Alan Watts Quotes

After all it really is all of humanity that is under threat during a pandemic.

I've gone to war zones before and never got shot.

That damn fool will get himself killed by some other damn fool.

The doctor is often more to be feared than the disease.

Every mission has life-or-death moments.

Aw, no one's gonna shoot at me.

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

If I went in the cage, I was going to end up eaten alive. That was actually one of my top five ways not to die.

It is foolish to try to live on past experience. It is very dangerous, if not a fatal habit, to judge ourselves to be safe because of something that we felt or did twenty years ago.

If people will bring dynamite into a powder factory, they must expect explosions.

There are thousands of years in the past, and there is an unknown amount of time in the future. There are all kinds of opportunities, and there are all kinds of dangers.

June cackled with delight, muttering, "Whoops!" as a car almost killed them.

Living was a dangerous past-time, and often quite painful—but there was also such joy in living, such beauty, things that one would otherwise never see, never experience, never know. The risk of pain and loss was a part of living.

I can remember a couple of real fights when I ran. Because they were kinda dangerous.

Put yourself in the path of lightning.

Old times, as my father used to say: If you're not careful, they'll gut you like a fish.

You managed not to get eaten then?

Don't get stabbed. It makes everything awkward.

Well...can't be any more dangerous than your crazy hospital break-in yeah?"-Tess (pg 59)

We don't have an address," I said, "but we do know where he works." "Are you thinking what I'm thinking?" Vee asked, eyes brightening briefly through the haze of chemical sedation. "Based on past experience, I hope not.

I'm always standing on the edge of something bad.

It's a tragedy that modernity has released this Ebola beast into the world. It renders humans untouchable, and that's sickening. The international response so far has been scandalous. China has delivered f**k all.

Whoever has not felt the danger of our times palpitating under his hand, has not really penetrated to the vitals of destiny, he has merely pricked the surface.

Quite possibly, what I call happiness may coincide with what others call the moment of imminent danger

Omission to do what is necessary Seals a commission to a blank of danger; And danger, like an ague, subtly taints Even then when we sit idly in the sun.