Billy Eichner Quotes

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.

We are going through a terrible crisis. We do not know exactly what is going to happen, but in our hearts the pendulum of the seismograph is already swinging.

Sureness is something like a neck brace, which we clamp around our lives, hoping to somehow protect ourselves from the frightening, constant whiplash of change. Sadly, the brace doesn't always hold.

But I'm the sort of person who, if certain structures topple, it could all go horribly wrong.

I'm always surprised to rediscover that there's something kind of scary about life; and that the feeling we have that we're in charge is probably ill founded.

You fear that if you lower your guard for even one second your whole world will disintegrate into chaos

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

Maybe sometimes you just feel like everything can be taken from you all at once.

They were looking for a stable, but we didn't have one. In fact, we weren't very stable ourselves.

Insecurity and resignation mingle with the hope for a better order.

At the heart of any terror is the fear of losing what we find meaningful.

With such riches as I have in life, you're always nervous. Being Irish, you're waiting for something to knock it sideways.

I don't have control over what's on screen, and that's terrifying.

Our trust in the future has lost its innocence. We know now that anything can happen from one minute to the next. Politics, religion, economics, and the institutions of family and community all have become abruptly unsure.

I think right now in the world we're feeling like there's no solid ground beneath our feet, you know?

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

What annoys me about it is that your fate is always in somebody else's hands. It's always up to somebody else to decide whether or not they want you in their show and so the majority of actors have to play out a waiting game. The constant fear is that it could all end tomorrow.

Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth.

No one can enjoy freedom without trembling.

And the terror itself is an example of the world's uncontrollability.

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

I'm not sure I always feel like I'm in the seat. Sometimes I'm only holding on by one hand and flying out behind the roller coaster. I don't know anybody who doesn't feel that way.

It's just so fragile. The growing sense of 'Oh, God, what am I doing? Am I any good? Will I ever work again?' All those questions of self doubt, they do creep in.

All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.

Terror is the order of the day.