Danger Quotes

The eye of danger and the face of fear are what really pull off a person's mask.

~ Criss Jami

This boy wore the ocean in his eyes, green-gray-blue, ever shifting, and I recognized him immediately. Knew before he said another word that he was as dangerous as he was beautiful.

~ Sarah Ockler

Knowledge is a rope, and you're weaving a noose out of it. Leave some slack for the enemy.

~ Nenia Campbell

You would do well to guard your tongue, lest it be stricken from you.

~ Nenia Campbell

It took a certain kind of person to come from luxury and seek out danger.

~ Sara Sheridan

You end up with a machine which knows that by its mildest estimate it must have terrible enemies all around and within it, but it can't find them. It therefore deduces that they are well-concealed and expert, likely professional agitators and terrorists. Thus, more stringent and probing methods are called for. Those who transgress in the slightest, or of whom even small suspicions are harboured, must be treated as terrible foes. A lot of rather ordinary people will get repeatedly investigated with increasing severity until the Government Machine either finds enemies or someone very high up indeed personally turns the tide... And these people under the microscope are in fact just taking up space in the machine's numerical model. In short, innocent people are treated as hellish fiends of ingenuity and bile because there's a gap in the numbers.

~ Nick Harkaway

Previous journeys had taught me the danger of taking too much stuff.

~ Tahir Shah

They hurried when they could, and dozed when they had to, hiding in tangles of bloodtwig and heartsease at the edge of the road.

~ Erin Bow

In times of stress and danger such as come about as the result of an epidemic, many tragic and cruel phases of human nature are brought out, as well as many brave and unselfish ones.

~ William Crawford Gorgas

Most creatures run when they sense danger. People grab a six-pack and a folding chair.

~ Nenia Campbell

a lot of human behavior was really acting out our responses to dangers long past.

~ Orson Scott Card

Within Hobbes’ depiction of the motives for conflict. . . there is a problematic in which the grave threat that human beings pose to other human beings is not constituted simply by the structures of human passions, interests, and desires, nor by the addition of a self-deceptive and egotistical desire for recognition and proof of one’s perhaps illusory power. In this moment, it is the very rationality of other humans, reason in the broad sense, understood as roughly equal to oneself in both capacity and structure, that poses such a threat

~ Gregory B. Sadler

It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.

~ Thomas Jefferson

Eradicating mosquitoes is a means to an end. An uninfected mosquito is harmless to humans - just a nuisance. An infected mosquito is a danger.

~ T.k. Naliaka

And then, every time I didn't see her, there was a fall involved. I thought about dancing on the fifth-floor ledge outside out apartment. Every train she wasn't on felt something like hitting the pavement from five floors up. So maybe my father was right about that. Maybe happiness and excitement really are dangerous things.

~ Catherine Ryan Hyde

I've always been attracted to stories about rebels - things that are unusual and sometimes dangerous.

~ Sara Sheridan

I seek to sensitize and clarify the essential elements of my soul. I will leave striving for the flags of fame and fortune behind and go where the soul beckons without fearing the decisive outcome. I will travel in a world without boundaries and embrace danger and awe. I will stand as a witness to comedy, beauty, and tragedy and apply the principles of artistic and ascetic forms of awareness to overcome the inherent frustration of enduring a fundamentally painful human existence.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Danger is real, fear is a choice

~ Will Smith

What I do . . . the path I tread . . . it brings some choices that test me hard.

~ Juliet Marillier

Someone else deciding what was too dangerous for me to be involved in or pursue had never stopped me yet.

~ Gwenda Bond

You’ve never had someone you love snatched,” I shot back, annoyed by her ignorance. “Any sense of safety kind of bites it after that. You watch your back because no one else can.

~ Katherine Mcintyre

Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity; wherever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable.

~ Earl Nightingale

Trees surrounded them from all sides, casting long inky shadows that would, at another time, have been scary. But there was no point in being scared of what might be lurking in the shadows when the biggest bad, of all big bads, was gazing at her intently.

~ Caroline Hanson

A decision made during a moment of weakness can ruin your life.        To date, I had made three.

~ Melika Dannese Lux

Monsters exist, but they are too few in number to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are the common men, the functionaries ready to believe and to act without asking questions.

~ Primo Levi

Thought is more dangerous than you think.

~ Wayne Gerard Trotman

Worse still, it isn’t actually necessary to look to space for petrifying danger. As we are about to see, Earth can provide plenty of danger of its own.

~ Bill Bryson

He realized that, despite the dangers and alarms of the day, waiting was perhaps the worst thing of all.

~ Dan Abnett

A chap’s impending death has a way of focusing the mind.


~ Sara Sheridan

The ‘gods’ that do us the greatest harm are the gods we deny having.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

And then I heard the ring of metal on concrete, and I went cold, because one of them had found a piece of rebar lying around, and I knew with sudden certainty that these guys were going to kill me right here on this stupid sidewalk, for nothing, without even the reason of knowing my name or hating my politics. They were just going to kill me because they needed to kill something, and I was handy. At least zombies would have had a reason.

~ Rachel Caine

Again with that slow, lordly smile. Perfectly shaped for Luc's fist.

~ Page Morgan

Fear and anxiety affect decision making in the direction of more caution and risk aversion... Traumatized individuals pay more attention to cues of threat than other experiences, and they interpret ambiguous stimuli and situations as threatening (Eyesenck, 1992), leading to more fear-driven decisions. In people with a dissociative disorder, certain parts are compelled to focus on the perception of danger. Living in trauma-time, these dissociative parts immediately perceive the present as being just like the past and emergency emotions such as fear, rage, or terror are immediately evoked, which compel impulsive decisions to engage in defensive behaviors (freeze, flight, fight, or collapse). When parts of you are triggered, more rational and grounded parts may be overwhelmed and unable to make effective decisions.

~ Suzette Boon

After a traumatic experience, the human system of self-preservation seems to go onto permanent alert, as if the danger might return at any moment.

~ Judith Lewis Herman

Human beings, like plans, prove fallible in the presence of those ingredients that are missing in maneuvers - danger, death, and live ammunition.

~ Barbara W. Tuchman

As he had kissed her neck, she could not repress the feeling she was a lamb making time with a wolf.

~ Thomm Quackenbush

The power of words to deceive is a danger far exceeding any we might encounter from physical weapons. Sticks and stones can break bones! But words can lead worlds into ruin!

~ Steve Bivans

Revenge is a business of calculation, best served cold. Rescue holds more of sacrifice, suicidal danger, and all manner of other madness that should have me running in the opposite direction.

~ Mark Lawrence

In a while, her eyes felt leaden and she felt sleep overpower her, even as she fought to keep her eyes open. In vain, I tried to churn within her, a little nugget of fear, trying desperately to warn her of impending danger.

~ Deepti Menon

The only disadvantage in surviving a dangerous experience lies in the fact that your story of it tends to be anticlimactic. You can never carry on right through the point where whatever it is that threatens your life actually takes it -- and get anybody to believe you. The world is full of sceptics.

~ Beryl Markham