Markus Zusak Quotes

It is no achievement to walk a tightrope laid flat on the floor.

Uncertainty doesn't make life worth living, quite, but it does make striving and gambling worth attempting.

A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short.

It's very easy to walk on a wire if you spend a whole lifetime practicing for it.

Designing is a lot like a high-wire act - if the tightrope walker is only six inches off the ground, where's the excitement?

Life is always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope.

Like all pioneers I have labored more in faith and hope.

I don't have my life mapped out. I am happy to see where it goes, and then, hopefully, I won't be disappointed.

Life in L.A. has been amazing. It's been really hard, it's been eventful. It's a lot of what ifs and maybes and being hopeful.

I treat my life as though I am on a tightrope.

We live in a world where joy is possible, love is possible, happiness is possible; where all things are possible, if we're willing to take the time, take a chance, take a breath and step off the edge of everything that is for the sake of everything that might be.

The true way goes over a rope which is not stretched at any great height but just above the ground. It seems more designed to make people stumble than to be walked upon.

Don't ask for security, ask for adventure

I'm a risk-taker. It's where my passion lies, so I don't want to play it safe. That means I'm going to fail sometimes.

Life is dangerous. That's what makes it interesting.

We Shall come through! We cannot tell when, we cannot tell how, but we shall come through.

I was dimly aware that I might be getting in over my head. But that only added to the scheme’s appeal. That it wouldn’t be easy was the whole point.

I am going to seek a grand perhaps.

Hope, that risky, illustrious thing. It should have gone extinct by now, but we keep it alive.

Risk is an essential part of progress.

When someone wants something then they should be aware that they are taking a risk. But this is precisely what makes life interesting.

Its a toss-up when you decide to leave the beaten track. Many are called, few are chosen.

The test of an adventure is that when you're in the middle of it, you say to yourself "Oh now I've got myself into an awful mess; I wish I were sitting quietly at home. And the sign that something's wrong with you is when you sit quietly at home wishing you were out having lots of adventure.

I like being at that place where you can either fall or stand. That's where I think you really have a shot at doing something truthful.