17 Quotes by Everett Ruess

I don’t think I could ever settle down. I have known too much of the depths of life already, and I would prefer anything to an anticlimax.

I’ll never stop wandering. And when the time comes to die, I’ll find the wildest, loneliest, most desolate spot there is.

I have seen almost more beauty than I can bear.

I thought that there were two rules in life – never count the cost, and never do anything unless you can do it wholeheartedly. Now is the time to live.

Always, I want to live more intensely and richly.

I have been in many beautiful places, and did not wish to taste, but to drink deep.

I have always been unsatisfied with life as most people live it. Always I want to live more intensely and richly.

I’m drunk on the fiery elixer of beauty.