Jenny Holzer Quotes

While there's life, there's fear.

I'd rather not have to come face to face with predators. I'd rather not be harassed. But no. Those weren't my choices to make, were they?

Truly, whoever we are, wherever we reside, we exist upon the whim of murderers.

The world is getting to be such a dangerous place, a man is lucky to get out of it alive.

The truth is this is a very dangerous world.

We live in an unsafe world.

Crimes are more often committed out of fear than wickedness. People live frightened, desperate lives.

In Mexico, you're close to death all the time.

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

The. World. Is. Not. A. Safe. Place.

Sometimes I think I won't ever feel safe until I can count my last days on one hand.

It is the strain of walking around the world-down the street, riding city buses and elevators, moving from place to place to place-and not knowing who might want to destroy you, who might like to fill your heart with poison, who might rob you and stab you, who might stand above you in the dark with a tarantula.

Well, feel this, why don't you? Feel how it feels to have a bed to sleep in and somebody there not worrying you to death about what you got to do each day to deserve it. Feel how that feels. And if that don't get it, feel how it feels to be a colored woman roaming the roads with anything God made liable to jump on you. Feel that.

In this county, we had to walk, eat, sleep and love in fear.

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

There are many people who live with terrorism every day.

My childhood ended in this horrible way. I lived in a country where I didn't trust anybody.

We fear that this moment will end, that we won't get what we need, that we will lose what we love, or that we will not be safe. Often, our biggest fear is the knowledge that one day our bodies will cease functioning. So even when we are surrounded by all the conditions for happiness, our joy is not complete.

If someone really wants to hurt you, they'll find a way whatever. I don't want to live my life worrying about it.

Being on the run, having to change the way that you do business, being unable to plan in a safe and secure environment, always looking over your shoulder, knowing that some day somebody's going to knock on your door and it's going to be your last.

There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.

I feel extremely vulnerable.

If I am not safe in Alton, I shall not be safe anywhere.

And the things that we fear are a weapon to be held against us.

Once you realise that heroes die, everything becomes that much more terrifying.