quotations about danger
Wisdom consists in being able to distinguish among dangers and make a choice of the least harmful.
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI
The Prince
The secret of the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment of existence is: to live dangerously!
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
The Joyful Wisdom
Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Henry IV
All our mortal lives are set in danger and perplexity: one day to prosper, and the next -- who knows? When all is well, then look for rocks ahead.
SOPHOCLES
Philoctetes
I do not think the forest would be so bright, nor the water so warm, nor love so sweet, if there were no danger in the lakes.
C. S. LEWIS
Out of the Silent Planet
When in danger or in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout.
HERMAN WOUK
The Caine Mutiny
Danger gleams like sunshine to a brave man's eyes.
EURIPIDES
Iphigenia in Tauris
Some dangers are to be courted--courted and braved as a coy mistress is to be wooed, with all the more vigor as the day makes against us.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE
Intuitions and Summaries of Thought
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
HELEN KELLER
The Open Door
One cannot answer for his courage when he has never been in danger.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
Maxims
Life is dangerous. That's what makes it interesting.
JOHN TWELVE HAWKS
The Traveler
The argument of danger only applies to those who live in relative safety.
GRAHAM GREENE
The Power and the Glory
She loved me for the dangers I had passed
And I loved her that she did pity them.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Othello
You know the world is in an uproar
The danger zone is everywhere, everywhere
RAY CHARLES
"Danger Zone"
Nearly everything that was fun, of course, was also a little dangerous: riding roller coasters, skydiving, gambling, sex.
DEAN KOONTZ
Dark Rivers of the Heart
A true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason, he wants woman, who is the most dangerous plaything.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
What seems dangerous often is not--black snakes, for example, or clear-air turbulence. While things that just lie there ... are loaded with jeopardy.
AMY HEMPEL
"In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson Is Buried"
Danger was the grindstone on which the swordsman whetted his spirit.
EIJI YOSHIKAWA
Musashi
At the approach of danger there are always two voices that speak with equal force in the heart of man: one very reasonably tells the man to consider the nature of the danger and the means of avoiding it; the other even more reasonable says that it is too painful and harassing to think of the danger, since it is not a man's power to provide for everything and escape from the general march of events; and that it is therefore better to turn aside from the painful subject till it has come, and to think of what is pleasant. In solitude a man generally yields to the first voice; in society to the second.
LEO TOLSTOY
War and Peace
He who fears dangers will not perish by them.
LEONARDO DA VINCI
Thoughts on Art and Life