Jostein Gaarder Quotes

All human things Of dearest value hang on slender strings.

Every good thing in the world stands on the razor-edge of danger.

Power is precarious.

What a seaOf melting ice I walk on!

Life can be like walking on a high wire. Falling seems a tiny misstep away.

Only lie about the future.

Truth is often attended with danger

The way to feel safe is never to feel secure.

The best actors just stay in the moment, and whatever happens in the scene is a genuine surprise. You really do not know what's going to happen next. But living that out in life is very dangerous because it throws you into a place where you don't know if you're going to survive.

As soon as there is life there is danger.

At the end of the day, there are risks; there's no question - in any sport, any activity.

The great risk of being alive is always that something can happen to you - or to someone you dearly love - at any moment.

If you're too much in control, you feel too secure in your shoes, and where's the emotion to keep going in life? To keep that spark going, you have to feel like an outsider.

The European Union is not unbreakable; something that is breakable is extremely valuable.

I never think I'm safe. I always live in fear I will lose.

The word I think of is precarious. I am struck by how precarious it all is. How the things that hold us are only as strong as the faith we have in them.

The only safety is in the middle of total misunderstanding and deception.

There are no safe rooms, no safe truths, no safe secrets to tell.

It is dangerous, at any time, to multiply sources of weakness.

Danger comes in many forms, I suppose. For some people, it might be jumping off a bridge or climbing impossible moutains. For others, it could be a tawdry love affair or telling off a mean-looking bus driver because he doesn't like to stop for noisy teenagers. It could be cheating at cards or eating a peanut even though you're allergic. For me, danger might be getting out from the protective cloak of my family and venturing into the world more of my own, even though I don't know what- or who- awaits me.

When things seem calmest, that is the time you should fear the most, it's when you have the most to lose.

Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water.

Every new painting is like throwing myself into the water without knowing how to swim.

Sometimes lies were more dependable than the truth.

Taking one’s chances is like taking a bath, because sometimes you end up feeling comfortable and warm, and sometimes there is something terrible lurking around that you cannot see until it is too late and you can do nothing else but scream and cling to a plastic duck.