Illusory Safety Quotes

And the most dangerous place on earth - Is where you’re safe.

Like the ostrich, head under wingWhen the roaring storm breaks,So many people take refugeUnder the soft pillowOf specious arguments.

For a moment he felt a wild hope: perhaps this really was a nightmare. Perhaps he would awake in his own bed, bathed in sweat, shaking, maybe even crying . . . but alive. Safe. Then he pushed the thought away. Its charm was deadly, its comfort fatal.

'Safety', the wife of Pablo said. 'There is no such thing as safety. There are so many seeking safety here now that they make a great danger. In seeking safety now you lose all.'

Beware of what you do best; its bound to be a trap.

Scare answers to scare, and force begets force, until at length it comes to be seen that we are racing one against another after a phantom security which continually vanishes as we approach.

What looked safe was not safe. What looked hard and unsafe was probably safer. Anyway, safe was somewhere else in the world.

Beware of the truth, gentle Sister. Although much sought after, truth can be dangerous to the seeker. Myths and reassuring lies are much easier to find and believe. If you find a truth, even a temporary one, it can demand that you make painful changes. Conceal your truths within words. Natural ambiguity will protect you then.

Anything can go away. There's no such thing as safety and security. You can do things that give you the illusion of safety and security, but there's really no such thing.

We are never more in danger than when we think ourselves most secure, nor in reality more secure than when we seem to be most in danger.

Those who think themselves secure are more exposed to danger than any others. The armor-bearer of sin is self-confidence .

It is almost a guarantee that in the pursuit of security you will become more insecure. Inherent in the quest for security is its undoing.

Nothing is more fallacious than wealth. It is a hostile comrade, a domestic enemy.

Average feels safe but it's not. It's invisible.

He's mad that trusts in the tameness of a wolf.

The more secure we feel against our liability to any error to which, in fact, we are liable, the greater must be our danger of falling into it.

For though we are perpetually bragging of it as our safety, it is nothing but a poor fringe on the mantle of the upper.

I give you bitter pills, in a sugar coating. The pills are harmless - the poison's in the sugar