Tanith Lee Quotes

I don't take things for granted, because everything feels more fragile. It's made me wonder about mortality and how long you've got somebody in the world. I'm more fearful than I used to be.

So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some.

I have drunken deep of joy, And I will taste no other wine tonight.

I do have a sense of displacement as constant instability - the uninterrupted existence of everything that I love and care about is not guaranteed at all. I wait for catastrophes.

The great risk of being alive is always that something can happen to you - or to someone you dearly love - at any moment.

I'll tell them that on bad mornings, it feels impossible to take pleasure in anything because I'm afraid it could be taken away.

I mean putting yourself out there in the way of overwhelming happiness and knowing you're also putting yourself in the way of terrible harm. I'm scared to be this happy. I'm scared to be this extreme.

I was also ready to believe, though, that whatever good things I had managed to set upright could topple at any second.

I do think awful things may happen at any moment, so while they are not happening, you may as well be pleased.

Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails.

Even the closest relationships that I have I know could potentially fall away. That's not to speak pessimistically or negatively about those relationships. In a weird way, it's the opposite. I value them.

Every relationship is just so tenuous and precarious.

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.

Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.

I'm so happy with my family, my career and my friends, and I'd like for them to be here forever, so I guess loss is what scares me the most.

I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described.

Winning had become kind of automatic, but I realized in 2008 that at any moment that could be taken away from me.

All human things Of dearest value hang on slender strings.

Sometimes, it is precisely when you discover that you are living very happily that you suddenly find yourself in danger. To be happy means to discover that you are exposed to being hurt.

Romantic love can be terrifying. We experience another human being as enormously important to us. So there is surrender - not a surrender to the other person so much as to our feeling for the other person. What is the obstacle? The possibility of loss.

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

I don't think I'm invincible.

Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.

I realise how precious life is, probably because I've seen how it can be taken away.