Herman Melville Quotes

There is risk everywhere. Being alive carries the risk of death.

There are only two kinds of men; the dead and the deadly.

To be alive at all involves some risk.

Living is risking.

It's very real, the narrow line between a night danced away and the potential of death around the corner.

Life is a dangerous thing. Insecurity is the price of living.

A man rarely knows the day and hour when he will die. I could be killed any moment and there's not a blasted thing I can do about it.

I'm not afraid of death. It's the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life.

Even without wars, life is dangerous.

While there's life, there's fear.

There's just no real job security when you're shooting a show about an apocalypse, and anybody could die at any time.

Boss, life is trouble. Only death is not. To be alive is to undo your belt and look for trouble.

My belief about acting in one foot on a banana peel and the other one in the grave.

I thought they'd get one of us, but Jack, after all he's been through, never worried about it I thought it would be me.

Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don't let yourself believe it will happen to you.

A lot of people refuse to do things because they don't want to go naked, don't want to go without guarantee. But that's what's got to happen. You go naked until you die.

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

Death is a sniper. It strikes people you love, people you like, people you know - it's everywhere. You could be next. But then you turn out not to be. But then again, you could be.

Most of the authors I liked were dead, so it didn't seem like a safe occupation.

I don't feel like I have anything to lose, so I don't really understand what I'm putting at risk.

I've been doing extremely dangerous activities for a long time, but I've been lucky enough to have survived so far. However, sooner or later we all die... and, if that's the case, I want to die doing what I love to do the most. That's how I view death.

Life is a risk.

We were then in a dangerous, helpless situation, exposed daily to perils and death amongst savages and wild beasts, not a white man in the country but ourselves.

I didn't think I was going to die. I knew some did. I knew there were some rumors.