Yuichiro Miura Quotes

Be sure the safest rule is that we should not dare to live in any scene in which we dare not die.

A life of action and danger moderates the dread of death.

There are only two kinds of men; the dead and the deadly.

I'm of the mind that life is a risk, every time you leave your house it's a risk, and I see no reason to go through life with my hands tied behind my back for any reason. I'd be foolish to let something stop me from doing what I love to do.

Explorers have to be ready to die lost.

To live without risk for me would be tantamount to death.

Not only do the brave get killed, but the brave have a better chance of it.

Any coward can sit in his home and criticize a pilot for flying into a mountain in a fog. But I would rather, by far, die on a mountainside than in bed. What kind of man would live where there is no daring? And is life so dear that we should blame men for dying in adventure? Is there a better way to die?

The devotion of the greatest is to encounter risk and danger, and play dice for death.

The maid that loves goes out to sea upon a shattered plank, and puts her trust in miracles for safety.

Danger is cool.

To be alive at all involves some risk.

My belief about acting in one foot on a banana peel and the other one in the grave.

Even from a very early age, I knew I didn't want to miss out on anything life had to offer just because it might be considered dangerous.

Death is a sniper. It strikes people you love, people you like, people you know - it's everywhere. You could be next. But then you turn out not to be. But then again, you could be.

I'm all about taking chances. You have to ask yourself, if you're not taking any chances, are you actually even living? Every time you walk out of your door and you're out in the world, you take a chance on not coming back. That is the danger and the dynamic of being alive.

If what you do is being threatened as a profession, that could be scary. But that's the same reason why I walked out on stage many times after receiving death threats. I couldn't live without doing what I wanted to do. So at the same time I have to be willing to die for it.

The danger sensation is exciting. The challenge is to find new dangers.

I just don't want to die without a few scars.

I'm not frightened of death.

You need to be in danger; otherwise, you get old.

In war, everything changes. You are very selective of what you do because everything you do can be the last thing you do in your life.

Fighting, for me, is like skydiving without the parachute.

But we survived, didn’t we? That makes it an adventure. If you get killed it’s a tragedy.

A life of action and danger moderates the dread of death. It not only gives us fortitude to bear pain, but teaches us at every step the precarious tenure on which we hold our present being.