Quotes About Precariousness

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

Once you know how completely and suddenly the earth can open up at your feet and the worst can happen, it also, paradoxically, leaves you more afraid of everything else.

I know how lucky I am, stupid with luck, crammed with it, stumbling drunk. I wake sometimes in the dark terrified by my life's precariousness, its thready breath.

As soon as there is life there is danger.

What arrogance made us think we were far enough to be safe?

He wasn't scared exactly, but he had that knife's edge thinness he used to get on the job, the sense that things could go either way.

There is already a generation of European graduates who feel they have been robbed of the better future they were led to expect. They are members of a new class: the precariat.

There's a brittleness to life for about 150 million Americans, with a constant risk that sickness, layoffs or a car accident will cause everything to collapse. One in seven Americans lives below the poverty line, a substantially higher rate than in Canada or other OECD countries, and scholars estimate that half of all Americans will at some point slip below the line.

All human things hang on a slender thread, the strongest fall with a sudden crash.