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Precarious Quotes

... freedom is a conquest, always partial, always precarious, always challenged. ... the freest person is the one with the most hope.

... freedom is a conquest, always partial, always precarious, always challenged. ... the freest person is the one with the most hope.

Gabriel Marcel
Conquest, Persons, Precarious

Thought is not a gift to man but a laborious, precarious and volatile acquisition.

Jose Ortega y Gasset
Men, Acquisition, Precarious

An estimated value is a precarious measure of justice, compared with the specific thing.

William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield
Justice, Precarious, Values
"Fisher v. Prince", 3 Burr. Part IV. 1365, 1762.

Anybody who has had a great treasure has always led a precarious existence.

John Wyndham
Treasure, Existence, Precarious
John Wyndham (1951). “The Day of the Triffids”, Fawcett

And how can poetry stand up against its new conditions? Its position is perfectly precarious.

John Crowe Ransom
Ransom, Position, Precarious

At this point the theater America is in such a precarious place.

Estelle Parsons
America, Theater, Precarious

As we live our precarious lives on the brink of the void, constantly coming closer to a state of nonbeing, we are all too often aware of our fragitlity.

Iris Murdoch
Void, States, Precarious
Iris Murdoch (2002). “Nuns and Soldiers”, p.14, Penguin

Living by proxy is always a precarious expedient.

Simone de Beauvoir
Proxy, Precarious

Every moment is precious. And precarious.

Edward Abbey
Moments, Precarious
Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.27, RosettaBooks

The world is fine. Our place on it is precarious.

Eden Robinson
World, Fine, Precarious
"The Saturday Rumpus Interview With Eden Robinson". Interview With Helga Schimkat, therumpus.net. September 24, 2016.

The word I think of is precarious. I am struck by how precarious it all is. How the things that hold us are only as strong as the faith we have in them.

David Levithan
Strong, Thinking, Precarious

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