Irvin D. Yalom Quotes

He that's secure is not safe.

Out of this nettle - danger - we pluck this flower - safety.

The seduction of safety is always more dangerous than the illusion of uncertainty.

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.

Living is dangerous. The important thing is to know the limits.

And the most dangerous place on earth - Is where you’re safe.

Security will produce danger.

There are always dangers about. Therefore you must always keep your defences strong.

We hope all danger may be overcome; but to conclude that no danger may ever arise would itself be extremely dangerous.

I don't want nothing comin' at me that I can't stop.

Security is when everything is settled, when nothing can happen to you; security is the denial of life.

Fear is the foundation of safety.

In the real world in which we live, it's a dangerous world. And you know the old saying is that we have to be right 100 percent of the time; the terrorists only have to be right once.

We are not safe. We are safer than we were, but we are not as safe as we could be.

Safety and comfort comes with complacency, and that's never a good place to be working from.

I can't cruise no more. You cruise, you lose.

It's a dangerous world, man. You've gotta keep your eyes and ears peeled and be on the alert all the time.

The world is a dangerous place to live

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

We are never more in danger than when we think ourselves most secure, nor in reality more secure than when we seem to be most in danger.

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

We live in a world with so many dangers that we have to be careful whom we trust.

There is no safer. There’s not even safe, never has been.

And if you are not a bird, then beware of coming to rest above an abyss.