Danger Quotes

As a historian, I have learned that, in fact, not everyone who reaches back into history can survive it. And it is not only reaching back that endangers us; sometimes history itself reaches inexorably forward for us with its shadowy claws.

~ Elizabeth Kostova

It was not the brutality of what occurred next that changed my mind and brought home to me the full meaning of fear. It was the brilliance of it.

~ Elizabeth Kostova

The instinct of self-deception in human beings makes them try to banish from their minds dangers of which at the bottom they are perfectly aware by declaring them nonexistent, and a warning such as mine against cheap optimism was bound to prove particularly unwelcome at a moment when a sumptuously laid supper was awaiting for us in the next room.

~ Stefan Zweig

Laziness and cowardice are the reasons why so great a portion of mankind, after nature has long since discharged them from external direction (naturaliter maiorennes), nevertheless remains under lifelong tutelage, and why it is so easy for others to set themselves up as their guardians. It is so easy not to be of age. If I have a book which understands for me, a pastor who has a conscience for me, a physician who decides my diet, and so forth, I need not trouble myself. I need not think, if I can only pay - others will easily undertake the irksome work for me.That the step to competence is held to be very dangerous by the far greater portion of mankind...

~ Immanuel Kant

In his stupor, the forest had begun to change. The sounds were confusing, his eyes blurring in his exhaustion. He tugged another branch out of the way, gasping as a jagged twig poked through the palm of his hand, momentarily catching there. The pain was almost an afterthought, his fingers no longer working effectively.

~ Danika Stone

Elric knew that everything that existed had its opposite. In danger he might find peace. And yet, of course, in peace there was danger. Being an imperfect creature in an imperfect world he would always know paradox. And that was why in paradox there was always a kind of truth. That was why philosophers and soothsayers flourished. In a perfect world there would be no place for them. In an imperfect world the mysteries were always without solution and that was why there was always a great choice of solutions.

~ Michael Moorcock

People who see beauty all around them live in a beautiful world. People who see danger all around them live in a dangerous world.

~ Debasish Mridha

Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers,but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, butfor the heart to conquer it.

~ Rabindranath Tagore

To esteem what makes you holy over what makes you happy - that is the greatest dare.

~ Criss Jami

Magic? What did magic have to do with breaking into someone's store and stealing their stuff?Don't you get it? Peter said. You're free now. You don't have to live by their rules anymore. Peter pointed into the inky blackness of the basement. The darkness is calling. A little danger, a little risk. Feel your heart race, listen to it. That's the sound of being alive. It's your time, Nick. Your one chance to have fun before it's all stolen by them, the adults, with their cruelty and endless rules, their can't-do-this, and can't-do-that's, their have-tos, and better-dos, their little boxes and cages all designed to break your spirit, to kill your magic.

~ Brom

It is a very difficult thing, to love another.To some it comes easily, naturally even. Whilst for others, the road to such things is long and arduous and fraught with danger.

~ Ross Turner

It felt like betrayal, finding joy even in little things when Willow was in danger.

~ Melanie Crowder

Little Maiden Encounters FearDeepest regions walked she therelittle maiden sweet and fairventured far from the pathnever a whispernever a laugh...

~ Muse

I'd rather be in danger with you than be safe without you.

~ Fuyumi Ono

Keep your innocence and ignorance aside, and expose yourself to dangerous situations, and understand the deeper secrets of life.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Every time I go to sleep, I know I may never wake up. How could anyone expect to? You drop your tiny, helpless mind into a bottomless well, crossing your fingers and hoping that when you pull it out on its flimsy fishing wire it hasn't been gnawed to bones by the beasts below. Hoping you pull up anything at all.

~ Isaac Marion

In every community there is a class of people profoundly dangerous to the rest. I don't mean the criminals. For them we have punitive sanctions. I mean the leaders. Invariably the most dangerous people seek the power. While in the parlors of indignation the right-thinking citizen brings his heart to a boil. (p. 51)

~ Saul Bellow

Only when you are dangerous are you truly equal to the world.

~ Daniel Hecht

Crystal then read the red sticker out loud, Dangerous, do not open. We both stared at each other for a moment. I was trying to figure out why a dumb book about power was dangerous

~ Dominic Tomasi

But what help is it to us to look into the constellation of truth? We look into the danger and see the growth of the saving power.Through this we are not yet saved. But we are thereupon summoned to hope in the growing light of the saving power. How can this happen? Here and now and in little things, that we may foster the saving power in its increase. This includes holding always before our eyes the extreme danger.

~ Martin Heidegger

Power and control are more dangerous than any weapons.

~ Aisha Mirza

Democrasy comes into grave danger when truth is no longer spoken to power.

~ Paul Bamikole

The desert and the ocean are realms of desolation on the surface.The desert is a place of bones, where the innards are turned out, to desiccate into dust.The ocean is a place of skin, rich outer membranes hiding thick juicy insides, laden with the soup of being.Inside out and outside in. These are worlds of things that implode or explode, and the only catalyst that determines the direction of eco-movement is the balance of water.Both worlds are deceptive, dangerous. Both, seething with hidden life.The only veil that stands between perception of what is underneath the desolate surface is your courage.Dare to breach the surface and sink.

~ Vera Nazarian

I often wonder what happened to those few I spent my youth in battle beside, those select individuals whom I was drawn to simply by coincidence, whom I joined forces with against an unknown future and a world so large that we depended upon each other because none of us knew a damn thing, and we were all so wise.

~ Daniel J. Rice

A negative outlook is dangerous. When you say, “It can’t get any worse!” You're essentially challenging the universe to do exactly that.

~ Kamand Kojouri

One cannot answer for his courage when he has never been in danger.

~ François De La Rochefoucauld

Laughing in the face of danger doesn't negate the fear, it simply enables you to smile at it.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

It takes a Bigger Courage to take on Danger, where None can be Sighted.

~ Vineet Raj Kapoor

... an utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.

~ Herman Melville

Growing up, I always had a soldier mentality. As a kid I wanted to be a soldier, a fighter pilot, a covert agent, professions that require a great deal of bravery and risk and putting oneself in grave danger in order to complete the mission. Even though I did not become all those things, and unless my predisposition, in its youngest years, already had me leaning towards them, the interest that was there still shaped my philosophies. To this day I honor risk and sacrifice for the good of others - my views on life and love are heavily influenced by this.

~ Criss Jami

A dangerous and treacherous path is only worth it when the desire to have courage outweighs the driving need to get to the other side.

~ Solange Nicole

Danger confronted properly is not something a man must fear.

~ Tom Clancy

If its danger you seek, come on over. I covet tranquility but beget the tempest storm.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

It waited for her. Standing resolute in the moonlight, it had stood for a hundred years. Yet it waited just for her. Shadows passed across the moon, a cool breeze ruffled the leaves around it. Yet still it waited for her. Ancient tombs glowed in shimmery moonlight, row upon row of cold silent witnesses.

~ Grace Willows

The tragedy in life to mourn over is the death of what lies within a person who is still alive. The death of a potential is a mess of destiny!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

To conquer the dangers of giving up, do what your passion moves you to do.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

The possibility of injury or death was a strong attraction: as the online world became more and more pre-edited and slicked up, and as even its so-called reality sites raised questions about authenticity in the minds of the viewers, the rough, unpolished physical world was taking on a mystic allure.

~ Margaret Atwood

I will not allow my mistakes of the past compromise my hope for the future.

~ Charles F. Glassman

Even the smallest changes in our daily routine can create incredible ripple effects that expand our vision of what is possible.

~ Charles F. Glassman

A healthy attitude is contagious, let others catch it.

~ Charles F. Glassman