“I am quite sure I am more afraid of people who are themselves terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.”
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Anxious Quotes — page 13 of 107
“It is a strange thing, but when you are dreading something, and would give anything to slow down time, it has a disobliging habit of speeding up.”
“I don't know anybody that's not emotionally unstable or schizophrenic.”
“Having wandered some distance among gloomy rocks, I came to the entrance of a great cavern ... Two contrary emotions arose in me: fear and desire--fear of the threatening dark cavern, desire to see whether there were any marvelous things in it.”
“The more wary you are of danger, the more likely you are to meet it.”
“Fear begins and ends with the desire to be secure; inward and outward security, with the desire to be certain, to have permanency. The continuity of permanence is sought in every direction, in virtue, in relationship, in action, in experience, in knowledge, in outward and inward things. To find security and be secure is the everlasting cry. It is this insistent demand that breeds fear.”
“If we run a hundred miles an hour to the other end of the continent in order to get away from the obstacle, we find the very same problem waiting for us when we arrive. It just keeps returning with new names, forms, manifestations until we learn whatever it has to teach us about where we are separating ourselves from reality, how we are pulling back instead of opening up, closing down instead of allowing ourselves to experience fully whatever we encounter, without hesitating or retreating into ourselves.”
“There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls.”
“I've either got an acute case of hypochondria or I'm falling apart at the age of twenty-three.”
“It makes no sense to worry about things you have no control over because there's nothing you can do about them, and why worry about things you do control? The activity of worrying keeps you immobilized.”
“I felt probably more uncomfortable than Beyonce. But I can't answer for her.”
“Sleep is like a drug. Take too much at a time and it makes you dopey. You lose time and opportunities.”
“I'm not anxious to starve myself. For me, it's not at all sexy to be ultra-thin.”
“Fear narrows the little entrance of our heart. It shrinks up our capacity to love. It freezes up our power to give ourselves.”
“Our population and our use of the finite resources of planet Earth are growing exponentially, along with our technical ability to change the environment for good or ill. But our genetic code still carries the selfish and aggressive instincts that were of survival advantage in the past. It will be difficult enough to avoid disaster in the next hundred years, let alone the next thousand or million. Our only chance of long term survival, is not to remain inward looking on planet Earth, but to spread out into space.”
“The worst thing in the world is to try to sleep and not to.”
“Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.”
“I am not fitted to give concerts. The audience intimidates me, I feel choked by its breath, paralyzed by its curious glances, struck dumb by all those strange faces.”
“Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.”
“Sometimes I feel like I'm possessed with a multitude of demons.”