Peril Quotes

“So it is more useful to watch a man in times of peril, and in adversity to discern what kind of man he is; for then at last words of truth are drawn from the depths of his heart, and the mask is torn off, reality remains.”
― Lucretius

“If thinking and reason crack under pressure of emotional convulsions or when commissioned facts are resulting from fibs and fake constructions, truth may be in great peril. ( ”Blame storming”)”
― Erik Pevernagie

“One has only to set a loved human being against the fact that we are all in peril all the time to get back a sense of proportion. What does anything matter compared to the reality of love and its span, so brief at best, maintained against such odds?”
― May Sarton, Journal of a Solitude

“It was strange to realize that a dragon who couldn't be hurt on the outside could have so many ragged holes on the inside.”
― Tui T. Sutherland, Escaping Peril

“He is wretched indeed, who goes up and down in the world, without a God to take care of him, to be his guide and protector, and to bless him in his affairs [. . .] That unconverted men are without God shows that they are liable to all manner of evil [. . .] liable to the power of the devil, to the power of all manner of temptation [. . .] to be deceived and seduced into erroneous opinions [. . .] to embrace damnable doctrines [. . .] to be given up of God to judicial hardness of heart [. . .] to commit all manner of sin, and even the unpardonable sin itself. They cannot be sure they shall not commit that sin. They are liable to build up a false hope of heaven, and so to go hoping to hell [. . .] to die senseless and stupid, as many have died [. . .] to die in such a case as Saul and Judas did, fearless of hell. They have no security from it. They are liable to all manner of mischief, since they are without God. They cannot tell what shall befall them, nor when they are secure from anything. They are not safe one moment. Ten thousand fatal mischiefs may befall them, that may make them miserable forever. They, who have God for their God, are safe from all such evils. It is not possible that they should befall them. God is their covenant God, and they have his faithful promise to be their refuge.”
― Jonathan Edwards, The Works of Jonathan Edwards, 2 Volumes

“an utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

“There is no more deadly peril than disobedience;
States are devoured by it, homes laid in ruins,
Armies defeated, victory turned to rout.
White simple obedience saves the lives of hundreds
Of honest folk." - Creon”
― Sophocles, Antigone

“Đúng là tôi viết nhật kí, để đưa hiện tại của tôi ra khỏi thời gian, để ngày hôm trước được tồn tại, vĩnh viễn. Nhưng tôi bắt đầu nhận thấy sự nguy hiểm của vĩnh cửu. Đã 3 mùa trôi qua, mà hiện tại của tôi ngày một tệ hại. Sự vĩnh cửu, giống như vũng nước tù, càng vĩnh cửu càng hôi thối, càng lắm kí sinh trùng. Chính vì vậy, tôi đã xé nhật kí.”
― Trần Dần, Những ngã tư và những c��t đèn

“Now at this last we must take a hard road, a road unforeseen. There lies our hope, if hope it be. To walk into peril - to Mordor. We must send the Ring to the Fire.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

“There is a dark well in everyone...it never goes dry. But you drink from it at your own peril. That water is poison”
― Stephen King, Fairy Tale

“The vampire moved as a unit, talons extended, fangs sprung free of their houses of flesh.

They came to where the delectable smell of fresh blood was released. A quality without compare. It was as if a thousand year old bottle of wine lay breathing.

On a cold stone floor, but paces away from consumption.”
― Tamara Rose Blodgett, Blood Singers

“It breaks my heart. Better than your words, your eye tells me all your peril.
You are not yet free, you still search for freedom. Your search has fatigued you and made you too wakeful.
You long for the open heights, your soul thirsts for the stars. But your bad instincts too thirst for freedom.
Your fierce dogs long for freedom; they bark for joy in their cellar when your spirit aspires to break open all prisons.
To me you are still a prisoner who imagines freedom: ah, such prisoners of the soul become clever, but also deceitful and base.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“How easy to be electrocuted. How fine the line between beauty and peril.”
― Sara Baume, A Line Made By Walking

“I was once thought that we could all be saved, that maybe we could escape or be liberated.
But I was wrong.”
― Kaylie Fowler

“Growing up, her definition of peril was that of a dictionary definition - serious and immediate danger”
― Kaylie Fowler

“Growing up, her definition of peril was that of a dictionary - serious and immediate danger.”
― Kaylie Fowler, Perilous | Exclusive Cover Edition + The First Four Chapters

“The hawk plays with the pigeon and the pigeon is happy, but not knowing that it is playing with death.”
― Amos Tutuola, Ajaiyi and His Inherited Poverty

“For there can be a need for hateful things, and a hatred of what is, in a strange way, loved. And so a child flies to what it recognizes for recognition's sake. But to be alone in a land where nothing can be recognized, that is what he feared, and that is what he longed for. For what is exploration without peril?”
― Mervyn Peake, Boy in Darkness

“Even Damocles developed a routine.”
― Johnny Rich, The Human Script

“It was a voice that you felt you had to listen to—or you ignored at your peril.”
― Alexander McCall Smith, The Woman Who Walked in Sunshine

“Youth is like being carried through life by a strong current," Admiral Winter said. "All you feel is the speed of the river, the thrill of rapids, never comprehending your utter lack of control, your constant peril.”
― Andrea Cremer, The Turncoat's Gambit

“If there was an escape plan to be made, it had better come soon, or the entire building might become a tomb for them.”
― Jason Medina, The Manhattanville Incident: An Undead Novel

“She covered her ears with her hands and prayed they would make it out of there alive, although she knew that possibility was slipping away the longer they stayed.”
― Jason Medina, The Manhattanville Incident: An Undead Novel

“In a time when truth is very much in peril, books remain the ultimate repository of creative ideas and irreplaceable knowledge.”
― Nick Offerman

“One of my mother's favorite expressions is "Life is fraught with peril.”
― Lucia Berlin, A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories

“Take your dreams for granted at your own peril.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, The Oneironaut’s Diary

“I was afraid of so many things, I had come to realize during my traveling year. My mother seemed to have an immunity to fear, the way she hurled herself into foreign lands and the arms of men, while I was always entangled in ideas about penalties and peril.”
― Laura van den Berg, What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us: Stories

“If this accident were a wave, I did not think there would ever be a way I could learn to kiss it. Yet it was in that very place of peril, as I was dashed against a rock, that I met face to face with the Rock of Ages. Hardships can take from our life or they can add to it. Usually, they do both. Hardships produce the inky grey and black pigments which contrast upon the otherwise blank canvas of our lives. The dark, black, empty moments of life are very rarely enjoyable, but they are not worthless. In the hands of a loving God, they can and will serve a purpose.”
― Michael J Heil, Pursued: God’s relentless pursuit and a drug addict’s journey to finding purpose

“The world is indeed full of peril and in it there are many dark places. But still there is much that is fair. And though in all lands, love is now mingled with grief, it still grows, perhaps, the greater”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

“Perils?" Sairu said. "Highway robbers? Hustlers? Cads, perhaps? Pickpockets? Pestilence?" Her brows lifted, her eyes widened. "Toll gates?”
― Anne Elisabeth Stengl, Golden Daughter