Stephen Hough Quotes

Don't take too much comfort in the fact that you're successful today because tomorrow could bring failure. There's no surety in life.

That's the nature of this business. Something that took ten years to make can crumble in an instant. It could be snatched away from you at any moment.

Security is elusive. It's impossible. We all die. We all get old. We all get sick. People leave us. People change us. Nothing is secure.

Anything that's given to you can be taken away from you at any time.

Anything can go away. There's no such thing as safety and security. You can do things that give you the illusion of safety and security, but there's really no such thing.

Listen to me: everything you think you know, every relationship you've ever taken for granted, every plan or possibility you've ever hatched, every conceit or endeavor you've ever concocted, can be stripped from you in an instant. Sooner or later, it will happen. So prepare yourself. Be ready not to be ready. Be ready to be brought to your knees and beaten to dust. Because no stable foundation, no act of will, no force of cautious habit will save you from this fact: nothing is indestructible.

Five years after Aerosmith got back together, I realized how fragile we are as humans. There was a time I thought we were bulletproof, but then things happened and I came to the realization that I had to play every gig as if it was my last show. You have to start thinking that way, because you never know what's going to happen next.

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.

Americans have discovered the fragility of life, that ominous fragility that the rest of the world either already experienced or is experiencing now with terrible intensity.

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

Fragility is the quality of things that are vulnerable to volatility.

It's been up, down, and sideways for me, man. I could become a huge star, or I could get cancer tomorrow.

Nothing is fixed or foolproof; I have no delusion about that.

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

Pull a string, a puppet moves ... each man must realize that it can all disappear very quickly: the cat, the woman, the job, the front tire, the bed, the walls, the room; all our necessities including love, rest on foundations of sand - and any given cause, no matter how unrelated: the death of a boy in Hong Kong or a blizzard in Omaha ... can serve as your undoing. all your chinaware crashing to the kitchen floor, your girl will enter and you'll be standing, drunk, in the center of it and she'll ask: my god, what's the matter? and you'll answer: I don't know, I don't know.

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

As for success, I don't care for it. It is a fragile thing.

The foundations of our lives are far more fragile than we think. So we are severely shaken when life turns out to have a will of its own.

Alas for the affairs of men! When they are fortunate you might compare them to a shadow; and if they are unfortunate, a wet sponge with one dash wipes the picture away.

Winning had become kind of automatic, but I realized in 2008 that at any moment that could be taken away from me.

All human things Of dearest value hang on slender strings.

These things bring you to reality as to how fragile you are; at the same moment you are doing something that nobody else is able to do. The same moment that you are seen as the best, the fastest and somebody that cannot be touched, you are enormously fragile.

People still don't appreciate how ephemeral success is.

There will always be something to ruin our lives, it all depends on what or which finds us first. We are always ripe and ready to be taken.

We have to know that nothing is promised, nothing is guaranteed, especially tomorrow.