Lou Doillon Quotes

I'll tell them that on bad mornings, it feels impossible to take pleasure in anything because I'm afraid it could be taken away.

Security is elusive. It's impossible. We all die. We all get old. We all get sick. People leave us. People change us. Nothing is secure.

We fear that this moment will end, that we won't get what we need, that we will lose what we love, or that we will not be safe. Often, our biggest fear is the knowledge that one day our bodies will cease functioning. So even when we are surrounded by all the conditions for happiness, our joy is not complete.

I do have a sense of displacement as constant instability - the uninterrupted existence of everything that I love and care about is not guaranteed at all. I wait for catastrophes.

Americans have discovered the fragility of life, that ominous fragility that the rest of the world either already experienced or is experiencing now with terrible intensity.

I don't think I'm invincible.

The world's my oyster. But it worries me, all this showing off about being happy. Life is so precarious, and I know terrible things can happen. At the moment, everything is happy.

The great risk of being alive is always that something can happen to you - or to someone you dearly love - at any moment.

It's so easy for all the success in the world to suddenly end, and I'm quite aware of that.

From childhood I had never believed in permanence, and yet I had longed for it. Always I was afraid of losing happiness. This month, next year...death was the only absolute value in my world. Lose life and one would lose nothing again forever.

We like to think of life as a constant ... Yet it can be ended in a heartbeat.

Five years after Aerosmith got back together, I realized how fragile we are as humans. There was a time I thought we were bulletproof, but then things happened and I came to the realization that I had to play every gig as if it was my last show. You have to start thinking that way, because you never know what's going to happen next.

What is this world? A mere curl of smoke for the wind to scatter.

I'm so happy with my family, my career and my friends, and I'd like for them to be here forever, so I guess loss is what scares me the most.

There is no such thing as security. There never has been.

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.

I don't take things for granted, because everything feels more fragile. It's made me wonder about mortality and how long you've got somebody in the world. I'm more fearful than I used to be.

Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world.

This world's a bubble.

Death is an absolute mystery. We are all vulnerable to it, it's what makes life interesting and suspenseful.

Every happiness is a hostage to fortune.

So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some.

Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.

...our best built certainties are but sand-houses and subject to damage from any wind of doubt that blows.

I feel our relationship to life, to the rest of the world, is very tenuous. It feels fleeting.