25 Quotes by Mark Twight

Eventually, I sickened of people, myself included, who don’t think enough of themselves to make something of themselves-people who did only what they had to and never what they could have done. I learned from them the infected loneliness that comes at the end of every misspent day. I knew I could do better.

I don’t actually care what I climb, only how it affects me. Which means the summit doesn’t matter as much as the emotional process.

Apperance is a Consequence of Fitness.

Frostbite? I consider that a failure.

Memories and hope are not so different; one is “having done” the other is “to do.” Neither constitutes action. You are what you do; thus, if you do nothing, you are nobody. If you once did great things, you think you are great. You coast along on dead, preserved laurels, lifeless and wasting away.

I scavenged for sensation, sought myself in the rewards of being out there, across the Border.

The months of being disingenuously friendly and the resulting self-hatred taught me that self-confidence cannot be based on the approval of others.