“There comes a point when you need to get over the fear and get on with your life, and a lot of people don’t seem to be capable of that anymore. From blood tests to gated communities, we have embraced the cult of fear, and now we don’t seem to know how to put it back where it belongs.”
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Anxious Quotes — page 106 of 107
“The people who have the power want you scared. They want you walking around paralyzed by the notion that you could die at any moment.”
“Sam was starting to feel anxious. Nutella and noodles were fine. Great in fact. Miraculous. But he'd been hoping for more food more water more medicine something. It was absurdly like Christmas morning when he was little: hoping for something he couldn't even put a name to. A game changer. Something...amazing.”
“The only thing I'm afraid of is bees. I don't like bees. I'm allergic to them.”
“I'm way too disorganized.”
“I have not spent years in therapy; I tried therapy in my mid-twenties, and it did not go very well. I just thought, 'This is so not for me. I would rather talk to one of my girlfriends.' I'm not at a point in my life when I'm analyzing too much. I have young children, and I'm just pretty much crazed.”
“You know how a lot of people say they could go crazy? Well, I feel I live very close to that line.”
“I've spent many a day worrying that I will never be able to write again!”
“I was probably 34 when I got my first on-camera acting job, and it was through a friend of mine, who was working as a writer on the show, and I've never been more frightened in my life.”
“I had no idea that, when you audition for television or movies, you go to a big building - like, an office building - and you walk in the room, and everybody, I assumed, was smarter than me and better than me, and there's actors you recognize. I once fainted at an audition.”
“I can't emphasize the immediate panic that would set in when I had to audition. I can't believe I did it.”
“I didn't get my licence because I wasn't allowed to. But I haven't had a seizure for a long time so I could, theoretically, get my licence. But I'm now just so used to not driving, I'm scared of what I'd do.”
“When you're making any movie, you have your hopes and expectations - but reality doesn't always conform with your hopes and expectations.”
“Let's do what you fear most That from which you recoil But which still makes your eyes moist”
“I can't tell the difference between wrong and right, are you laughing at me?”
“I don't think secrets agree with me, I feel rumpled up in mind since you told me that.”
“I attempt all day, at work, not to think about what lies ahead, but this costs me so much effort that there is nothing left for my work. I handle telephone calls so badly that after a while the switchboard operator refuses to connect me. So I had better say to myself, Go ahead and polish the silverware beautifully, then lay it out ready on the sideboard and be done with it. Because I polish it in my mind all day long—this is what torments me (and doesn't clean the silver).”
“When you're a mom, you learn about fear. You're always afraid. Always. About everything from cupboard doors to kidnappers to weather.”
“I feel like I veer more away from technology than toward it. I'm a little scared of the direction we're going, to be honest. It feels like a sci-fi novel from the '50s, the way we can control everything and the solitude we each have in our own little bubbles, and yet we feel like we have social interactions. We're moving in a weird direction, at least.”
“In fear I hurried this way and that. I had the taste of blood and chocolate in my mouth, the one as hateful as the other.”