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Top 15 Reinhold Messner Quotes (2025 Update)

Reinhold Messner Quote: “The wonderful things in life are the things you do, not the things you have.”

1. “The wonderful things in life are the things you do, not the things you have.”

— Reinhold Messner

Reinhold Messner Quote: “I didn’t go up there to die. I went up there to live.”

2. “I didn’t go up there to die. I went up there to live.”

— Reinhold Messner

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Reinhold Messner Quote: “I always take the same perspective with each new adventure. I put myself in the position of being at the end of my life looking back. Then I ask myself if what I am doing is important to me.”

3. “I always take the same perspective with each new adventure. I put myself in the position of being at the end of my life looking back. Then I ask myself if what I am doing is important to me.”

— Reinhold Messner

Reinhold Messner Quote: “Mountains are not fair or unfair, they are just dangerous.”

4. “Mountains are not fair or unfair, they are just dangerous.”

— Reinhold Messner

Reinhold Messner Quote: “Bolts are the murder of the impossible.”

5. “Bolts are the murder of the impossible.”

— Reinhold Messner

Reinhold Messner Quote: “In my state of spiritual abstraction, I no longer belong to myself and to my eyesight. I am nothing more than a single narrow gasping lung, floating over the mists and summits.”

6. “In my state of spiritual abstraction, I no longer belong to myself and to my eyesight. I am nothing more than a single narrow gasping lung, floating over the mists and summits.”

— Reinhold Messner

Reinhold Messner Quote: “I want to solve a climbing problem in the mountains, not in the sporting goods store.”

7. “I want to solve a climbing problem in the mountains, not in the sporting goods store.”

— Reinhold Messner

Reinhold Messner Quote: “Those that reach their goals perish.”

8. “Those that reach their goals perish.”

— Reinhold Messner

Reinhold Messner Quote: “My market value increases with every outside critisism. Therefore, the frequently raised contention that I am the most highly critisized mountaineer does not disturb me in the slightest.”

9. “My market value increases with every outside critisism. Therefore, the frequently raised contention that I am the most highly critisized mountaineer does not disturb me in the slightest.”

— Reinhold Messner

Reinhold Messner Quote: “I was in continual agony; I have never in my life been so tired as on the summit of Everest that day. I just sat and sat there, oblivious to everything...”

10. “I was in continual agony; I have never in my life been so tired as on the summit of Everest that day. I just sat and sat there, oblivious to everything...”

— Reinhold Messner

Reinhold Messner Quote: “After every few steps, we huddle over our ice axes mouths agape, struggling for sufficient breath to keep our muscles going... at a height of 8800 metres, we can no longer keep on our feet while we rest. We crumple to our knees, clutching our axes... Every ten or fifteen steps we collapse into the snow to rest, then crawl on again.”

11. “After every few steps, we huddle over our ice axes mouths agape, struggling for sufficient breath to keep our muscles going... at a height of 8800 metres, we can no longer keep on our feet while we rest. We crumple to our knees, clutching our axes... Every ten or fifteen steps we collapse into the snow to rest, then crawl on again.”

— Reinhold Messner

Reinhold Messner Quote: “By going to places where I do not belong, I experience the art of living – orientation through disorientation. All the deserts of the world lie within us, after all.”

12. “By going to places where I do not belong, I experience the art of living – orientation through disorientation. All the deserts of the world lie within us, after all.”

— Reinhold Messner

Reinhold Messner Quote: “What gives me strength is the feeling of being independent. In effect, I’m really just a dilettante. I’ve lived, explored, and worked – but only in nonjobs. I’ve often achieved success against all the predictions. And I’ve done it by following a very simple pattern of behavior: stick at it and do everything in my power to make it happen.”

13. “What gives me strength is the feeling of being independent. In effect, I’m really just a dilettante. I’ve lived, explored, and worked – but only in nonjobs. I’ve often achieved success against all the predictions. And I’ve done it by following a very simple pattern of behavior: stick at it and do everything in my power to make it happen.”

— Reinhold Messner

Reinhold Messner Quote: “I came to realize that my path to knowledge would not lead me to libraries, professors, universities, and studies. My path to knowledge was through living life and experiencing reality. I could learn plenty secondhand, but nothing was ever to surpass the experiences I had in the wilderness. All my knowledge of social, scentific, and religious issues has been acquired through personal experience.”

14. “I came to realize that my path to knowledge would not lead me to libraries, professors, universities, and studies. My path to knowledge was through living life and experiencing reality. I could learn plenty secondhand, but nothing was ever to surpass the experiences I had in the wilderness. All my knowledge of social, scentific, and religious issues has been acquired through personal experience.”

— Reinhold Messner

Reinhold Messner Quote: “I’m primarily concerned with what happens inside a person when they encounter the mountains. When you climb a mountain, you come back down as a different person. We don’t change the mountain by climbing it; we ourselves change.”

15. “I’m primarily concerned with what happens inside a person when they encounter the mountains. When you climb a mountain, you come back down as a different person. We don’t change the mountain by climbing it; we ourselves change.”

— Reinhold Messner

Reinhold Messner Quote: “I would rather be ostracized than assimilated! I read recently that my greatest accomplishment was my unerring ability to make myself unpopular.”

16. “I would rather be ostracized than assimilated! I read recently that my greatest accomplishment was my unerring ability to make myself unpopular.”

— Reinhold Messner

Reinhold Messner Quote: “For it depended entirely on me as to whether the myth of the mountain was to be transformed and the path found between the supernatural and reality. It was in me that all expectations were vested.”

17. “For it depended entirely on me as to whether the myth of the mountain was to be transformed and the path found between the supernatural and reality. It was in me that all expectations were vested.”

— Reinhold Messner

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