“Dread, which is closely related to fear, steals the ability to enjoy ordinary life and makes people anxious about the future. It keeps them from looking forward to the next day, the next month, or the next decade.”
Anxious feeling
Anxious Quotes — page 53 of 107
“His religion at best is an anxious wish,-like that of Rabelais, a great Perhaps.”
“Did you ever see a portrait of a great man without perceiving strong traits of pain and anxiety?”
“You need an infinite stretch of time ahead of you to start to think, infinite energy to make the smallest decision. The world is getting denser. The immense number of useless projects is bewildering. Too many things have to be put in to balance up an uncertain scale. You can't disappear anymore. You die in a state of total indecision.”
“What is meditation?... It is fleeing from the self, it is a short escape of the agony of being a self, it is a short numbing of the senses against the pain and the pointlessness of life. The same escape, the same short numbing is what the driver of an ox-cart finds in the inn, drinking a few bowls of rice wine or fermented coconut-milk.”
“When new technologies impose themselves on societies long habituated to older technologies, anxieties of all kinds result.”
“Nothing in the world causes so much misery as uncertainty.”
“My narrative is that I've never known what's coming next-I still don't. I fell down the right set of stairs and have been surrounded by people who have picked me up and said, “Let's try this again.” It's been one anxious block of uncertainty after another.”
“We find our energies are actually cramped when we are overanxious to succeed.”
“The thing I fear most is fear.”
“There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.”
“We want to know. If we don't know, we don't feel safe, we don't feel secure.”
“I don't like watching myself on TV, I don't like reading about myself.”
“I don't think about the trials and the Olympics a lot. If I do, it's just going to stress me out and get me worried.”
“Because that, more than any monster, was what Sam had feared: that he was weak and cowardly. He had a terrible fear of being afraid.”
“The only thing is worrying about sleeping. If I have to be up early I worry about being able to get to sleep.”
“For any new technology there is always controversy and there always some fear associated with it. I think that's just the price of being first sometimes.”
“I keep thinking I should get a phone, because everyone's got one and it becomes increasingly difficult to exist in a society where everyone else has moved ahead and you haven't.”
“That just seems like a tough thing to do... just work in the middle of a company for your entire life. You just do the same thing out of college until you're 60, and then you retire”
“Patience! Patience! The world is a vast and ghastly intricacy of mechanism, and one has to be very wary, not to get mangled by it.”