Joseph Campbell Quotes

The world's a rollercoaster and I am not strapped in. Maybe I should hold with care, but my hands are busy in the air.

I have a feeling I'm falling on rare occasions but most of the time I have my feet on the ground I can't help it if the ground itself is falling.

We must remember that we are living in an age in which the ground is shifting and the foundations are shaking. I cannot answer for other times and places. Perhaps it has always been so. We know it is true today.

I will literally open my mouth not knowing what is coming out.

At its best, life is completely unpredictable.

Events are moving so fast and what in one moment seems impossible, the next is happening. I'm sure historians will, in time, provide theories and analysis, but for now I think most of us simply want the tide stemmed.

Our trust in the future has lost its innocence. We know now that anything can happen from one minute to the next. Politics, religion, economics, and the institutions of family and community all have become abruptly unsure.

So give me a turbulent world as opposed to a quiet world and I'll take the turbulent one.

When I grew up, there were common patterns to people's lives. Now everybody is just making it up as they go along.

I'm not sure I always feel like I'm in the seat. Sometimes I'm only holding on by one hand and flying out behind the roller coaster. I don't know anybody who doesn't feel that way.

The truth, whether we admit it or not, is that grace scares us to death. It scares us primarily because it wrestles control and manageability out of our hands - introducing chaos and freedom.

I'm not afraid of chaos and I'm happy talking to strangers. I really love not knowing where I'm going.

We live in a... chaotic world.

I like things to be unpredictable.

Festivals are the best because you can't control anything, and for a control freak like me, that's a wonderful experience.

This sport is crazy, anything can happen.

That's it. Curtains. Off to the races. Treetops. Seashells and balloons.

Vivre est une chute horizontale. Life is a horizontal fall.

The future had suddenly become unknowable: anything could happen: the train of my life had jumped the rails and headed off across the fields and coming down the lane with me, then.

... when I left the stage door and sought my orientation among real people I was in a wilderness of unpredictables in an unchoreographed world.

Human nature, essentially changeable, as unstable as the dust, can endure no restraint; if it binds itself it soon begins to tear madly at its bonds, until it rends everything asunder, the wall, the bonds, and its very self.

I call myself a blind man riding on a blind tiger.

True adventure begins when everything goes wrong.

Life is nothing without a little chaos to make it interesting.

There's a war on. We don't know how anything's going to end. We just have to grasp each fleeting moment of joy as it whizzes by.