But some things are more important than being happy. Like b… - Jon Krakauer

" "
But some things are more important than being happy. Like being free to think for yourself.

Jon Krakauer

This quote has a book source. Sign up to see titles and page references

free-to-think-for-yourself happy think-for-yourself

English

Collect this quote

About Jon Krakauer

Jon Krakauer (born April 12, 1954) is an American journalist, author of non-fiction books, and mountaineer. In 1999 he received an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Although he is perhaps best known as an "adventure writer," Krakauer has in fact written about a wide range of subjects since very early in his career.

Biography information from Wikiquote

All quotes from Jon Krakauer Similar Quotes by other Originators

Originators like Jon Krakauer:

Saul Bellow Hermann Hesse Norman Mailer John Steinbeck E. M. Forster

Additional quotes by Jon Krakauer

What distinguishes gurus from more orthodox teachers is not their manic-depressive mood swings, not their thought disorders, not their delusional beliefs, not their hallucinatory visions, not their mystical states of ecstasy: it is their narcissism.* ANTHONY STORR, FEET OF CLAY

...books possess an ounce-of-weight to minute-of-entertainment ratio that compares quite favorably to intoxicants.

If you get killed,” she argued with a mix of despair and anger, “it’s not just you who’ll pay the price. I’ll have to pay, too, you know, for the rest of my life. Doesn’t that matter to you?

But some things are more important than being happy. Like being free to think for yourself. - Jon Krakauer

About Jon Krakauer

Advanced Search Filters

Additional quotes by Jon Krakauer

Works in ChatGPT, Claude, or Any AI