“When I was trained as a journalist, as a race-relations reporter in Nashville covering the end of the civil-rights movement, we were strictly forbidden to use the first-person pronoun. There was kind of an electric charge around it. To come out from hiding and use the word 'I' carried a lot of fright for me.”
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Anxious Quotes — page 18 of 107
“Irrepressible curiosity vied with an instinctive fear.”
“When Americans look out on the world, they see nothing but dark and menacing strangers who appear to have no sense of rhythm at all, nor any respect or affection for white people; and white Americans really do not know what to make of all this, except to increase the defense budget.”
“Discouragement seizes us only when we can no longer count on chance.”
“Fear is going to be a player in your life, but you get to decide how much.”
“And I also felt that no one in an audience could abuse me worse than the sort of abuse I had had at work as a psychiatric nurse.”
“The question now is does Obama have any hope of raising money? I don't think he'll raise it out of the New York people, I don't think he's going to raise it out the Hollywood people, so where's the money going to come from for Barack Obama?”
“My feeling about fears is, if you voice your fears, they may come true. I'm superstitious enough to believe that.”
“Confusion is the main cause of worry”
“Fulfill me, make me happy, make me feel safe, tell me who I am. The world cannot give you those things, and when you no longer have such expectations, all self created suffering comes to an end.”
“The inability to open up to hope is what blocks trust, and blocked trust is the reason for blighted dreams.”
“I am more afraid of making a fault in my Latin than of the Kings of Spain, France, Scotland, the whole House of Guise, and all of their confederates.”
“Life inspires more dread than death - it is life which is the great unknown.”
“It's exhilarating to be alive in a time of awakening consciousness; it can also be confusing, disorienting, and painful.”
“Fear is a manipulative emotion that can trick us into living a boring life.”
“When I'm in a bad mood, I don't listen.”
“I feel engulfed in the infinite immensity of spaces whereof I know nothing, and which know nothing of me, I am terrified The eternal silence of these infinite spaces alarms me.”
“Anxiety is not fear, being afraid of this or that definite object, but the uncanny feeling of being afraid of nothing at all. It is precisely Nothingness that makes itself present and felt as the object of our dread.”
“The anxiety of most parents in seeing their sons and daughters enlist does not lie only in the fear of the physical dangers they may encounter.”
“My nerves are bad to-night. Yes, bad. Stay with me. 'Speak to me. Why do you never speak? Speak. 'What are you thinking of? What thinking? What? 'I never know what you are thinking. Think.”