Daniel Handler Quotes

There will always be something to ruin our lives, it all depends on what or which finds us first. We are always ripe and ready to be taken.

He was living in an age much more dangerous, more painful, much more on the edge than our own particular age.

Nobody is impervious to misfortune.

Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.

Who can love to walk in the dark? But providence doth often so dispose.

Bad things happen, and you can only be so prepared.

In everybody's life, there is love, there is sorrow, there is melancholy. And there might be danger as well.

When the sun is shining, think of the time it won't be, because even when you're sitting in your house with the doors shut, misfortune can fall from above. Page 279

You've got to bear it in mind that nobody that ever lived is specially privileged; the axe can fall at any moment, on any neck, without any warning or any regard for justice.

Adventure is nothing but a romantic name for trouble.

The bravest men are subject most to chance.

All life is a struggle in the dark.

…there was no more safety to be found in love than there was to be found in a virus.

I'm afraid. I know L. I don't want you to get hurt. I won't. What if you do. I'll wait for you. Even if I'm dark? Even if you're very very dark.

Death and disaster are at our shoulders every second of our lives, trying to get at us. Missing, a lot of the time. A lot of miles on the motorway without a front wheel blow-out. A lot of viruses that slither through our bodies without snagging. A lot of pianos that fall a minute after we've passed. Or a month, it makes no difference. So unless we're going to get down on our knees and give thanks every time disaster misses, it makes no sense to moan when it strikes.

Adventures are only interesting once you've lived to see the end of them. Before that, they are nothing but fear, and being too cold or too hot or too wet or too hungry, and getting hurt.

A man rarely knows the day and hour when he will die. I could be killed any moment and there's not a blasted thing I can do about it.

If fate is a shape-shifter, then loves is too. It can be, anyway, in its most dangerous form. It´s your best day and then your worst. It´s your most hope and then you most despair. Lightness, darkness, it can swing between extremes at lightning speed- a boat upon the water on the most dangerous day, and then the clouds crawl in and the sky turns black and the sea rages and the boat is lost.

The world is indeed full of peril and in it there are many dark places.

Love is like trench warfare - you cannot see the enemy, but you know he is there and that it is wiser to keep your head down.

Luck's a chance, but trouble's sure.

I thought I had reached a point in life where everything would be smooth. But it is not. It just gets more jagged and pitted and filled with turns that take you into the dark recesses of your mind. It never seems to get easy.

Our condition as men is risky and ticklish enough. One can not be sure of himself and his fortune an hour, but he may be whisked off into some pitiable or ridiculous plight.

No man can ever be secure until he has been forsaken by Fortune.

Everyone has a choice. (Kiara) No, princess, they don’t. Choices aren’t always up to us. Life and circumstances can shred even the stoutest soul. No matter how pure and untainted you think you are, I promise you that you, too, can be shoved into the darkness, just like we were. (Syn)