Depressed Climbers

Famous quotes containing the words depressed and/or climbers:

“Sport in the sense of a mass-spectacle, with death to add to the underlying excitement, comes into existence when a population has been drilled and regimented and depressed to such an extent that it needs at least a vicarious participation in difficult feats of strength or skill or heroism in order to sustain its waning life-sense.”
—Lewis Mumford (1895–1990)

“The view is fine from fifty,
Experienced climbers say....”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)