31 Quotes About Recklessness

A society oblivious to moderation, in time causes its own downfall.

Sometimes snakes can’t slough. They can’t burst their old skin. Then they go sick and die inside the old skin, and nobody ever sees the new pattern. It needs a real desperate recklessness to burst your old skin at last. You simply don’t care what happens to you, if you rip yourself in two, so long as you do get out.

If used wildly all power is poison.

Power and recklessness are a dangerous combination.

This is the problem with the population, everybody wants all the freedom in the world, but none of the responsibility that goes along with it. And such a society is no more advanced than a bunch of cave people.

A marriage of two independent and equally irritable intelligences seems to me reckless to the point of insanity.

You," Seven pronounced, "are a train wreck of sexual history."But this is inaccurate. A runaway train is an accident. Me, I'll jump in front of the tracks. I'll even tie myself down in front of the speeding engine. There's some illogical part of me that still believes if you want Superman to show up, first there's got to be someone worth saving.

Recklessness comes from ego. Fearlessness comes from letting go.

I feel the familiar pull—I am drawn, Icarus to his sun. I have been burned already, and yet here I am again.~Anastasia