Henry A. Kissinger Quotes

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

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

Listen to me: everything you think you know, every relationship you've ever taken for granted, every plan or possibility you've ever hatched, every conceit or endeavor you've ever concocted, can be stripped from you in an instant. Sooner or later, it will happen. So prepare yourself. Be ready not to be ready. Be ready to be brought to your knees and beaten to dust. Because no stable foundation, no act of will, no force of cautious habit will save you from this fact: nothing is indestructible.

He that's secure is not safe.

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

I have a wife, I have sons: all of them hostages given to fate.

The truth is you don't know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed.

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

It is this compulsion to look backwards at a time of crisis because one's got no idea of what lies ahead. There is a notion of security that somehow it must resemble the past. It's never going to. Just because we muddled through in the past doesn't mean we can automatically muddle through in the future.

The way to feel safe is never to feel secure.

Life is dangerous. There are no guarantees.

In wartime you never know what is going to happen, you never know whether you will still be around tomorrow, and that is a great leveller.

You have to accept the fact that as long as you are alive, you have something to lose. Living is dangerous.

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

I've lost a lot of control in my life.

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.

it's impossible to conquer all fear and loss by preparation. There are always sources of desolation that aren't taken into account because no one knows what they will be.

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

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.

No man alive can say, This shall not happen to me.

Nothing is really 'safe'.

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.

You can have this kind of love. You can have it. You just grab it. Of course the problem with having that love is that you can lose it, too.

No man can ever be secure until he has been forsaken by Fortune.

I felt vulnerable and very much between friends. I remember walking down the hallway and thinking I had no way of knowing what was coming, literally. This wasn't because I had some horrific bullying story, but because of a steady drip of negativity.