Chris Crutcher Quotes

Life is strange. You keep moving and keep growing. Before you know it, you look back and think, "What was that?"

I always think it's not what we know that's terrifying; it's what we don't know. That's sort of pervasive with everything in life.

The twists and turns of your life can be so unexpected, and that's a good thing to learn.

People are afraid of changing; that they're losing something. They don't understand that they are also gaining something.

Literally, I don't know where life is gonna go from one day to the next, and that's as exciting as it is tiring.

Stepping away from Fun. was both exciting and terrifying.

Change is very scary.

The unknown is always scary.

Ambiguity is our permanent state, isn't it? We don't like it being so. Most of us crave order and routine, and yet yawning before us is our future, as frightening as it is thrilling.

Then he asked if I didn’t like things changing. And I said I wouldn’t mind things changing if I became an astronaut, for example, which is one of the biggest changes you can imagine, apart from becoming a girl or dying.

And loss of control is always the source of fear. It is also, however, always the source of change.

Can you move on from something when you're not sure what it is you're moving on from?

Life takes us by surprise and orders us to move toward the unknown -even when we don't want to and when we think we don't need to.

What if I told you that 10 years from now, your life would be exactly the same? I doubt you would be happy. So, why are you so afraid of change?

What's scary is the unknown, the stuff you can't put your finger on.

I think we're in a very exciting time - visually, I think we are. I've not got a crystal ball. I'm not saying I know what the future is at all. In some ways I'm getting quite pessimistic about the future, but in other ways I think it might get better. We are moving into very big changes.

When I think about the future, I'm not necessarily arguing it's going to be better or worse. I'm just saying it's going to be different.

It's a very, very exciting time, but you can't help thinking or not quite knowing how it's seen from the outside. You're constantly in a state of terror or regret, not quite knowing how things are going to pan out, or whether you've made the right decisions. But, maybe that's just what it's like. Maybe that's just the life of it.

For something that is static, fixed, dead, there can be a way or a definite path; but not for anything that is moving and living.

The future is always scary to those who cling to the past.

The future and where we're going can be very terrifying, in some ways, but it's also really inspirational.

I feel that when we leave here I think it's just another transition and whatever it is I hope I'm prepared for it.

Change is one of the scariest things in the world and yet it is also one of those variables of human existence that no one can avoid.

It's not so much that we're afraid of change or so in love with the old ways, but it's that place in between that we fear . . . . It's like being between trapezes. It's Linus when his blanket is in the dryer. There's nothing to hold on to.

The prospect of change is a many-fanged beast, my dear.