James Agee Quotes

Death and disaster are at our shoulders every second of our lives, trying to get at us. Missing, a lot of the time. A lot of miles on the motorway without a front wheel blow-out. A lot of viruses that slither through our bodies without snagging. A lot of pianos that fall a minute after we've passed. Or a month, it makes no difference. So unless we're going to get down on our knees and give thanks every time disaster misses, it makes no sense to moan when it strikes.

Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.

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

When the sun is shining, think of the time it won't be, because even when you're sitting in your house with the doors shut, misfortune can fall from above. Page 279

There will always be something to ruin our lives, it all depends on what or which finds us first. We are always ripe and ready to be taken.

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

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.

Life is dangerous. There are no guarantees.

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.

Nothing is certain, ma petite, not even death." - Jean-Claude

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.

Truly, whoever we are, wherever we reside, we exist upon the whim of murderers.

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

Fortune raises up and fortune brings low both the man who fares well and the one who fares badly; and there is no prophet of the future for mortal men.

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.

He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner.

Don't take too much comfort in the fact that you're successful today because tomorrow could bring failure. There's no surety in life.

No one in safe in 'Game of Thrones.'

I've made peace with insecurity... because there is no security of any kind.

Tomorrow is not promised to any of us.

These things bring you to reality as to how fragile you are; at the same moment you are doing something that nobody else is able to do. The same moment that you are seen as the best, the fastest and somebody that cannot be touched, you are enormously fragile.

He that's secure is not safe.

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.

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.