Garth Nix Quotes

A life of action and danger moderates the dread of death. It not only gives us fortitude to bear pain, but teaches us at every step the precarious tenure on which we hold our present being.

Explorers have to be ready to die lost.

Adventure, yeah. I guess that's what you call it when everybody comes back alive.

Learn to live on the edge.

Life has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.

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.

I'm a risk-taker. Most of my career has not been a joyful experience, but it has been challenging. I like the dangers.

I fare the best when I'm in dangerous situations.

Life is always full of dangers and I don't think one should avoid dangers.

Have I not walked without an upward look Of caution under stars that very well Might not have missed me when they shot and fell? It was a risk I had to take-and took.

Lots of the things we do are dangerous, but life itself is dangerous; nothing is really worth bothering with that isn't full of danger

Live dangerously. Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius.

Adventures are only interesting once you've lived to see the end of them. Before that, they are nothing but fear, and being too cold or too hot or too wet or too hungry, and getting hurt.

A life of action and danger moderates the dread of death.

You can't prepare for everything life's going to throw at you. And you can't avoid danger. It's there. The world is a dangerous place, and if you sit around wringing your hands about it, you'll out on all the adventure.

The devotion of the greatest is to encounter risk and danger, and play dice for death.

Life is a picnic on a precipice.

After two wars, I have been in danger too often to bother very much about being killed, and when it comes, I would prefer that it should happen in an aeroplane, since aeroplanes have been the best part of my life.

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.

Life has to be dangerous.

The maid that loves goes out to sea upon a shattered plank, and puts her trust in miracles for safety.

Life, like poker has an element of risk. It shouldn't be avoided. It should be faced.

To be alive at all involves some risk.

I didn't die young. So I am very lucky. There are other artists and people that didn't survive certain things... people can imagine that I did the most dangerous, and I did the worst... for many reasons, I shouldn't be here.

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.