“Being responsible for another human life terrifies me, because I kill plants.”
Anxious feeling
Anxious Quotes — page 51 of 107
“The only way I can describe the extent of my anxiety is to say that I felt as if I were pregnant with a rock.”
“Inability to tell good from evil is the greatest worry of man's life.”
“The boarding-school experience in Paris was very hard, I didn't put up with it very well. I was sick all the time, or in any case frail, on the edge of a nervous breakdown.”
“We've known for some time that we have to worry about the impacts of climate change on our children's and grandchildren's generations. But we now have to worry about ourselves as well.”
“Whenever she felt like crying, she would instead become angry—at someone else or at herself—which meant that it was rare for her to shed tears.”
“Life is so uncertain: you never know what could happen. One way to deal with that is to keep your pajamas washed.”
“I am six feet tall. I am not supposed to be afraid.”
“Beneath all of these addictions is this disease, this control disease which is the mark of our society.”
“The problem is that this speeded-up life and stress in America causes us to cut off our feelings, so we are out of touch with our reality.”
“We are on a perilous margin when we begin to look passively at our future selves, and see our own figures led with dull consent into insipid misdoing and shabby achievement.”
“Our Western society is showing its technological muscles in ever more threatening ways, but the experience of fear, anxiety and even despair has increased in equal proportion. Indeed, the paradox is that the powerful giants feel as powerless as a new-born babe.”
“I told myself: 'I am surrounded by unknown things.' I imagined man without ears, suspecting the existence of sound as we suspect so many hidden mysteries, man noting acoustic phenomena whose nature and provenance he cannot determine. And I grew afraid of everything around me – afraid of the air, afraid of the night. From the moment we can know almost nothing, and from the moment that everything is limitless, what remains? Does emptiness actually not exist? What does exist in this apparent emptiness?”
“He thought that he was sick in his heart if you could be sick in that place.”
“I believe that men are generally still a little afraid of the dark, though the witches are all hung.”
“The earliest sensation at the onset of illness, often preceding the recognition of identifiable symptoms, is apprehension. Something has gone wrong, and a glimpse of mortality shifts somewhere deep in the mind. It is the most ancient of our fears.”
“Not doubt, certainty is what drives one insane.”
“There is nothing more alluring to man than freedom of conscience, but neither is there anything more agonizing.”
“The fear of appearances is the first symptom of impotence.”
“Is not dread of thirst when your well is full, the thirst that is unquenchable?”