Living Dangerously Quotes

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

I think it's better to burn out than to fade away... it's better to live out your days being very, very active - even if it destroys you - than to quietly... disappear.

One has to take a somewhat bold and dangerous line with this existence: especially as, whatever happens, we are bound to lose it.

I don't want an uneventful and safe life, I prefer an adventurous one.

The secret of realizing the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment of existence is: to live dangerously! Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius! Send your ships out into uncharted seas! Live in conflict with your equals and with yourselves! Be robbers and ravagers as soon as you ca not be rulers and owners, you men of knowledge! The time will soon past when you could be content to live concealed int he woods like timid deer!

Risk isn't a word in my vocabulary. It's my very existence.

Don't think in terms of comfort; think in terms of freedom. Don't think in terms of safety, think in terms of being more alive. And the only way to be more alive is to live dangerously, is to risk, is to go on an adventure. And the greatest adventure is not going to the moon - the greatest adventure is going to your own innermost core.

This isn't life in the fast lane, it's life in the oncoming traffic.

Give up security as an ideal. Anyone who promises security is misbranding his political, social, and economic goods ... If you insist on being cheated, buy gold bricks or perpetual motion machines. It is now clear that if you live at all, you will live dangerously, not only during the instant crisis but for all our lives

He who climbs a cliff may die on the cliff, so what? Always a risk-taker by nature, now I became one by intent.

feeling - probably for the first time in my life - the fear and excitement of living in a place where you never know what's going to happen or when.

I think it's important to live with a certain danger and a certain risk.

A risk-free life is far from being a healthy life.

Lots of the things we do are dangerous, but life itself is dangerous; nothing is really worth bothering with that isn't full of danger

So you are lean and mean and resourceful and you continue to walk on the edge of the precipice because over the years you have become fascinated by how close you can walk without losing your balance.

I always played on my nerves - on the edge.

Being on the edge isn't as safe, but the view is better

I think we should all live on the precipe of life, as fully and as dangerously as possible. Everyone should make the assumption that they're going through life only once. Tomorrow we die. Why not take chances, extend yourself? How awful it is when a person comes to the end of life full of regret.

They say we're 98% water. We're that close to drowning. I like to live on the edge.

Life can be dangerous; just let it be! When we shake off what we perceive as boundaries, that is where the bliss really is.

When a man knows how to live amid danger, he is not afraid to die. When he is not afraid to die, he is, strangely, free to live.

Live dangerously. Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius.

Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing.

So we're living by that sword, and we're going to cut every now and then from it's backlash.

If my real life was half as exciting as what is reported, I would be thrilled.