Quotes About Risk

Live life to the fullest because everything else is uncertain

A reasonable amount of danger is part of the price of living.

The only way to know how much you love a thing is to see it in peril of being lost.

Adventure, free of actual risk, is hard to produce.

We discovered that safety and security are commodities you can sell in return for excitement but you can never buy them back.

Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up.

What is lack of prevention but denial that there is anything to be prevented?

YOU CAN'T BE TOO OLD TO SPY EXCEPT IF YOU WERE FIFTY YOU MIGHT FALL OFF A FIRE ESCAPE, BUT YOU COULD SPY AROUND ON THE GROUND A LOT.

Not everyone's an explorer, and not every explorer makes it back alive. That's why it takes so much courage.

All the mistakes I've made have been because I've assumed something and then acted as though it was fact. Very dangerous, Agent Lemieux. Believe me. I wonder if you haven't already leaped to a false conclusion?

He was drawn to the edge of things. To the places old mariners knew, and warned, "Beyond here be monsters."… He stepped into the beyond, and found the monsters hidden deep inside all the reasonable, gentle, laughing people. He went where even they were afraid to go.

in Beauvoir's experience losers were the most dangerous people. Because eventually they got to the stage where they had nothing more to lose.

All that had been trivial, that had been comforting and familiar and safe, now seemed to be strapped with explosives.

Like the street his gallery was on, Fortin had an attractive front, hiding quite a foul interior. He was opportunistic. He fed on the talent of others. Got rich on the talent of others. While most of the artists themselves barely scraped by, and took all the risks.

Yes, the real danger always came from the thing you couldn't see.

It was messy. Unruly. Risky. Scary. So much could go wrong. Failure was always close at hand. But so was brilliance.

How close they all were, without knowing it, to disaster. All the time.

Le beau risque. The great risk. The beautiful risk. To climb out of the hole and start again.

Because you can't be brave if you're not afraid.

When I'm afraid, I always ask myself, what's the worst that can happen?" Chapter 5 · Page 41 · Location 733

Burn our ships.

he should fear never beginning to live.

There was, or could be, outright danger. Believing a person capable of redemption when they'd proven they were not.

Sometimes you just have to do something stupid.