DANGER QUOTES

quotations about danger

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


Danger gleams like sunshine to a brave man's eyes.

EURIPIDES

Iphigenia in Tauris


When in danger or in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout.

HERMAN WOUK

The Caine Mutiny


Wisdom consists in being able to distinguish among dangers and make a choice of the least harmful.

NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI

The Prince


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


She loved me for the dangers I had passed
And I loved her that she did pity them.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Othello


One cannot answer for his courage when he has never been in danger.

FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Maxims


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


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


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


The argument of danger only applies to those who live in relative safety.

GRAHAM GREENE

The Power and the Glory


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"


Life is dangerous. That's what makes it interesting.

JOHN TWELVE HAWKS

The Traveler


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