60 Intriguing Danger Quotes

In the tapestry of human experience, danger has always held a special fascination. It beckons with both the thrill of adventure and the shadows of risk, compelling us to confront the unknown and the unpredictable. Throughout history, writers, thinkers, and adventurers have grappled with the concept of danger, encapsulating its many facets in words that inspire, caution, and provoke thought. Our curated collection offers a selection of the top 60 intriguing danger quotes, showcasing the power and allure that this complex theme holds over our imaginations. Whether it's the subtle risk of a new endeavor or the adrenaline-fueled intensity of a life on the edge, these quotes capture the essence of living with boldness and awareness. Prepare to dive into the myriad reflections on danger and let these words ignite your spirit of adventure and contemplation.

1. “One cannot answer for his courage when he has never been in danger.” - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

2. “Each child’s story is worthy of telling. There shouldn’t be a sliding scale of death. The weight of it is crushing.” - Anderson Cooper

3. “Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers,but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, butfor the heart to conquer it.” - Rabindranath Tagore

4. “An errand is getting a tank of gas or picking up a carton of milk or something. It is not getting chased by flying purple pyromaniac gorillas hurling incendiary poo!” - Jim Butcher

5. “Almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.” - Robert A. Heinlein

6. “How dare you open a spaceman's helmet on an uncharted planet? My eyeballs could've been sucked from their sockets!” - Cathy East Dubowski

7. “Station is the paradox of the world of my people, the limitation of our power within the hunger for power. It is gained through treachery and invites treachery against those who gain it. Those most powerful in Menzoberranzan spend their days watching over their shoulders, defending against the daggers that would find their backs. Their deaths usually come from the front." -Drizzt Do'Urden” - R.A. Salvatore

8. “Personally, I say, "Out of the frying pan and into the deadly pit filled with sharks who are wielding chainsaws with killer kittens stapled to them." However, that one's having a rough time catching on.” - Brandon Sanderson

9. “I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love.” - Leo Tolstoy

10. “The desert and the ocean are realms of desolation on the surface.The desert is a place of bones, where the innards are turned out, to desiccate into dust.The ocean is a place of skin, rich outer membranes hiding thick juicy insides, laden with the soup of being.Inside out and outside in. These are worlds of things that implode or explode, and the only catalyst that determines the direction of eco-movement is the balance of water.Both worlds are deceptive, dangerous. Both, seething with hidden life.The only veil that stands between perception of what is underneath the desolate surface is your courage.Dare to breach the surface and sink.” - Vera Nazarian

11. “I must be in love with this woman, Sumire realized with a start. Nomistake about it. Ice is cold; roses are red; I'm in love. And thislove is about to carry me off somewhere. This current's toooverpowering; I don't have any choice. It may very well be a specialplace, some place I've never seen before. Danger may be lurkingthere, something that may end up wounding me deeply, fatally. I mightend up losing everything. But there's no turning back. I can only gowith the flow. Even if it means I'll be burned up, gone forever.” - Haruki Murakami

12. “You're not going to tell me they built fifty-foot-high killer golems, are you?""Only a man would think of that.It's our job," said Moist. "If you don't think of fifty-foot-high killer golems first, someone else will.” - Terry Pratchett

13. “Most people would look at an animal in a cage and instinctively feel that it should be set free. . . . It's a dangerous world out there, filled with predators. . . . What would you prefer? A comfortable, safe, warm, cosy life in a cage, or an uncertain life of freedom.” - Scarlett Thomas

14. “James gave the huffle of a snail in danger. And nobody heard him at all.” - A.A. Milne

15. “You can't prepare for everything life's going to throw at you. And you can't avoid danger. It's there. The world is a dangerous place, and if you sit around wringing your hands about it, you'll out on all the adventure.” - Jeannette Walls

16. “Laziness and cowardice are the reasons why so great a portion of mankind, after nature has long since discharged them from external direction (naturaliter maiorennes), nevertheless remains under lifelong tutelage, and why it is so easy for others to set themselves up as their guardians. It is so easy not to be of age. If I have a book which understands for me, a pastor who has a conscience for me, a physician who decides my diet, and so forth, I need not trouble myself. I need not think, if I can only pay - others will easily undertake the irksome work for me.That the step to competence is held to be very dangerous by the far greater portion of mankind...” - Immanuel Kant

17. “I took the sleeper out of Glasgow, and as the smelly old train bumped out of Central Station and across the Jamaica Street Bridge, I stared out at the orange halogen streetlamps reflected in the black water of the river Clyde. I gazed at the crumbling Victorian buildings that would soon be sandblasted and renovated into yuppie hutches. I watched the revelers and rascals traverse the shiny wet streets. I thought of the thrill and danger of my youth and the fear and frustration of my adult life thus far. I thought of the failure of my marriage and my failures as a man. I saw all this through my reflection in the nighttime window. Down the tracks I went, hardly aware that I was going further south with every passing second.” - Craig Ferguson

18. “In like manner, if I let myself believe anything on insufficient evidence, there may be no great harm done by the mere belief; it may be true after all, or I may never have occasion to exhibit it in outward acts. But I cannot help doing this great wrong towards Man, that I make myself credulous. The danger to society is not merely that it should believe wrong things, though that is great enough; but that it should become credulous, and lose the habit of testing things and inquiring into them; for then it must sink back into savagery.” - William Kingdon Clifford

19. “It is dangerous to exist in the world. To exist is to be threatened. We must live with threats.” - Adam Levin

20. “It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.” - Thomas Jefferson

21. “Could be. I’m a pretty dangerous dude when I’m cornered.”“Yeah,” said the voice from under the table, “you go to pieces so fast people get hit by the shrapnel.” - Douglas Adams

22. “To venture ... close (to a lion) on foot ... would mean the sudden shattering of any kindly belief that the similarity of the lion and the pussy cat goes much beyond their whiskers. But then, since men still live by the sword, it's a little optimistic to expect the lion to withdraw his claws, handicapped as he is by his inability to read our better effusions about the immorality of bloodshed.” - Beryl Markham

23. “That is why embittered people find heroes and madmen a perennial source of fascination, for they have no fear of life or death. Both heroes and madmen are indifferent to danger and will forge ahead regardless of what other people say.” - Paulo Coelho

24. “I am trying like Klee, to create something that will have a life of its own, that can put me in real danger, a danger which I willingly take on myself.” - William S. Burroughs

25. “She could hear the rattle of hooves on stone evolve into a thunder of pursuit.” - Cinda Williams Chima

26. “And there is nothing more dangerous in this world, in any world, than someone calm, clear and angry.” - Audrey Hart

27. “Still, he figured, sometimes you've got to do what you've got to do, and then sometimes you've just got to run like hell after it's done.” - Derek Landy

28. “Yes, the stories are dangerous, she was right. A book is a magic carpet that flies you off elsewhere. A book is a door. You open it. You step through. Do you come back?” - Jeanette Winterson

29. “(I) only write it now because I have grown to believe that there is no dangerous idea, which does not become less dangerous when written out in sincere and careful English. ("The Adoration of The Magi")” - W.B. Yeats

30. “Their faith in him is at once touching and alarming -- their trust that they are safe simply because he's with them, as if an adult presence warded of all possible threat, emanated an unbreachable forcefield.” - Paul Murray

31. “All about us were people. Perhaps a hundred. Men. Experience had taught me that humans were cruelest when segregated by sex, and the cold feeling in the pit of my stomach became led. What had I let myself in for?” - C.S. Friedman

32. “Previous journeys had taught me the danger of taking too much stuff.” - Tahir Shah

33. “I was no longer troubled when he pulled out a machete in a crowded bar, tried to pick up schoolgirls, or threatened to scalp us, then rip off our heads and scoop out our brains.” - Tahir Shah

34. “The inertia of a jungle village is a dangerous thing. Before you know it your whole life has slipped by and you are still waiting there.” - Tahir Shah

35. “He rarely smoked, but once in a while, like now, when his world had been shaken, his woman nearly killed in front of his eyes, and he’d watched a house consume a man and spit him out, he figured a drag or two were appropriate.” - Christine Feehan

36. “Stop putting yourself in danger. Stop trying to handle everything yourself instead of trusting me to help you.” His gaze wandered, too, lingering on her mouth, her hair, even her breasts, leaving tingling sensations everywhere it touched. Shadows moved along his jaw as muscles tensed. “Stop making me crazy, Janet.” - Starr Ambrose

37. “Cheap little rhymesA cheap little tuneAre sometimes as dangerousAs a sliver of the moon.” - Langston Hughes

38. “Danger is the snack food of a true sleuth.” - Mac Barnett

39. “He is a man, I think," he said, "who cares for nothing but a joke. He is a dangerous man."Lambert laughed in the act of lifting some macaroni to his mouth."Dangerous!" he said. "You don't know little Quin, sir!""Every man is dangerous," said the old man, without moving, "Who cares only for one thing. I was once dangerous myself.” - G.K. Chesterton

40. “If want a person wants is his life, he tends to be quiet about wanting anything else.” - Ann Patchett

41. “It's been my experience that those people who seem the most 'normal' are in fact the most dangerous.” - Jacqueline West

42. “You’re not leaving. I told you that.” She worked to keep the calm in her tone to counter his fury. “I’m going to shoot.” “It’s time to put your gun down, Noah.” “His blood will be on you.” Rook made eye contact with her and mouthed, Shoot. Him. She had no shot and said so with the smallest head shake.” - Richard Castle

43. “- “How about flipping a coin;” she made a pretty remark and the two women turned around andlooked at her irritated.- “That's right, go ahead, jock about it. You are not the one trying to change her heart, I am, and youknow damn well how painful that can be!”Sand of Passion” - Georgia Kakalopoulou

44. “Besides, I am staying in a luxurious hotel, not in some slum!”.Sand of Passion” - Georgia Kakalopoulou

45. “There will be danger; some of you may not live to complete your lessons. It's a risk you take. This world is bigger than you and it will go on, regardless.” - Nnedi Okorafor

46. “Laughing in the face of danger doesn't negate the fear, it simply enables you to smile at it.” - Richelle E. Goodrich

47. “In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous.” - Robert G. Ingersoll

48. “To exist, the triangle demands three complementary elements: love, power and danger. Mixed incautiously, these elements, like those in physics, are volatile and potentially explosive.” - Ruth Harris

49. “You can't do that kind of thing normally, but normal dumped without a note nearly a month ago. These days, I'll happily set fire to a bridge the second after I've crossed it - I don't plan on being around for the consequences to catch up with me.” - D.D. Barant

50. “I know some women go in for excitement and danger. It must make them feel more alive. It's my professional judgment that you're a dangerous man.” - Margaret Way

51. “Davanti al pericolo si ragiona cattivo.” - Mauro Corona

52. “I have chosen a life that depends on one’s awareness that every breath may be his last, every step may bring his downfall, and every word may stir betrayal. In truth, I must live in conscious ignorance of the mere thread that holds my life aloft, trusting that God alone has the power to sever it, and that He will do so only when my work on earth is complete.” - Nicole Sager

53. “The fiery tickle of outrage burned up her throat. “How the hell would you know that when you never gave me a chance?”Something dark and scorching flickered behind his eyes. “Because no other girl has ever made me want to forget all my own rules for them.” - Airicka Phoenix

54. “A soft mist blew around them. Raindrops glistened in his hair, shimmering under the pale glow of the light post. His eyes were shadowed beneath wispy fringes, but the silver in them glinted like pools of liquid mercury. Her breath caught. It must have made a sound because his fingers tightened. His shaky exhale whispered across her face.“This,” he whispered so quietly she almost didn’t hear him. “Is why you are so bad for me.” - Airicka Phoenix

55. “His eyes were twin flakes of ember floating into the night from a roaring inferno. “I won’t let anything happen to you. No matter what I have to do, I will keep you safe.” - Airicka Phoenix

56. “Courage is the antidote to danger.” - Erle Stanley Gardner

57. “Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity; wherever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable.” - Earl Nightingale

58. “If its danger you seek, come on over. I covet tranquility but beget the tempest storm.” - Donna Lynn Hope

59. “Chase asks her what time the appointment is booked for. Rachel says, "It's at 11:30 or midnight. He's supposed to call to confirm." She checks her cell. "But I want to be there early." she says."Why?""Just to be on the safe side.""There isn't one, Rachel.” - Joe McGinniss Jr.

60. “It is the business of the future to be dangerous; and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties.” - Alfred North Whitehead