David Sedaris Quotes

The crimes that become iconic etch themselves into the collective consciousness because they suggest a frightening truth: that the universe does not rely on cause and effect.

The. World. Is. Not. A. Safe. Place.

In Afghanistan, life is so fragile; who knows what the next week will bring? That fragility really affects the way you're able to report, and the kind of stories people will tell you.

The truth is this is a very dangerous world.

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

It's hard to care deeply for something that might turn on you and eat you.

And the terror itself is an example of the world's uncontrollability.

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

The way to feel safe is never to feel secure.

What I do think is really interesting is that, as I get older and more mature, I'm really attuned to how frightening this world is that we live in.

Life is a very scary thing because it's unknown. Anything can happen anytime, and that is terrifying for all of us: to not to be in control.

The world had teeth and it could bite you with them anytime it wanted.

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

Here's all I know: that the world is uncontrollable. Chaos reigns. That anything and everything might be possible. I won't subscribe to any rational system again. Nothing will bind me.

We must expect everything and fear everything from time and from men.

Nothing is really 'safe'.

It's a frightening world to be alone in.

A perpetually new and lively world, but a dangerous one, full of tragedy and injustice.

Everyone is a threat, and anyone can be beat at any given moment. No one is invincible.

Vulnerability is basically uncertainty, risk, and emotional exposure.

A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

I love people who try to keep the world in control - because the world is inherently not in control.

Risk is trying to control something you are powerless over.

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

When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them as if their reason had left them. When it has left a place where we have always found it, it is like shipwreck; we drop from security into something malevolent and bottomless.