Will Smith Quotes

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

Don't take too much comfort in the fact that you're successful today because tomorrow could bring failure. There's no surety in life.

There is no such thing as security. There never has been.

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.

Nothing is fixed or foolproof; I have no delusion about that.

Anything that's given to you can be taken away from you at any time.

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.

I do have a sense of displacement as constant instability - the uninterrupted existence of everything that I love and care about is not guaranteed at all. I wait for catastrophes.

The foundations of our lives are far more fragile than we think. So we are severely shaken when life turns out to have a will of its own.

Alas for the affairs of men! When they are fortunate you might compare them to a shadow; and if they are unfortunate, a wet sponge with one dash wipes the picture away.

Americans have discovered the fragility of life, that ominous fragility that the rest of the world either already experienced or is experiencing now with terrible intensity.

Fragility is the quality of things that are vulnerable to volatility.

There is much good luck in the world, but it is luck. We are none of us safe. We are children, playing or quarrelling on the line.

There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.

This world's a bubble.

...our best built certainties are but sand-houses and subject to damage from any wind of doubt that blows.

The way to feel safe is never to feel secure.

You can't even stand without risking to fall.

Pull a string, a puppet moves ... each man must realize that it can all disappear very quickly: the cat, the woman, the job, the front tire, the bed, the walls, the room; all our necessities including love, rest on foundations of sand - and any given cause, no matter how unrelated: the death of a boy in Hong Kong or a blizzard in Omaha ... can serve as your undoing. all your chinaware crashing to the kitchen floor, your girl will enter and you'll be standing, drunk, in the center of it and she'll ask: my god, what's the matter? and you'll answer: I don't know, I don't know.

No one from the beginning of time has had security.

I was also ready to believe, though, that whatever good things I had managed to set upright could topple at any second.

Listen to me: everything you think you know, every relationship you've ever taken for granted, every plan or possibility you've ever hatched, every conceit or endeavor you've ever concocted, can be stripped from you in an instant. Sooner or later, it will happen. So prepare yourself. Be ready not to be ready. Be ready to be brought to your knees and beaten to dust. Because no stable foundation, no act of will, no force of cautious habit will save you from this fact: nothing is indestructible.

Everyone is a threat, and anyone can be beat at any given moment. No one is invincible.

He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner.