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Quotes About Danger

Una donna giovane e affascinante un giorno sostenne, parlando con me non ricordo a quale proposito, che i colpi di luna sono mille volte più pericolosi dei colpi di sole. Li si prende, diceva, senza accorgersene, passeggiando nelle belle serate è non si guarisce mai; si resta pazzi, non pazzi furiosi, pazzi da rinchiudere, ma pazzi di una speciale follia, dolce e continua; non si pensa più come gli altri uomini.
~ Guy de Maupassant
Seguramente la soledad es peligrosa para las inteligencias que trabajan demasiado. Necesitamos tener a nuestro alrededor otras personas que nos comuniquen sus pensamientos. La soledad prolongada puebla de visiones fantasmales el vacío.
~ Guy de Maupassant
Be it so; but if you drive me to extremity, take care,—it is not always safe to make a woman desperate.
~ Guy de Maupassant
Do not call up that which you cannot put down.
~ H P Lovecraft
close and difficult to realize is the god, but where danger abounds, grows what saves.
~ Hölderlin
The allurement that women hold out to men is precisely the allurement that Cape Hatteras holds out to sailors: they are enormously dangerous and hence enormously fascinating.
~ H. L. Mencken
No tengo miedo a la soledad. La gente es infinitamente más peligrosa.
~ H. P. Lovecraft
Aprendí que no existe nada tan terrible y peligroso como la gente normal.
~ H. P. Lovecraft
My slight fall had extinguished the lantern, but I produced an electric pocket lamp and viewed the small horizontal tunnel which led away indefinitely in both directions. It was amply large enough for a man to wriggle through; and though no sane person would have tried at that time, I forgot danger, reason, and cleanliness in my single-minded fever to unearth the lurking fear.
~ H. P. Lovecraft
It is absolutely necessary, for the peace and safety of mankind, that some of earth's dark, dead corners and unplumbed depths be left alone; lest sleeping abnormalities wake to resurgent life, and blasphemously surviving nightmares squirm and splash out of their black lairs to newer and wider conquests.
~ H.P. Lovecraft
It is absolutely necessary, for the peace and safety of mankind, that some of earth's dark, dead corners and unplumbed depths be let alone; lest sleeping abnormalities wake to resurgent life, and blasphemously surviving nightmares squirm and splash out of their black lairs to newer and wider conquests.
~ H.P. Lovecraft
It is absolutely necessary, for the peace and safety of mankind, that some of earth's dark, dead corners and unplumbed depths be let alone;
~ H.P. Lovecraft
Her laughter was like sweet deadly venom.
~ H.P. Lovecraft
With hidden powers of unknown extent apparently at his disposal, Curwen was not a man who could safely be warned to leave town.
~ H.P. Lovecraft
Masson disliked and respected the ferocious little rodents, for he knew the danger that lurked in their flashing, needle-sharp fangs;
~ H.P. Lovecraft
Hay zonas sombrías en los alrededores de nuestros senderos cotidianos, y cada tanto un alma maldita abre un portal en ellas para acercarse a nosotros. Cuando eso ocurre, el hombre que lo presencia debe atacar antes de que se desaten terribles consecuencias
~ H.P. Lovecraft
There are forces close here that could kill a herd of elephants in a second as easily as you or I could squash a fly. Our only chance is to keep perfectly still. Our insignificance perhaps may save us.
~ H.P. Lovecraft
Apropos of sleep, that sinister adventure of all our nights, we may say that men go to bed daily with an audacity that would be incomprehensible if we did not know that it is the result of ignorance of the danger. -Baudelairei
~ H.P. Lovecraft
Some secrets of inner earth are not good for mankind
~ H.P. Lovecraft
Zaman?n, uzam?n ve doÄŸal yasalar?n insan? deli eden, y?prat?c? s?n?rlamalar?n? silkip atmak -engin uzakl?klarla baÄŸlant? kurmak- sonsuzluÄŸun ve hudutsuzluÄŸun en esrarl?, en derin s?rlar?na yaklaÅŸmak; böyle bir ÅŸey, kuÅŸku yok ki, insan?n hayat?n?, ruhunu ve ak?l saÄŸl???n? tehlikeye atmaya deÄŸerdi!
~ H.P. Lovecraft
The first 10 days of a cattle drive were the most critical, as a stampede was most likely when the cattle were closest to their habitual home.
~ H.W. Brands
If you get into danger, either you perish or you escape.
~ Halldor Laxness
Plato, along with the latest pope, recognised how dangerous it is to have an artist around making mischief, stirring things up with the spoon of truth and intoxicant of fantasy and magic. And so, for crossing the line, and for stealing God's fire, artists were banned, imprisoned, condemned, silenced, killed – they always would be, these sometimes Christs of the page.
~ Hanif Kureishi
Act – make an event. Smash the coordinates and see where the smithereens fly. Let in the madness, and be sure to be a danger to oneself and others. Too much thinking turns you into that fool Hamlet.
~ Hanif Kureishi