We had seen God in His splendors, heard the text that Nature renders. We had reached the naked soul of man.
ERNEST SHACKLETONWe had seen God in His splendors, heard the text that Nature renders. We had reached the naked soul of man.
ERNEST SHACKLETONAfter months of want and hunger, we suddenly found ourselves able to have meals fit for the gods, and with appetites the gods might have envied.
ERNEST SHACKLETONI chose life over death for myself and my friends. I believe it is in our nature to explore, to reach out into the unknown. The only true failure would be not to explore at all.
ERNEST SHACKLETONI do not know what ‘moss’ stands for in the proverb , but if it stood for useful knowledge… I gathered more moss by rolling than I ever did at school.
ERNEST SHACKLETONIf you’re a leader, a fellow that other fellows look to, you’ve got to keep going.
ERNEST SHACKLETONBy endurance we conquer.
ERNEST SHACKLETONI have often marveled at the thin line which separates success from failure.
ERNEST SHACKLETONSuperhuman effort isn’t worth a damn unless it achieves results.
ERNEST SHACKLETONA man must shape himself to a new mark directly the old one goes to ground.
ERNEST SHACKLETONI thought you’d rather have a live donkey than a dead lion.
ERNEST SHACKLETONOne feels ‘the dearth of human words, the roughness of mortal speech’ in trying to describe things intangible.
ERNEST SHACKLETONDifficulties are just things to overcome after all.
ERNEST SHACKLETONWhen things are easy, I hate it.
ERNEST SHACKLETONI called to the other men that the sky was clearing, and then a moment later I realized that what I had seen was not a rift in the clouds but the white crest of an enormous wave.
ERNEST SHACKLETONFrom the sentimental point of view, it is the last great Polar journey that can be made.
ERNEST SHACKLETONThe noise resembles the roar of heavy, distant surf. Standing on the stirring ice one can imagine it is disturbed by the breathing and tossing of a mighty giant below.
ERNEST SHACKLETON