The Beckoning Silence Quotes

“There is something about mountains that moves the soul. They arouse a powerful sense of spiritual awareness and a notion of our own transient and fragile mortality and our insignificant place in the universe. They have about them an ethereal, evocative addiction that I find impossible to resist. They are an infuriating and fascinating contradiction. Climbing rarely makes sense but nearly always feels right.”
― Joe Simpson, The Beckoning Silence

“We live within such a tiny capsule of time yet it seems vast until death rudely makes it so insignificant.”
― Joe Simpson, The Beckoning Silence

“Youth is not a time of life … it is a state of mind. It is not a matter of ripe cheeks, red lips and supple knees … it is a temper of the will, a quality of the imagination, a vigour of the emotions … it is a freshness of the deep springs of life.’ Unknown.”
― Joe Simpson, The Beckoning Silence