Quotes from James Ramsey Ullman

We are so clothed in rationalization and dissemblance that we can recognize but dimly the deep primal impulses that motivate us.

Youth is the time for dreams, boy...The trick is, when you get older, not to forget them. —Captain John Winters

It is the ultimate wisdom of the mountains that a man is never more a man than when he is striving for what is beyond his grasp. -James Ramsey Ullman

I do not believe in demons," he murmured, "but only in my Father Who is in Heaven. Only in Him - and in my other father, who has climbed on this mountain before me.

He climbed through the vast stillness, alone...and yet somehow, he knew, no longer alone. For now his two fathers climbed with him.

The truth was not always pleasant. It did not always have good manners and clean its fingernails. Sometimes it was in the eyes of a child or in a bird on a treetop, sometimes in a gutter, on a gallows, in a barracks latrine; and it was no less the truth in one place than in another. The dedication was to find it in all places - everywhere. To face it, know it, and be unafraid. Without evil, there could be no good; without filth, no purity, without hell, no heaven; without Satan, no God.

My eternal soul, Redeem your promise, In spite of the night alone And the day on fire.

It was not a mere man he was holding, but a giant; or a block of granite. The pull was unendurable. The pain unendurable.

We are so clothed in rationalization and dissemblance that we can recognize but dimly the deep primal impulses that motivate us.

It is the ultimate wisdom of the mountains that we are never so much human as when we are striving for what is beyond our grasp, and that there is no battle worth the winning save that against our own ignorance and fear.

It is the ultimate wisdom of the mountains that a man is never more a man than when he is striving for what is beyond his grasp.