Daniel Handler Quotes

However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.

Whether I fall on my feet or fall on my arse, I dunno. You've got to take those risks.

It's a crazy game. It's a game we all choose to play.

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

I'm crazy enough to believe in taking chances in every way, in making choices and gambling with your life. That's the kind of gambling I believe in.

You can't prepare for everything life's going to throw at you. And you can't avoid danger. It's there. The world is a dangerous place, and if you sit around wringing your hands about it, you'll out on all the adventure.

Life is dangerous and you're not gonna live a life without risk.

Take a chance! All life is a chance

A certain amount of danger is essential to the quality of life.

I have set my life upon a cast, And I will stand the hazard of the die.

When someone wants something then they should be aware that they are taking a risk. But this is precisely what makes life interesting.

The only safe thing is to take a chance.

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

And for me, the real world involves everything: risk, danger, beauty, energy, all we meet with in the real world.

In life you need to take a risk.

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

The only safe thing is to take a chance.

It's like gambling somehow. You go out for a night of drinking and you don't know where your going to end up the next day. It could work out good or it could be disastrous. It's like the throw of the dice.

Life is a risk.

I always feel the danger because you might always be subject to an unexpected or emergency event.

Life is a gamble, at terrible odds - if it was a bet you wouldn't take it.

Life is a big craps game. I've got to tell you, it's all been fun.

Living is risking.

It's very real, the narrow line between a night danced away and the potential of death around the corner.

But I'm the sort of person who, if certain structures topple, it could all go horribly wrong.