Steven Wright Quotes

You can't even stand without risking to fall.

Life can be like walking on a high wire. Falling seems a tiny misstep away.

But I'm the sort of person who, if certain structures topple, it could all go horribly wrong.

The wind shows us how close to the edge we are.

The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear.

No one can enjoy freedom without trembling.

I feel confidence in myself, but at the same time there's these cracks in the facade and those little things underneath that are unstable.

Every good thing in the world stands on the razor-edge of danger.

I treat my life as though I am on a tightrope.

Life and death are balanced as it were on the edge of a razor

All that I am hangs by a thread tonight

Trust not one night's ice.

True genius walks along a line, and, perhaps, our greatest pleasure is in seeing it so often near falling, without being ever actually down.

No one from the beginning of time has had security.

Lean against the edge, sweetheart. I'm falling off."--Brent Greene

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

Henry Fonda one time said that every time he had a job, he thought it was gonna' be the last one. And, if you got any sense, you gotta' think that because, you know when somebody's gonna do a dip, some of 'em go pretty far down.

Most of my life, I feel I have been Unicycling at the Edge of the Abyss! If fact, this will be the name of my book if I ever write one, or a one man stand up routine. I have used it as the name of a collection of my musical compositions written during the '90s. It fits the scary journey I feel I've been on.

Every time I put on high heels, I think: 'Well, I'll fall over today.' Almost always, I don't. Almost. But all high-heel-wearing women live in constant peril.

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.

Our trust in the future has lost its innocence. We know now that anything can happen from one minute to the next. Politics, religion, economics, and the institutions of family and community all have become abruptly unsure.

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

Sureness is something like a neck brace, which we clamp around our lives, hoping to somehow protect ourselves from the frightening, constant whiplash of change. Sadly, the brace doesn't always hold.

Fragility is the quality of things that are vulnerable to volatility.

There is much good luck in the world, but it is luck. We are none of us safe. We are children, playing or quarrelling on the line.