Joyce Cary Quotes

This was the consequence of seeing too much and understanding the horrible truth: No one is safe. The world is not manageable.

The truth is this is a very dangerous world.

It's a crazy world!

The world is a dangerous place to live

The world had teeth and it could bite you with them anytime it wanted.

You've got to bear it in mind that nobody that ever lived is specially privileged; the axe can fall at any moment, on any neck, without any warning or any regard for justice.

The world is always changing brightness and hotness and soundness, I never know how it's going to be the next minute.

Normal, in our house, is like a blanket too short for a bed--sometimes it covers you just fine, and other times it leaves you cold and shaking; and worst of all, you never know which of the two it's going to be.

No matter what I do, no matter how predictable I try to make my life, it will not be any more predictable than the rest of the world. Which is chaotic.

With me, you never know what is going to happen

Cling to your insecurity, in this world, it's the only thing you can be sure of.

We have no idea where the world is going, except that it's going there very fast.

The reelection of Bill Clinton is as secure as a double-knot tied in wet rawhide.

Life is a sleazy stranger, who looks vaguely familiar; flirting with a bimbo named disaster at the end of the bar.

The world began in hazard and will end in it.

History is a blood-drenched enigma and the world an error.

World is suddener than we fancy it.

To live in a fully predictable world is not to be a man.

For life is terribly deficient in form. Its catastrophes happen in the wrong way and to the wrong people. There is a grotesque horror about its comedies, and its tragedies seem to culminate in farce.

It is merely this world that is chaotic, bringing changes to us all that nobody could have anticipated.

Nothing is really 'safe'.

The world never leaves one in ignorance or in peace.

Nothing in the world causes so much misery as uncertainty.

Outside our small safe place flies mystery.

The world is fine. Our place on it is precarious.