I'm alive and I want to keep living.

I am not young but I feel young. The day I feel old, I will go to bed and stay there. J'aime la vie! I feel that to live is a wonderful thing.

When your life is threatened, whether it's by human beings or by disease or whatever, you come to appreciate life.

Life is the most important. Always.

I don't want to die. Please don't let me die.

I thought, I'm going to die. And, thinking that, I was determined to live.

Those who fear death most are those who enjoy life least.

I don't want to die. Damn death. Long live life.

It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live.

It is notorious that the desire to live increases as life itself shortens.

... there is a skeleton (or death) that flees terrified in the face of my will to live.

There's more to life than just surviving . . . but . . . sometimes just surviving is all you get

One wants to live, of course, indeed one only stays alive by virtue of the fear of death.

The celebration of death is not a good thing. Fetishizing death isn't a good thing. You should be celebrating life and enjoying it and all that.