John Fowles Quotes

There is risk everywhere. Being alive carries the risk of death.

Life is dangerous. There are no guarantees.

Hazard has conditioned us to live in hazard. All our pleasures are dependent on it. Even though I arrange for a pleasure, and look forward to it, my eventual enjoyment of it is still a matter of hazard. Wherever time passes, there is hazard.

I don't think Lloyd's of London would insure this mouth.

Even without wars, life is dangerous.

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

To be alive at all involves some risk.

The truth is this is a very dangerous world.

There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.

Risk is a part of God's game, alike for men and nations.

It's a kind of Russian roulette.

As soon as there is life there is danger.

You've got to bear it in mind that nobody that ever lived is specially privileged; the axe can fall at any moment, on any neck, without any warning or any regard for justice.

Here life itself, life at its best and healthiest, awaits the caprice of the bullet. Let us see the development of the day. All else may stand over, perhaps for ever. Existence is never so sweet as when it is at hazard.

Life is one big minefield, and the only place that isn't a minefield is the place they make the mines.

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

Uncertainty and danger are always closely allied, thus making any kind of an unknown world a world of peril and evil possibilities.

Death and disaster are at our shoulders every second of our lives, trying to get at us. Missing, a lot of the time. A lot of miles on the motorway without a front wheel blow-out. A lot of viruses that slither through our bodies without snagging. A lot of pianos that fall a minute after we've passed. Or a month, it makes no difference. So unless we're going to get down on our knees and give thanks every time disaster misses, it makes no sense to moan when it strikes.

A man rarely knows the day and hour when he will die. I could be killed any moment and there's not a blasted thing I can do about it.

What is life, but one long risk?

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

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

When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.

Life to me is defined by uncertainty. Uncertainty is the state in which we live, and there is no way to outfox it.

The roof might fall in; anything could happen.