Quotes about Peril

The arrows of death fly unseen at noon-day; the sharpest sight cannot discern them.

The argument of danger only applies to those who live in relative safety. (The Power and the Glory)

I don't think it's much use your looking for the brains: a creature who twice walked into a lions den can't have got any.

A fogged brain puts everyone in danger.

It must be most dangerous then to be a man. It is indeed, madame, and but few survive it.

But it must be borne in mind that, if there is a Scylla before me, there is also a Charybdis - and that, in my fear of being read as a jest, I may incur the darker destiny of not being read at all.

Dangers bring fears, and fears more dangers bring.

Our days begin with trouble here,Our life is but a span,And cruel death is always near,So frail a thing is man.

They be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.

Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.

Militant missionary religions can share this illusion of the proud past, ' but few understand the ultimate peril to humankind-that false sense of freedom from responsibility for your own actions.

We try to copy these patterns in our lives and our society, seeking the rhythms, the dances, the forms that comfort. Yet, it is possible to see peril in the finding of ultimate perfection. It is clear that the ultimate pattern contains its own fixity. In such perfection, all things move toward death.