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“Being tame is what we're taught: ... put the crayons back, stay in line, don't talk too loud, keep your knees together, nice girls don't... As you might know, nice girls DO, and they like to feel wild and alive. Being tame feels safe, being wild, unsafe. Yet safety is an illusion anyway. We are not in control. No matter how dry and tame and nice we live, we will die. And we will suffer along the way. Living wild is its own reward.”

Knows Way Feels Matter Might Together Suffering Dies Girl Lines Nice Alive Taught Safe Illusion Safety Rewards Loud Knees Dry Unsafe Crayon Nice Girl

Author:Sark

“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.”

Giving Can Do Security Illusion Safety Going Away Safety And Security

Author:Will Smith

“We lost not only through death, but also by leaving and being left, by changing and letting go and moving on. And our losses include not only our separations and departures from those we love, but our conscious and unconscious losses of romantic dreams, impossible expectations, illusions of freedom and power, illusions of safety -- and the loss of our own younger self, the self that thought it would always be unwrinkled and invulnerable and immortal.”

“The work of adult life is not easy. As in childhood, each step presents not only new tasks of development but requires a letting go of the techniques that worked before. With each passage some magic must be given up, some cherished illusion of safety and comfortably familiar sense of self must be cast off, to allow for the greater expansion of our distinctiveness.”

Source: Passages: Predictable Crises of Adult Life

“Affairs can be powerful detonators. They can invigorate a marriage that's flat, jolt people out of years of complacency. Fear of loss rekindles desire, makes people have conversations they haven't had in years, takes them out of their contrived illusion of safety.”

People Years Desire Loss Powerful Havens Conversation Illusion Safety Affair Flats Complacency

Author:Esther Perel

“I think that America is in danger of losing its adventurous spirit in the cause of some kind of illusion of safety, or substitute of law and order there.”

Thinking Kind America Law Spirit Order Causes Danger Losing Illusion Safety Substitutes Adventurous Law And Order Adventurous Spirit

Author:Jerry Garcia

“Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark. Nobody knows what is going to happen to him from one moment to the next, or how one will bear it. This is irreducible. And it's true of everybody. Now, it is true that the nature of society is to create, among its citizens, an illusion of safety; but it is also absolutely true that the safety is always necessarily an illusion. Artists are here to disturb the peace.”

Knows Matter Moments Happens Artist Next Dark Bears Citizens Walking Illusion No Matter What Safety Nobody Knows Whistling Walking In The Dark

Author:James A. Baldwin

“Safety is an illusion, Costis. A Thief might fall at any time, and eventually the day must come when the god will let him. Whether I am on a rafter three stories up or on a staircase three steps up, I am in my god's hands. He will keep me safe, or he will not, here or on the stairs.”

Stories Hands Might Fall Three Steps Safe Illusion Safety Gods Will Thieves Stairs Step Up Staircases Rafters King Of Attolia

Author:Megan Whalen Turner

“safety and love are both illusions!”

Illusion And Love Safety

Book:Liar's Game

Source: Liar's Game

“Living is a risk," I snapped at him. "Every decision, every interaction, every step, every time you get out of bed in the morning, you take a risk. To survive is to know you're taking that risk and to not get out of bed clutching illusions of safety.”

Knows Decision Steps Morning Risk Bed Illusion Safety Interaction Every Step

Book:The Study Series Bundle: Poison Study\Assassin Study\Magic Study\Fire Study

Source: The Study Series Bundle: Poison Study\Assassin Study\Magic Study\Fire Study

“Routine feeds the illusion of safety.”

Illusion Safety Routine

Author:Christopher Moore

“When you want to take over a city, you have to destroy the illusion of safety it provides. You have to hit the large well-protected establishments, find the powerful people who run them and are viewed as invincible, and kill them. You want to destroy the morale first. Once the people's resolve is gone and everyone is scared for their own skin, the city is yours.”

People Want Firsts Wells Running Powerful Cities Gone Illusion Skins Safety Scared Resolve Establishment Protected Invincible Morale Magic Bleeds

Author:Ilona Andrews

“There were times when the fact of impending death seemed as palpable as the bed they lay on, and they would cling together with a sort of despairing sensuality, like a damned soul grasping at his last morsel of pleasure when the clock is within five minutes of striking. But there were also times when they had the illusion not only of safety but of permanence.”

Soul Facts Together Lasts Pleasure Five Minutes Bed Illusion Safety Lays Sensuality Clock Five Minutes Grasping Permanence Damned Souls Impending Death

Book:The Complete Novels of George Orwell: Animal Farm, Burmese Days, A Clergyman's Daughter, Coming Up for Air, Keep the Aspidistra Flying, Nineteen Eighty-Four

Source: The Complete Novels of George Orwell: Animal Farm, Burmese Days, A Clergyman's Daughter, Coming Up for Air, Keep the Aspidistra Flying, Nineteen Eighty-Four

“Don't take shadows too seriously. Reality is your only safety. Continue to reject illusion.”

Reality Illusion Shadow Safety Rejects

Book:Critical Perspectives on Wole Soyinka

Source: Critical Perspectives on Wole Soyinka

“Plato spoke of the necessity for divine madness in the poet. It is a frightening thing to open oneself to this strange and dark side of the divine; it means letting go our sane self control, that control which gives us the illusion of safety. But safety is only an illusion, and letting it go is part of listening to the silence, and to the spirit.”

Giving Mean Self Spirit Sides Dark Silence Divine Strange Poet Listening Letting Go Illusion Madness Safety Oneself Spokes Sane Frightening Self Control Plato Let It Go Dark Side

Author:Madeleine L'Engle

“The seduction of safety is always more dangerous than the illusion of uncertainty.”

Dangerous Illusion Safety Uncertainty Seduction

Author:Robin Sharma

“Not so deep down, we all know that safety is an illusion, that only character melds us together. That’s why most of us do everything we can (healthy and unhealthy) to ward off that real feeling of standing alone so close to the edge of the world.”

Knows World Real Character Feelings Together Healthy Illusion Standing Safety Edges Deep Down Unhealthy Standing Alone Real Feelings Edge Of The World

Book:How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America

Source: How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America