Michel Houellebecq Quotes

If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine; it is lethal.

The main threads running through the lives of W. A. Clark and his daughter Huguette include the costs of ambition, the burdens of inherited wealth, the fragility of reputation, the folly of judging someone's life from the outside, and the tension between engaging with the world, with all its risks, and keeping a safe distance from danger.

The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.

I'm doing some more dangerous stuff on a weekly basis than professional stunt men are doing.

The danger, when not too dangerous, fascinate.

I fare the best when I'm in dangerous situations.

If I ever feel that this is dangerous or I'm scared of it, then that probably draws me more towards it.

If you're afraid to take risks in anything in life, it's just boredom.

Lots of the things we do are dangerous, but life itself is dangerous; nothing is really worth bothering with that isn't full of danger

Everything is dangerous to him that is afraid of it.

I still feel like my game is very dangerous. I always will have my serve.

When you start to live outside yourself, it's all dangerous.

When you're challenged, you're totally alive and totally dealing with reality, particularly if it could be dangerous. And that excites me!

It's a little dangerous to be a badass.

Make it dangerous or it's not worth doing.

Put yourself in the path of lightning.

Life is dangerous. That's what makes it interesting.

A man of my acquaintance once wrote a poem called "The Road Less Traveled", describing a journey he took through the woods along a path most travelers never used. The poet found that the road less traveled was peaceful but quite lonely, and he was probably a bit nervous as he went along, because if anything happened on the road less traveled, the other travelers would be on the road more frequently traveled and so couldn't hear him as he cried for help. Sure enough, that poet is dead.

The Devil may take the reckless, but the good will surely die of boredom. Boredom and frustration.

One has to take a somewhat bold and dangerous line with this existence: especially as, whatever happens, we are bound to lose it.

Nature has always something rare to show us... and the danger to life and limb is hardly greater than one would experience crouching deprecatingly beneath a roof.

There is no one as dangerous as he or she who has nothing to lose.

Occasio praeceps, experimentum periculosum, iudicium difficile."..' Opportunity is fleeting, experiment dangerous, and judgement difficult.

I know from my own experience that you've got to be ready on day one. There is just too much unpredictable threat and danger in the world today to try to just say wait, I'll get to that when I can. That is just not an acceptable approach.

Being on the edge isn't as safe, but the view is better