“There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.”
Anxious feeling
Anxious Quotes — page 27 of 107
“Night was spreading slowly around the spinning Earth. It should have been full of pinpricks of light. It was not. There were five billion people down there. What was going to happen soon would make barbarism look like a picnic - hot, nasty, and eventually given over to the ants.”
“It's a bit like walking down a long, dark corridor never knowing when the light will go on.”
“That's the thing about fear. Death will kill you once, but fear kills you over and over and over, if you let it.”
“"They tell us that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself, but I don't believe that." he said. Then, a moment later, he added: "Oh, the fear is there, all right. It comes to us in many different forms, at different times, and overwhelms us. But the most frightening thing we can do at such times is to turn our backs on it, to close our eyes. For then we take the most precious thing inside us and surrender it to something else. In my case, that something was the wave."”
“If you're afraid to die, you will not be able to live.”
“There's nothing to fear but a wide receiver who can run a 100-yard dash in under 10 seconds.”
“I enjoyed doing Lipstick, but it scared me. I was very nervous. I couldn't wait for it to be over. It was very real, and I was just a kid.”
“Of one thing I am sure. Complaining is self-perpetuating and counterproductive. Whenever I express my complaints in the hope of evoking pity and receiving the satisfaction I so much desire, the result is always the opposite of what I tried to get. A complainer is hard to live with, and very few people know how to respond to the complaints made by a self-rejecting person. The tragedy is that, often, the complaint, once expressed, leads to that which is most feared: further rejection.”
“I'm frightened all the time. But I never let it stop me. Never!”
“Dread of night. Dread of not-night.”
“First of all nothing will happen and a little later nothing will happen again.”
“I don't have any spiritual strategy.”
“Some time ago we heard a strange story. The pilot of a small plane said that he had been caught in a one hundred fifty mile gale, which held his plane perfectly still. The motor was roaring, he claimed, but the plane was not moving. "It was weird," he said , "to be going one hundred fifty miles an hour and yet not be going anywhere at all."”
“Worrying is the most natural and spontaneous of all human functions.”
“I was cold, hungry, and in a hole in the ground. But at least I had my elven porn, damnit!”
“Our eyes are not viewers, they're also projectors that are running a second story over the picture that we see in front of us all the time. Fear is writing that script, and the working title is 'I'll never be enough'”
“I'm petrified of bees because I have an anaphylactic reaction to bees.”
“Worry is like rocking in a rocking chair all day, because it keeps you busy but gets you nowhere.”
“Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's job with yesterday's tools and yesterday's concepts.”