50 Into the Wild Quotes to Inspire You

“Into the Wild” is a non-fiction book written by Jon Krakauer in 1996 about the life of an American hiker Christopher McCandless. It is an expansion of a 9,000-word article by Krakauer on Chris McCandless titled “Death of an Innocent”, which appeared in the January 1993 issue of Outside.

The story surrounds Christopher McCandles shunning a conventional life after his college graduation and choosing to seek enlightenment in the wild. He believed the travel will test his ability to live without any comforts; it was a quest of a young man in search of peace and happiness. Sadly, McCandles ended up dying in the Alaskan wilderness.

The book was adapted into a movie with the same name -“Into the Wild” in 2007, directed by Sean Penn and starring Emile Hirsch as McCandless. This movie resonates with every person who has struggled to find a place to ‘fit into.’

Here are some of the best “Into the Wild” quotes from the book and movie that showcase the life of American hiker Christopher McCandless.

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1. “Happiness is only real when shared.” ~ Christopher McCandless, “Into The Wild”

2. “People just need to change the way they look at things.” ~ Christopher McCandless, “Into The Wild”

3. “When you want something in life you just gotta reach out and grab it.” ~ Christopher McCandless, “Into The Wild”

4. “It’s not always necessary to be strong, but to feel strong.” ~ Christopher McCandless, “Into The Wild”

5. “The core of man’s spirit comes from new experiences.” ~ Christopher McCandless, “Into The Wild”

6. “I think careers are a 20th-century invention and I don’t want one.” ~ Christopher McCandless, “Into The Wild”
7. “The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure.” ~ Christopher McCandless, “Into The Wild”
8.  “All true meaning resides in the personal relationship to a phenomenon, what it means to you.” ~ Christopher McCandless, “Into The Wild”
9. “The whole idea was to lose our bearings, to push ourselves into unknown territory.” ~ Gordy Cucullu, “Into The Wild”
10. “Some people feel like they don’t deserve love. They walk away quietly into empty spaces, trying to close the gaps of the past.” ~ Christopher McCandless, “Into The Wild”

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11. “Don’t hesitate or allow yourself to make excuses. Just get out and do it. You will be very, very glad that you did.” ~ Christopher McCandless, “Into The Wild”
12. “It is the experiences, the memories, the great triumphant joy of living to the fullest extent in which real meaning is found.” ~ Christopher McCandless, “Into The Wild”
13. “The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.” ~ Christopher McCandless, “Into The Wild”
14. “I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love. I felt in myself a superabundance of energy which found no outlet in our quiet life.” ~ Christopher McCandless, “Into The Wild”
15. “Don’t settle down and sit in one place. Move around, be nomadic, make each day a new horizon.” ~ Christopher McCandless, “Into The Wild”
16. “I will miss you too, but you are wrong if you think that the joy of life comes principally from the joy of human relationships. God’s place is all around us, it is in everything and in anything we can experience.” ~ Christopher McCandless, “Into The Wild”
17. “If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed.” ~ Christopher McCandless, “Into The Wild”
18. “What if I were smiling and running into your arms? Would you see then what I see now?” ~ Christopher McCandless, “Into The Wild”
19. “A lot of people in the valley just love me a lot. Everybody now, I think, in the whole world is just loving me. And I want to have the wisdom to love them back. And that’s about it.” ~ Leonard Knight, “Into The Wild”
20. “People soften with the forced reflection that comes with loss.” ~ Christopher McCandless, “Into The Wild”

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21. “This is a love story that is staggering to everybody in the whole world. That God really loves us a lot.” ~ Leonard Knight, “Into The Wild”
22. “He believed that doing well was all mental, a simple matter of harnessing whatever energy was available.” ~ Christopher McCandless, “Into The Wild”
23. “You can’t fix it. Most things you can fix, but not that.” ~ Billie McCandless, “Into The Wild”
24. “Strong. You can do anything. You can go anywhere. Money, power is an illusion.” ~ Christopher McCandless, “Into The Wild”
25. “You’re just living, man. You’re just there, in that moment, in that special place and time.” ~ Christopher McCandless, “Into The Wild”
26. “I don’t need money. Makes people cautious.” ~ Christopher McCandless, “Into The Wild”
27. “The fragility of crystal is not a weakness but a fineness.”  ~ Christopher McCandless, “Into The Wild”
28. “He was right in saying that the only certain happiness in life is to live for others…” ~ Christopher McCandless, “Into The Wild”
29. “At long last he was unencumbered, emancipated from the stifling world of his parents and peers, a world of abstraction and security and material excess, a world in which he felt grievously cut off from the raw throb of existence.” ~ Christopher McCandless, “Into The Wild”
30. “I think maybe part of what got him into trouble was that he did too much thinking. Sometimes he tried too hard to make sense of the world, to figure out why people were bad to each other so often.” ~ Christopher McCandless, “Into The Wild”

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31. “He needed his solitude at times, but he wasn’t a hermit. He did a lot of socializing. Sometimes I think it was like he was storing up company for the times when he knew nobody would be around.” ~ Christopher McCandless, “Into The Wild”
32. “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.” ~ Christopher McCandless, “Into The Wild”
33. “It was the masterful and incommunicable wisdom of eternity laughing at the futility of life and the effort of life.” ~ Christopher McCandless, “Into The Wild”
34. “It should not be denied that being footloose has always exhilarated us. It is associated in our minds with escape from history and oppression and law and irksome obligations. Absolute freedom.” ~ Christopher McCandless, “Into The Wild”
35. “The only person you are fighting is yourself and your stubbornness to engage in new circumstances.” ~ Jon Krakauer, “Into The Wild”
36. “Nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future.” ~ Jon Krakauer, “Into The Wild”
37. “I now walk into the wild.” ~ Jon Krakauer, “Into The Wild”
38. “He’d just nod politely and then do exactly what he wanted,” ~ Jon Krakauer, “Into The Wild”
39. “When you forgive, you love. And when you love, God’s light shines upon you.” ~ Jon Krakauer, “Into The Wild”
40. “My days were more exciting when I was penniless and had to forage around for my next meal. The freedom and simple beauty of it is just too good to pass up.” ~ Christopher McCandless, “Into The Wild”

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41. “I have always been unsatisfied with life as most people live it. Always I want to live more richly and intensely.” ~ Christopher McCandless, “Into The Wild”
42. “Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me the truth.” ~ Christopher McCandless, “Into The Wild”
43. “Jan: Where are your mom and dad?
    Christopher McCandless: Living their lies somewhere.” ~ “Into The Wild“
44. “At that stage of my youth, death remained as abstract a concept as non-Euclidean geometry or marriage.” ~ Christopher McCandless
45. “Hours slide by like minutes. The accumulated clutter of day-to-day existence — the lapses of conscience, the unpaid bills, the bungled opportunities, the dust under the couch, the inescapable prison of your genes — all of it is temporarily forgotten.” ~ Christopher McCandless, “Into The Wild”

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46. “Unlike Muir and Thoreau, McCandless went into the wilderness not primarily to ponder nature or the world at large but, rather, to explore the inner country of his own soul.” ~ “Into The Wild“
47. “I’m not Superman, I’m Supertramp and you’re super apple. You’re so tasty, you’re so organic, so natural. You are the apple of my eye, ha!” ~ Christopher McCandless
48. “There is a pleasure in the pathless woods; there is a rapture on the lonely shore; there is society, where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not man the less, but nature more.” ~ Christopher McCandless
49. “Rainey: So you’re a leather now.
    Christopher McCandless: I’m a leather?
    Jan: Yeah, a leather tramp. That’s what they call the ones that hoof it, go on foot.” ~ “Into The Wild“
50. “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.” ~ Christopher McCandless

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