Real danger is nothing more than just living. Of course, living is merely the chaos of existence, but more than that it's a crazy mixed-up business of dismantling existence instant by instant to the point where the original chaos is restored, and taking strength from the uncertainty and the fear that chaos brings to re-create existence instant by instant. You won't find another job as dangerous as that. There isn't any fear in existence itself, or any uncertainty, but living creates it.
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Related It is cognition that is the fantasy.... Everything I tell you now is mere words. Arrange them and re... HARUKI MURAKAMI The individual appears for an instant, joins the community of thought, modifies it and dies; but the... A.S. BYATT Generality is, indeed, an indispensable ingredient of reality; for mere individual existence or actu... CHARLES SANDERS PEIRCE Cherish your existence, for memories become legacies and life can change in an instant. ROSS CALIGIURI In this instant of danger they realized they were each other's reason for living, and into this inst... ANAïS NIN I think we prefer to go to instant check on an immediate basis and try to accelerate implementing in... NEWT GINGRICH It’s a lack of clarity that creates chaos and frustration. Those emotions are poison to any living... STEVE MARABOLI Humanity needs dreams to be able to survive the miseries of daily existence, even if only for an ins... OSCAR NIEMEYER If circumstances are always the rulers, the shallow existence of instant gratification will keep us ... CLAUDIA SIMON I am not a logician. I am an existentialist. I believe in this meaningless, beautiful chaos of exist... BHAGWAN SHREE RAJNEESH Man does not simply exist but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become the nex... VIKTOR E. FRANKL It bombarded her with instant pleasure, instant pain and instant arousal, fact and fiction all mixed... RUTH HARRIS Choice is the basis of every part of your existence, but so is fear. The difference is, choice creat... RéNé GAUDETTE There is absolutely no worse death curse than the humdrum daily existence of the living dead. ANTHON ST. MAARTEN To say nothing of its holiness or authority, the Bible contains more specimens of genius and taste t... WALTER S. LANDOR No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any righ... FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any righ... FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT You get to a point where the kind of beautiful chaos can't really fuel your creative existence a... KAKI KING Living in a small studio or in a substandard apartment in Europe is better than living in a country ... ALEXANDRE GALLEY What is an "instant" death anyway? How long is an instant? Is it one second? Ten? The pain of those ... JOHN GREEN Passionate living is the joy of existence. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but... MAYA ANGELOU And what is an "instant" death anyway? How long is an instant? Is itone second? Ten? The pain of tho... JOHN GREEN The science which teacheth arts and handicrafts is merely science for the gaining of a living; but t... THOMAS HOBBES But we know that freedom cannot be served by the devices of the tyrant. 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PEGGY NOONAN Every time we sin, it causes chaos in our lives; maybe not at that very moment, but eventually it al... ROBIN BERTRAM She brings a lot of energy, which is one thing that you like from a kid coming off the bench. She's ... BRIAN GIORGIS I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but... MAYA ANGELOU Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both exist... SENECA Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both exist... LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA The sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural and wonderful existence. It is nothing bu... JULES VERNE No fear. A fitting epitaph, more curse than blessing, the truth of their very existence. CINDY SKAGGS It is living and ceasing to live that are imaginary solutions. Existence is elsewhere. 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TOM ROBBINS You get rid of the fear of death by understanding that it is an integral fact of our existence. You ... G. GORDON LIDDY Chaos is what we've lost touch with. This is why it is given a bad name. It is feared by the dominan... TERENCE MCKENNA Death is an unsurpassable limit of human existence...We discover the relationship which is the basis... MEDARD BOSS This is part of the involuntary bargain we make with the world just by being alive. We get to experi... JEFF GREENFIELD A child's mind is its living room; it's going to be residing there for the rest of its earth... TOM ROBBINS The unrest which keeps the never-stopping clock metaphysics going is the thought that the non-existe... WILLIAM JAMES The first moments of sleep are an image of death; a hazy torpor grips our thoughts and it becomes im... GERARD DE NERVAL That human life must be some kind of mistake is sufficiently proved by the simple observation that m... ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER It is reserved for man alone to find his very existence questionable, to experience the whole dubiou... VICTOR FRANKL Question with boldness even the existence of God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of ... THOMAS JEFFERSON Forever [is] so many different things. It is always changing... it is twenty minutes, or a hundred y... SARAH DESSEN True stability is the balance of chaos and control, fear is the insecurity to find it…. N. S. COLE It just amazes me that AOL can be so intransigent, ... AOL's Instant Messenger is the industry stand... DAVID STROM It just amazes me that AOL can be so intransigent. AOL Instant Messenger is the industry standard. I... DAVID STROM Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve o... THOMAS JEFFERSON If one asks the whence derives the authority of fundamental ends, since they cannot be stated and ju... ALBERT EINSTEIN The greatest mystery of existence is existence itself. DEEPAK CHOPRA In this age of globalization, instant real time media and television, everyone all over the world re... JOHN OLVER Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena. WILHELM REICH Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always livi... NORMAN MAILER Every moment of one’s existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always li... NORMAN MAILER What is more, in fact, we very soon look upon the world as something whose non-existence is not only... ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER There is probably no more terrible instant of enlightenment than the one in which you discover your ... FRANK HERBERT It became clear to me in an instant that living a gay life without publicly acknowledging it is simp... ZACHARY QUINTO Grandpa Sereno: "There is nothing as dangerous as fear, fear of people who are different than you. <... SIPPORAH JOSEPH As a restaurateur, my job is to basically control the chaos and the drama. There's always going ... ROCCO DISPIRITO Both the mentally healthy and the neurotic are driven by the need to find an answer [to the problem ... ERICH FROMM The immeasurable daily act of living out your dreams is the only existence you should strive for; Li... SCOTTIE SOMERS A person of large dreams does not allow other people’s opinion to damper his or her zestfulness. O... KILROY J. OLDSTER The real question is why is there “being”? The existence of existence is amazing, awesome. GERALD SCHROEDER Just as humans have a prior right to existence over dogs by virtue of being more highly evolved and ... VALERIE SOLANIS He brought us instant stature, instant integrity, instant quality that ... defined the early struggl... ROONE ARLEDGE The end is the matter! A step to the end is a factor! ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH As long as I stared at the clock, at least the world remained in motion. Not a very consequential wo... HARUKI MURAKAMI To be just, that is to say, to justify its existence, criticism should be partial, passionate and po... CHARLES BAUDELAIRE If you are a finger, your honesty is the hand to make your existence worth living. MUNIA KHAN We are biological creatures. We are born, we live, we die. There is no transcendent purpose to exist... JONATHAN SACKS Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always ... NORMAN MAILER Whoever looks into himself as into vast space and carries galaxies in himself, also knows how irregu... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE It seemed a ruse that fear of death should be the sole motivation for living and, yet, to quell this... ASHIM SHANKER In fact, the balance wheel which maintains in motion the watch of metaphysics that never runs down, ... ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Writing is a solitary existence. Making a movie is controlled chaos - thousands of moving parts and ... DAN BROWN People whose history and future were threatened each day by extinction considered that it was only b... MAYA ANGELOU You say that love is nonsense....I tell you it is no such thing. For weeks and months it is a stea... HENRY ADAMS You say that love is nonsense....I tell you it is no such thing. For weeks and months it is a steady... HENRY BROOKS ADAMS What goes on inside is just too fast and huge and all interconnected for words to do more than barel... DAVID FOSTER WALLACE From a human point of view, out bodily existence is a fairytale. At any rate, to the inhabitants of ... CLAMP You can add visual interest to any room with a chair rail and baseboard to create the instant feelin... DOUG BUCHER There are moments of existence when time and space are more profound, and the awareness of existence... CHARLES BAUDELAIRE All greatness of character is dependent on individuality. The man who has no other existence than th... JAMES F. COOPER All greatness of character is dependent on individuality. The man who has no other existence than t... JAMES FENIMORE COOPER
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