Touching The Void Documentary Quotes & Sayings

It's very hard to be objective about something you're in, especially when you set it up against things that you experienced as a child. — David Tennant

O stand, stand at the window
As the tears scald and start;
You shall love your crooked neighbour
With your crooked heart. — W. H. Auden

Religion today is not transforming people; rather it is being transformed by the people. It is not raising the moral level of society; it is descending to society's own level, and congratulating itself that it has scored a victory because society is smilingly accepting its surrender. — A.W. Tozer

It's always been said that when I can't find a way to do anything, I will find a way to do it. — Michael Jordan

An isolated person requires correspondence as a means of seeing his ideas as others see them, and thus guarding against the dogmatisms and extravagances of solitary and uncorrected speculation. No man can learn to reason and appraise from a mere perusal of the writing of others. If he live not in the world, where he can observe the public at first hand and be directed toward solid reality by the force of conversation and spoken debate, then he must sharpen his discrimination and regulate his perceptive balance by an equivalent exchange of ideas in epistolary form. — H.P. Lovecraft

My memory bank has overflowed out of control forever. I'm surprised my smile hasn't killed me yet. I have lived an indescribable joyful, adventurous, musical dream life and it just gets better every year. — Ted Nugent

If there are none [gods], All our toil is without meaning. — Euripides

The idea of American exceptionalism doesn't extend to Americans being exceptional. — Maureen Dowd