He felt a lack of security. No place existed in all the world that could be called safe, and he knew for the first time in his life that there had never been any such thing as safety, and never would be, the difference being that now he knew it as a fact, whereas before it was a natural unconscious state.
More Quotes from Alan Sillitoe:
With eleven pints of beer and seven small gins playing hide-and-seek inside his stomach, he fell from the top-most stair to the bottom.Alan Sillitoe
Everybody thinks they'll never get married at your age. You think you can go on all your life being single, but you suddenly find out that you can't.
Alan Sillitoe
The loneliness of the long-distance runner.
Alan Sillitoe
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: Facts Quotes, Safety Quotes, Security Quotes, World QuotesI don't care whether people like me or dislike me. I'm not on earth to win a popularity contest. I'm here to be the best human being I possibly can be.
Tab Hunter
From heresy, frenzy and jealousy, good Lord deliver me.
Ludovico Ariosto
I used to be indecisive but now I am not quite sure.
Tommy Cooper