- Future
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Yossi Ghinsberg Quotes
Most Famous Yossi Ghinsberg Quotes of All Time!
We have created a collection of some of the best yossi-ghinsberg quotes so you can read and share anytime with your friends and family. Share our Top 10 Yossi Ghinsberg Quotes on Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Know
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
A professional knows what's impossible. If you know it's impossible, it is impossible. But if you don't know it's impossible, suddenly it is possible.
- Jungle
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to be like the heroes of the books I read. That's why I wanted to go to the jungle. I wasn't interested in danger from the adrenaline aspect, I was more interested in the romance.
- Daughter
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
My Uncle Nissim studied Kabbalah. Just before he died, he gave this tiny book, its pages yellow with age. He said it had special powers. I had a feeling that the book helped to keep me safe. My daughter is called Nissim after him.
- Death
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I became a very simple person. The simple things are the most precious to me. I don't ascribe much significance to the things I have now. That feeling of touching death has never left me.
- Fire
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
At one point, I shook a tree full of fire ants on my head just to have some pain to distract me from my aching feet so that I could continue to walk.
- Powerful
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Survival is very powerful. All your faculties want to cling to life. We're not tested usually, luckily, but when we are, we become superheroes.
- Big
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I was young, out of the military service in Israel. I was looking for a big adventure, and I was searching for it.
- Die
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Did I pray for death? I did one time. I wanted to die so badly. And I didn't want to die. I wanted to rest, you know. And I knew the only rest I would find is in death.
- Book
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
It was like a dream come true for me. When you write the book, it's still intimate. It might have been a best-seller but it's still my story, as I wrote it. The moment we or they make a movie, it's not my story anymore. There's a lot of letting go involved in the process.
- Energy
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
You eat anything when you need energy to survive and there's nothing in your body, when you are becoming just bones and tissues and muscles and I don't wish those circumstances on anybody.
- Big Enough
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not an expert on India-Pakistan relations, but, Pakistan is big enough without Kashmir and India too is big enough without Kashmir.
- Daughter
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I went to South America with the idea that I would be an explorer, that I'd find lost tribes, become one of them, marry the chief's daughter and find riches of gold.
- Collapsing
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Every time I found an egg to eat, or when I survived a storm in which trees were collapsing all around me, I felt that it was Providence. I don't need to believe - I know.
- City
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Yes, I'm a fan, and 'The Lost City of Z' has been my inspiration. Percy Fawcett was one of my heroes, and I loved the book and the film. I was lost in the same area that Fawcett had explored, and I can identify with his sense of passion and obsession, and I definitely see the romance in searching for lost treasure.
- Had
- |
- Nov 07, 2020