Precarious Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

Living by proxy is always a precarious expedient.

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.

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

Every moment is precious. And precarious.

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.