David Eagleman Quotes

Risk is trying to control something you are powerless over.

We can't control it, and we've basically quit trying. People are going to talk, and people are going to lie.

If the world wants you, it's gonna keep on coming till it gets you. And who am I that can fix it? Who am I that can change this if the world wants it so badly? Who am I to stop the end of the world if it keeps on coming?

It is difficult, when faced with a situation you cannot control, to admit you can do nothing.

This is why people cry at the movies: because everybody’s doomed. No one in a movie can help themselves in any way. Their fate has already staked its claim on them from the moment they appear onscreen.

It was a train wreck happening right in front of me and I couldn't do anything about it, except that not only was I watching, I was also the train.

I don't want you to go," Sam said. She was upset. "I don't want this to end like this." "You don't get to choose," Lincoln said. "It's just happening.

I am tired of trying to hold things together that cannot be held. Trying to control what cannot be controlled. I am tired of denying myself what I want for fear of breaking things I cannot fix. They will break no matter what we do.

...for the first time in my life, a voice went off in my head:'You have no power over what happens in your life. Drugs dictate exactly what you're going to do. You've taken your hands off the steering wheel, and you're going wherever the drug world takes you.' That had never changed. The feeling would well up inside of me, and no matter how much I loved my girl or my band or my friends or my family, when that siren song 'Go get high now' started playing in my head, I was off.

I knew it would soon be the end, so I played the part, you know, the part of — how shall I say, I don’t know.

In this world, who can do a thing, will not; And who would do it, cannot, I perceive: Yet the will's somewhat — somewhat, too, the power — And thus we half-men struggle.

They were trying to run, trying to hide. But the rock would not hide them; the dead tree gave no shelter.

The worst part a man can suffer is to have insight into much and power over nothing.

Mortals. I envy you. You think you can change things. Stop the universe. Undo what was done long before you came along. You are such beautiful creatures.

I'm losing control."-Brittany Mamacita, I've already lost it."-Alex

Humans - whatever billions we are - we don't have the control. We are considered expendable, basically.

You can run but you can't hide

Will I ever get control of my life? Will I always be shoved back and pushed around by those I trust?

The end of suffering does not justify the suffering, and so there is no end to suffering.

We are in the grip of some big machine grinding us along. The force of it simplifies everything. A weird calm settled over me from inside out. What is about to happen has stood in line to happen. All the roads out of that instant have been closed, one by one.

The mice which helplessly find themselves between the cats teeth acquire no merit from their enforced sacrifice.

You cannot flea a stone.

Will without power is like children playing at soldiers.

We're all running away. Some of us just don't get very far.

Nothing can be repaired or advanced but only accepted