“We are afraid of losing what we have.”
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Anxious Quotes — page 68 of 107
“Being afraid of having an endoscopy (if you're a man) and giving birth (if you're a woman).”
“What happens with you when you begin to feel uneasy, unsettled, queasy? Notice the panic, notice when you instantly grab for something. (51)”
“This is the tendency of all living things: to avoid pain and to cling to pleasure.”
“My moods are continuously shifting like the weather.”
“When you can discover where the fresh colors of the faded flower abide, or the music of the broken lyre, seek life among the dead. Such are the anxious and fearful contemplations of the common observer, though the popular religion often prevents him from confessing them even to himself.”
“Whatever the police or politicians may tell us, this is a violent and threatening place. Living here is dangerous.”
“Sometimes the body gets out of bed an hour before the brain.”
“Women are afraid of walking at night, that someone pulls them into an alley and rapes them. That almost never happens. I mean, 98% of people who are raped, are raped by somebody they know. Somebody goes too far. But the destruction is just the same.”
“I think I write or publish as much as I do because I can bear being without a book to work on.”
“I think I write or publish as much as I do because I can bear being without a book to work on. But routinely when I finish a book, I think, "What will I do? Where will I get an idea?" And a kind of low-level panic sets in. And then eventually something happens. I don't know. If I knew how it happened I would repeat the process, but I don't know - something just occurs to me.”
“There are maybe one or two hours a day when I think I can play, but I get over that real quick once I realize the risk and my wife tells me, "Just take a seat."”
“I definitely don't want to run any 5K races anytime soon. I can work out pretty hard as far as intensity. But as far as playing basketball or anything high impact, it's probably not smart for me to do.”
“Darkness feeds on apathy.”
“Nothing activates adrenaline production like pain. - Dr. Sienna Brooks”
“to have a crisis, and act upon it, is one thing. To dwell in perpetual crisis is another.”
“When people are frightened about going hungry and paying their mortgages, a scarcity model begins to prevail; they fear someone else will get their piece of the pie.”
“We do know that a percentage of LGBT people avoid and delay screening and care because of fear about or experience of stigma, discrimination or simply lack of knowledge about LGBT people and their health amongst providers. If you avoid or delay screening and care and you have an issue that may be precancerous, by the time you get into screening and care you’re there because it has become acute and you already have a progressed disease.”
“True! - nervous - very, very nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad?”
“My biggest fear in the world is going broke and having to depend on someone else again.”