Jeanette Winterson Quotes About Risk

Quotes about: Risk

• To me, life, for all its privations, is a luminous thing. You have to risk it.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Risk, Luminous, Risk It

• What you risk reveals what you value.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Risk, Literature, Take A Chance

  Jeanette Winterson (2007). “The Passion”, p.43, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

• There is no discovery without risk and what you risk reveals what you value.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Discovery, Risk, Values

• You play, you win, you play, you lose. You play. It’s the playing that’s irresistible. Dicing from one year to the next with the things you love, what you risk reveals what you value.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Love, Winning, Years

  Jeanette Winterson (2007). “The Passion”, p.43, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

• ...to live differently, to love differently, to think differently, or to try to. Is the danger of beauty so great that it is better to live without it (the standard model)? Or to fall into her arms fire to fire? There is no discovery without risk and what you risk reveals what you value. Inside the horror of Nagasaki and Hiroshima lies the beauty of Einstein's E=MC squared

  Jeanette Winterson

  Lying, Fall, Thinking

• I have noticed that doing the sensible thing is only a good idea when the decision is quite small. For the life-changing things, you must risk it.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Life Changing, Ideas, Decision

• The tamer my love, the farther away it is from love. In fierceness, in heat, in longing, in risk, I find something of love's nature. In my desire for you, I burn at the right temperature to walk through love's fire. So when you ask me why I cannot love you more calmly, I answer that to love you calmly is not to love you at all.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Love You, Fire, Risk

• Louise, I would gladly fire the past for you, go and not look back. I have been reckless before, never counting the cost, oblivious to the cost. Now, I've done the sums ahead. I know what it will mean to redeem myself from the accumulations of a lifetime. I know and I don't care. You set before me a space uncluttered by association. It might be a void or it might be a release. Certainly I want to take the risk. I want to take the risk because the life I have stored up is going mouldy.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Mean, Past, Space

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