17 Quotes by Nando Parrado

My duty is to fill my time on earth with as much life as possible, to become a little more human every day, and to understand that we only become human when we love.

We were playing a game against an unknown and unforgiving opponent. The stakes were terrible – play well or die – but we didn’t even know the ground rules.

A human being, as I’ve said before, gets used to anything.

Things make sense. There are rules and realities that will not change to suit your needs. It’s your job to understand those rules. If you do, and if you work hard and work smart, you will be all right.

We understood, intuitively, that no one in this awful place could be judged by the standards of the ordinary world.

Each of us realized, with a clarity that is hard to describe, that the only crucial thing in life is the chance to love and be loved.

The mountain was teaching me a hard lesson: camaraderie is a noble thing, but in the end death is an opponent each of us would face in solitude.

When hope is lost, the mind protects us with denial, and my denial protected me from facing what I knew.