There’s a lot of great poems in here.

Christopher McCandless

Other Into the Wild (film) Quotes

Is there anybody here? - View Quote Details on Is there anybody here?
I see them standing at the formal gates of their colleges. I see my father strolling out under the ochre sandstone atch, the red tiles glinting like bent plates of blood behind his head. I see my mother with a few light books at her hip, standing at the pillar made of tiny bricks with the wrought-iron gates still open behind her, its sword-tips black in the May air. They are about to graduate. They are about to get married. They are kids. They are dumb. All they know is they are innocent, they would never hurt anybody. I want to go up to them and say “Stop, don’t do it. She’s the wrong woman, he’s the wrong man. You are going to do things you cannot imagine you would ever do. You are going to do bad things to children. You are going to suffer in ways you never heard of. You are going to want to die.” I want to go up to them there in the late May sunlight and say it. But I don’t do it. I want to live. I take them up like the male and female paper dolls, and bang them together at the hips like chips of flint, as if to strike sparks from them. I say, “Do what you are going to do and I will tell about it.” - View Quote Details on I see them standing at the formal gates of their…
Two years he walks the earth. No phone, no pool, no pets, no cigarettes. Ultimate freedom. An extremist. An aesthetic voyager whose home is the road. So now, after two rambling years comes the final and greatest adventure. The climactic battle to kill the false being within and victoriously conclude the spiritual revolution. No longer to be poisoned by civilization, he flees, and walks alone upon the land to become lost in the wild. -Alexander Supertramp, May 1992. - View Quote Details on Two years he walks the earth. No phone, no pool,…
I’ve only got one plan, Rainey. - View Quote Details on I’ve only got one plan, Rainey.
I have lived through much, and now I think I have found what is needed for happiness. A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them. And work which one hopes may be of some use. Then rest, nature, books, music, love for one’s neighbor. Such is my idea of happiness. And then, on top of all that, you for a mate, and children perhaps. What more can the heart of a man desire? - View Quote Details on I have lived through much, and now I think I…
If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, the possibility of life is destroyed. - View Quote Details on If we admit that human life can be ruled by…
The sea’s only gifts are harsh blows, and, occasionally, the chance to feel strong. Now, I don’t know much about the sea, but I do know that that’s the way it is here. And I also know how important it is in life not necessarily to be strong, but to feel strong, to measure yourself at least once, to find yourself at least once in the most ancient of human conditions, facing the blind, deaf stone alone with nothing to help you but your hands and your own head. - View Quote Details on The sea’s only gifts are harsh blows, and, occasionally, the…
All is not well on the hippie front. - View Quote Details on All is not well on the hippie front.
Hey, listen, old man. Now, don’t psychoanalyze me, all right? Shut up. I’m taking you out to where we’re going.” “Where you going?” “I told you. We’re going nowhere! - View Quote Details on Hey, listen, old man. Now, don’t psychoanalyze me, all right?…
I’m not Superman, I’m supertramp. [looks at apple] You’re Superapple. You’re so tasty. You’re so organic, so natural. You’re the apple of my eye. - View Quote Details on I’m not Superman, I’m supertramp. [looks at apple] You’re Superapple…