They were proclaiming the primacy of the spirit, the superiority of faith and courage over all the calculations and values of our acquisitive society.Author
True civilization resides not in the comforts of life but in knowing how to renounce them.Author
Why did they have to be so neat, so goddamn neat, even in death?Nando Parrado
Life can be made as difficult and as desperate as possible. Yet even that cannot deny a man his true human nature.Author
The dividing line between sanity and madness can be finer than one imagines, and it takes but the sound of a human voice to bring one safely back.Author
They found me. I can go home.Canessa
We are customary creatures, mere vehicles of habit, and it takes a jolt to make us change our ways.Author
Death, that most certain of all certainties, though it is but the end of a process natural to all life, seems to us an injustice.Author
The sea of white was unscaleable, beautiful, and forbidding.Nando Parrado
It is not what we imagine when we suffer, but what we suffer when we imagine.Author
Those twelve passengers who had been in the tail bargained each day with death.Author
Every ounce of my strength and spirit was harnessed to survive.Nando Parrado
She was all I had, all I have, and all I will have.Canessa
Only those who survive the tsunamis of pain can understand what it truly means to celebrate life.Author
For all their savagery, for all their primitive environment, these men were in the process of re-inventing civilization.Author