“Writing is supposed to be difficult, agonizing, a dreadful exercise, a terrible occupation.”
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Anxious Quotes — page 63 of 107
“For everyone nowadays knows, absolutely is CERTAIN, that nothing bad will ever happen to ME. Others die, I go on. There are no consequences and no responsibilities. Except that there ARE. But let's not talk about them, eh? By the time the consequences catch up to you, it's too late, isn't it, Montag?”
“I'm scared of myself. I think I'd be a bad driver. I'm scared of cars, period. I've had too many friends killed now, and I've seen too many people killed in my life when I drove across the country when I was 12. I'm sure that has a lot to do with it. If you see a few real dead bodies with brains on the pavement, it does a lot to change your attitude. It means you can get it too. I've had a lot of relatives killed. I've had a lot of dear friends killed. It's stupid. The whole activity is stupid.”
“I don't want to talk about the vampire schedule. That's just gonna upset me.”
“I have a bad time between jobs because I'm always convinced I'll never work again. I think it may be an English thing, this fear of unemployment.”
“I used to spend all of my time projecting. I was never in the moment. It was always tomorrow or next week or two months from now. That was one of the reasons I always had this sense of anxiety.”
“People get frightened that success is going to take them out of life. They're no longer going to be on the corner of Bedlam and Squalor; life will only be something you can get through the mail.”
“It is not death we fear, but the thought of it.”
“When you're hiding behind a character all the time, as soon as you have to be yourself, you feel kind of terrified.”
“I don't want to end up like my mom. That's my biggest fear in life.”
“To the person who is afraid, everything rustles.”
“Fate, then, is the nothing of anxiety.”
“The present state of the world and the whole of life is diseased. If I were a doctor and were asked for my advice, I should reply, 'Create silence'.”
“To be lost in spiritlessness is the most terrible thing of all.”
“To venture causes anxiety. Not to venture is to lose oneself.”
“The instinct for self-deception in human beings makes them try to banish from their minds dangers of which at bottom they are perfectly aware by declaring them non-existent.”
“Extreme busyness, whether at school or college, kirk or market, is a symptom of deficient vitality.”
“Fear is the emotion that makes us blind.”
“I went to school with butterflies of fear every day for years - from primary school onwards - not just worried about being bullied by classmates, but by teachers.”
“"It's just literally being afraid. And you think, oh, [the alcohol] will ease the fear. And it doesn't." What was he afraid of? "Everything. It's just a general all-round arggghhh. It's fearfulness and anxiety." He added, "For that first week you lie to yourself, and tell yourself you can stop, and then your body kicks back and says, no, stop later. And then it took about three years, and finally you do stop."”