Jack Huston Quotes

So we're in this process of letting go of our own attachments to our physical forms and to the people we love, and... basically everything. Life is like this one big process of letting go.

It's so easy for all the success in the world to suddenly end, and I'm quite aware of that.

Everything you gather is just one that you can lose.

Security is elusive. It's impossible. We all die. We all get old. We all get sick. People leave us. People change us. Nothing is secure.

Five years after Aerosmith got back together, I realized how fragile we are as humans. There was a time I thought we were bulletproof, but then things happened and I came to the realization that I had to play every gig as if it was my last show. You have to start thinking that way, because you never know what's going to happen next.

No man can lose what he never had.

People come. They go. Dying is the same as rehab or moving back to Missouri. It just means I won't be seeing them again.

Yes, you can lose somebody overnight, yes, your whole life can be turned upside down. Life is short. It can come and go like a feather in the wind.

It was despairing to find out that I am mortal.

We have to know that nothing is promised, nothing is guaranteed, especially tomorrow.

Everything that we love will, at some point, be taken away from us. If I think about everyone I love eventually being taken away from me by death, or simply by getting lost from each other in the world, it makes me value them much more now.

Life is not orderly. No matter how we try to make life so, right in the middle of it we die, lose a leg, fall in love, drop a jar of applesauce.

This is part of the involuntary bargain we make with the world just by being alive. We get to experiences the splendor of nature, the beauty of art, the balm of love and the sheer joy of existence, always with the knowledge that illness, injury, natural disaster, or pure evil can end it in an instant for ourselves or someone we love.

Death is an absolute mystery. We are all vulnerable to it, it's what makes life interesting and suspenseful.

So how can you lose what you've never owned?

I remember one time watching a bird snatch a dragonfly out of midair and thinking, 'Gee, life can come to an end - crunch! - just like that.'

Most people are dispensable in 'Game of Thrones,' not only in the story but in the series.

Being part of 'Game of Thrones,' you're always expecting your character to die. You're not mentally preparing yourself for a very long haul.

It's a good thing about George R.R. Martin: He's prepared to kill off the main guys. You don't get the feeling that the good guy is going to last forever, like James Bond.

That's the nature of this business. Something that took ten years to make can crumble in an instant. It could be snatched away from you at any moment.

Anything you loved, however intensely, becomes mortifying the moment you cease to love it.

Relationships are temporary, and everyone needs to understand that.

The great risk of being alive is always that something can happen to you - or to someone you dearly love - at any moment.

Life is like this: things come and go.

I'm not fixated on death but I know tomorrows are not guaranteed.