Dante Alighieri Quotes

When you stand at the bottom of the mountain and look up at the mountaintop, the path looks hard and stony, and the top is obscured by clouds. But when you reach the top and you look down, you realize that there are a thousand paths that could have brought you to that place.

The Nose is a beautiful route. The best thing is that, in one day, you get to climb so much. You climb and climb and climb the whole day.

Ray, what you got to do is go climb a mountain.

Who climbs the mountain does not always climb.The winding road slants downward many a time;Yet each descent is higher than the last.

What did he say?" Hazel asked. "With the cussing removed? He said he can get us to the top," Percy replied.

There are many trails up the mountain, but in time they all reach the top.

You must ascend a mountain to learn your relation to matter, and so to your own body, for it is at home there, though you are not.

Here's one problem with drifting: you can't drift your way to the top of the mountain.

Life is like a mountain: after climbing up one side and sliding down the other, put up the sled.

I saw a mountain. I wanted to climb it.

When you get to the summit and you push the watch, first you try to breath a little bit and get some oxygen in your lungs. When I saw this time I was like, 'Ah, that's not possible.' Yeah...that was a good moment.

A mountain you're plannin' on climbin' ain't the same as the one you ain't. It ain't so pretty.

The thing about mountains is that you have to keep on climbing them, and that it's always hard, but there's a view from top every time when you finally get there.

You're at the bottom of the mountain. May you climb up without suffering.

I want to solve a climbing problem in the mountains, not in the sporting goods store.

The mountains were there and so was I.

A few hours of mountain climbing make a blackguard and a saint two rather similar creatures.

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

It is because you have the typical American habit of seeing everything as a test. You see the mountain as your enemy and you set out to defeat it. So, naturally, the mountain fights back and it is stronger than you are. We do not see the mountain as our enemy to be conquered. The purpose of our climb is to become one with the mountain and so it lifts us up and carries us along.

Ah Japhy you taught me the final lesson of them all, you can't fall off a mountain.

I have climbed several higher mountains without guide or path, and have found, as might be expected, that it takes only more time and patience commonly than to travel the smoothest highway.

If the reason for climbing Mt. Everest is that it's hard to do, why does everyone go up the easy side?

Writing a novel in general is like trying to reach a mountain top you'll never quite reach - so you try again and maybe get a little closer.

I don't want to conquer you; I just want to climb you.