“Now anxiety is the mark of spiritual insecurity. It is the fruit of unanswered questions. But questions cannot go unanswered unless they first be asked.”
Anxious feeling
Anxious Quotes — page 30 of 107
“The scariest thing in my life is the first morning of production on all my movies. It's the fear of failing, the loss of face and a sense of guilt that everybody puts their faith in you and not coming through.”
“When we worry we are saying, 'I know the way my life is supposed to go, and God's not getting it right'.”
“Death: There's nothing bad about it at all except the thing that comes before it-the fear of it.”
“The mind that is anxious about future events is miserable.”
“Men have gained control over the forces of nature to such an extent that with their help they would have no difficulty exterminating one another to the last man. They know this, and hence comes a large part of their current unrest, their unhappiness and their mood of anxiety.”
“The future is only scary if we try to avoid it.”
“Fear is the strong passion; it is with fear that you must trifle, if you wish to taste the intensest joys of living.”
“You can approach the act of writing with nervousness, excitement, hopefulness, or even despair - the sense that you can never completely put on the page what's in your mind and heart. You can come to the act with your fists clenched and your eyes narrowed, ready to kick ass and take down names. You can come to it because you want a girl to marry you or because you want to change the world. Come to it any way but lightly. Let me say it again: you must not come lightly to the blank page.”
“Hollywood is a suction for your confidence or your faith or your togetherness. Just walking on the street you can feel it.”
“Extroversion is an enormously appealing personality style, but we've turned it into an oppressive standard to which most of us feel we must conform.”
“Evangelicalism has taken the Extrovert Ideal to its logical extreme...If you don't love Jesus out loud, then it must not be real love. It's not enough to forge your own spiritual connection to the divine; it must be displayed publicly.”
“Don't think of introversion as something that needs to be cured.”
“When I fell out of the light, I entered The stomach of indifference, the wordless cupboard.”
“Diazapam (that's valium), temazepam, lithium, ECT, HRT - how long must I stay on this stuff? Don't give me anymore!”
“I couldn't possibly lead the kind of life I lead, and keep the schedule that I do, having radiation or chemotherapy.”
“They’re always like, 'That’s not what happened in the books, so the show’s really bad now.' But really, they just feel insecure because they’re used to knowing what’s coming next.”
“In an underdeveloped society, the first anxiety is of infant mortality. In an advanced one it is to keep alive the aged.”
“Fear is an emotion indispensable for survival.”
“Fear is contagious. You can catch it.”