“The house shakes...with the roar of the cannon. No sleep for me tonight.”
Anxious feeling
Anxious Quotes — page 61 of 107
“All true wisdom is found on T-shirts.”
“you can't escape tomorrow's responsibilities by evading it today”
“If you have never been at sea in a heavy gale, you can form no idea of the confusion of mind occasioned by wind and spry together. They blind, deafen, and strangle you, and take away all power of action or reflection.”
“I am SHADOW, and my dwelling is near to the Catacombs of Ptolemais, and hard by those dim plains of Helusion which border upon the foul Charonian canal." And then did we, the seven, start from our seats in horror, and stand trembling, and shuddering, and aghast, for the tones in the voice of the shadow were not the tones of any one being, but of a multitude of beings, and, varying in their cadences from syllable to syllable fell duskly upon our ears in the well-remembered and familiar accents of many thousand departed friends.”
“We dread the future only when we are not sure we can kill ourselves when we want to.”
“Skepticism is the elegance of anxiety.”
“What disturbs and alarms man are not the things, but his opinions and fancies about the things.”
“You are of no advantage to anyone who has your negative attention.”
“It's normal to gain weight during pregnancy. It's something that has to happen to your body.”
“I'm scared to death that I'll never be afraid”
“When I got a tiny bit of success, I was petrified that I was going to lose it. I still feel it.”
“The blind pursuit of learning leads to excessive desires—the more you see, the more you want. Excessive desires, in turn, lead to anxiety and misery.”
“We know that drugs, sex and rock and roll stimulates something called dopamine in the brain. So do videogames. Dopamine is something that we crave.”
“It seems like I don't have a lot of time for all the things I need to do. I'm spreading myself fairly thin. I have responsibilities to my children. I have a big staff that works for me. And when you have a staff, and I'm sure you know this, you're always concerned with everybody's life all the time.”
“In an instant, our mind can carry us far away into memories of the past or fantasies about the future. Or we may get caught up in a race against the clock, feeling like there's never enough time. We say things like "Time is flying," "Time is running out," or "There are never enough hours in the day."”
“Sometimes it is hard because my schedule is crazy. I am homeschooled, so my school travels with me.”
“How many times have I failed before? How many times have I stood here like this, in front of my own image, in front of my own person, trying to convince him not to be scared, to go on, to get out of this rut? How many times before I finally convince myself, how many private, erasable deaths will I need to die, how may self-murders is it going to take, how many times will I have to destroy myself before I learn, before I understand?”
“I am too sick to lay down the sidewalks frighten me the whole damned city frightens me, what I will become what I have become frightens me.”
“Mother has to be coerced into doing a lot of things.”