“I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country.”
Anxious feeling
Anxious Quotes — page 3 of 107
“It's not the problem that causes our suffering; it's our thinking about the problem.”
“I'm shy, paranoid, whatever word you want to use. I hate fame. I've done everything I can to avoid it.”
“I think my worst problem is actually living in the moment and understanding everything that's going on. I feel like I'm in my own bubble.”
“When I turned two I was really anxious, because I'd doubled my age in a year. I thought, if this keeps up, by the time I'm six I'll be ninety.”
“If you make every game a life and death proposition, you're going to have problems. For one thing, you'll be dead a lot.”
“You know the worst thing is freedom. Freedom of any kind is the worst for creativity. You know, Dali spent two months in jail in Spain, and these two months were the most enjoyable and happy in my life. Before my jail period, I was always nervous, anxious. I didn't know if I should make a drawing, or perhaps make a poem, or go to the movies or the theatre, or catch a girl, or play with the boys. The people put me in jail, and my life became divine. Tremendous!”
“There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the Thought Police plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork. It was even conceivable that they watched everybody all the time. But at any rate they could plug in your wire whenever they wanted to. You had to live-did live, from habit that became instinct-in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized.”
“Indecision may or may not be my problem.”
“It's hard sometimes to not want to know what people are saying behind your back and to ignore certain things that are being written.”
“Anxiety is the gap between the NOW and the THEN. So if you are in the NOW, you can't be anxious, because your excitement flows immediately into ongoing spontaneous activity.”
“Sometimes I even cut myself to see how much it bleeds It's like adrenaline, the pain is such a sudden rush for me.”
“The scariest, most terrifying thing that I fear? Yes. My Imagination. I thought you were going to say "Fear, itself." Then you have a small imagination.”
“Without patience, we will learn less in life. We will see less. We will feel less. We will hear less. Ironically, rush and more usually mean less.”
“Never take ecstasy, beer, baccardi, weed, pepto bismol, vivarin, tums, tagamet hb, xanax, and valium in the same day. It makes it difficult to sleep at night.”
“On the first day Coraline's family moved in, Miss Spink and Miss Forcible made a point of telling Coraline how dangerous the well was, and they warned her to be sure she kept away from it. So Coraline set off to explore for it, so that she knew where it was, to keep away from it properly.”
“As a teenager I was so insecure. I was the type of guy that never fitted in because he never dared to choose. I was convinced I had absolutely no talent at all. For nothing. And that thought took away all my ambition, too.”
“I feel certain that I'm going mad again, I feel we can't go thru another of those terrible times. And I shan't recover this time. I begin to hear voices”
“The future is uncertain but the end is always near.”
“Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.”