I leave you 50 phrases from Into the Wild or Towards wild routes, said by the protagonist Christopher McCandles or by the narrator. It is a film adapted from the book with the same name written by Jon Krakauer in 1996. It tells the life of a young graduate - Chris McCandless-, who embarks on an adventure in Alaska testing his will and spirit.
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- What if I was smiling and running into your arms? Would you then see what I see now? (Last words).
-Nature is a ruthless place, which does not care about the hopes and desires of travelers
-If we admit that human life can be governed by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed.
-You don't need human relationships to be happy, God has put it around us.
-It should not be denied that being free has always excited us. It is associated in our minds with escape from history and oppression and law and annoying obligations. Absolute freedom. And the road has always led west.
-Children can be tough judges when it comes to their parents, unwilling to grant clemency.
- When you want something in life, you just have to reach out and grab it.
- Freedom always fascinates us, we associate it in the mind with the escape from obligations, law and oppression.
- Without already being poisoned by civilization, he flees and walks alone on earth, to lose himself in the wild.
-Now I can walk in nature.
-Some people feel they don't deserve love. They walk calmly in empty spaces, trying to cover the gaps of the past.
-When you forgive, you love. And when you love, the light of God shines on you.
-I read somewhere that the important thing in life is not necessarily to be strong, but to feel strong… to measure your ability, at least once.
-I'm going to paraphrase Thoreau here… instead of love, money, faith, fame, justice… give me truth.
-Mr. Franz, I think racing is a 20th century invention and I don't want any.
-The center of the spirit of man comes from new experiences.
-You are wrong if you think that joy emanates solely or mainly from human relationships. God has put it around us. It is in everything and anything that we can experience it. We just have to have the courage to turn against our usual lifestyle and commit to an unconventional life.
-It is true that I miss intelligent company, but there are so few with whom I can share the things that mean so much to me that I have learned to contain myself. It is enough to be surrounded by beauty.
-That's what was great about him. He tried. Not many do.
-He was unheard, happy, and close to the wild heart of life. He was alone, and young and mischievous, alone amid the wasted wild air and brackish water.
-I understood what he was doing, that he had spent four years performing the absurd and tedious duty of graduating from university and now he was emancipated from that world of abstraction, false security, parents, and material excesses.
-Nothing is more damaging to a man's adventurous spirit than a secure future. The basic core of man's spirit is his passion for adventure.
-The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and therefore, there is no greater joy than an endless changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.
-They are the experiences, the memories, the magnificent triumphant joy of living in the fullest extent in which the real meaning is found. God it is wonderful to be alive! Thank you. Thank you.
-According to the moral absolutism that characterizes McCandless's beliefs, a challenge in which a successful result is assured is not a challenge at all.
-The trip was an odyssey in the broadest sense of the word, an epic trip that was going to change everything.
-At last he was free of burdens, emancipated from the suffocating world of his parents and companions, a world of abstraction and security and material excesses, a world in which he felt strongly disconnected from the pure heartbeat of existence.
-I don't want to know what time it is. I don't want to know what day it is or where I am. None of that matters.
-Many people live in unhappy circumstances and yet they will not take the initiative to change their situation, because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which seem to bring about peace of mind.
-I wanted movement, not a quiet existence. I wanted excitement and danger, as well as the opportunity to sacrifice myself for love. I was filled with so much energy that I couldn't channel it through the quiet life we led.
-Alaska has long been a magnet for dreamers and renegades, people who think that the unblemished enormity of the last frontier will mend all the holes in their loves. The bush is a ruthless place, really, it does not care neither hope nor longing.
-Children can be tough judges when it comes to their parents, unwilling to grant clemency.
-My reasoning, if it can be called that, is inflamed by the passions of youth and a literary diet too rich in the works of Nietzsche, Kerouac and John Menlove Edwards…
-The desert sharpened the sweet pain of his longing, amplified it, shaped it in the withered geology and in the clean slant of the light.
-Now, what is the story? They are centuries of systematic explorations on the enigma of death, with a view to overcoming death. That is why people discover mathematical infinity and electromagnetic waves, that is why they write symphonies.
- Freedom and simple beauty are too good to pass up.
-It was the magisterial and incommunicable wisdom of eternity laughing at the futility and effort of life.
-All true meaning resides in the personal relationship with a phenomenon, what it means to you.
-The crying… the betrayal of a feeling of loss so enormous and irreparable that the mind refuses to take its measure.
-I was right in saying that the only certain happiness in life is living for others…
-The pursuit of knowledge, he argued, was a worthy goal in its own right and did not need external validation.
-It is a strong and sharp pain that I feel every day. It's really hard. Some days are better than others, but it's going to be tough every day for the rest of my life.
-Shaken by the passions and longings of youth.
-In these moments something similar to happiness really arises in the chest, but it is not the type of emotion you want to support.
-I could try to explain that it was governed by a higher order code; argue that, as a modern follower of the ideas of Henry David Thoreau, he had adopted as gospel the essay entitled On the Duty of Civil Disobedience and considered that not to submit to oppressive and unjust laws was a moral obligation.
- In Memory of Christopher Johnson McCandless / February 12, 1968 - August 18, 1992.
Two weeks after Chris's death, moose hunters discovered his body on the bus.
On September 19, 1992, Carine McCandless flew her brother's ashes from Alaska to the East Coast.
The filmmakers thank Jon Krakauer for his guidance and thank Walt, Billie, Carine, and the entire McCandless family for their courageous support in the making of this film.
(last words of the movie).