“As human beings, everyone has stuff coming at them, and a certain kind of fear.”
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Anxious Quotes — page 76 of 107
“I wonder if I'm being paranoid. I tell myself I'm not, and then ask myself how I can be so sure? I don't know the answer, so I go back to wondering if I am.”
“It's a very confusing era that we're in.”
“It's hard to tell what will stimulate curiosity nowadays because looking at some of the things that do excite people, you kind of go, "Ohh, OK. So this hasn't a chance." But we made it anyway. I think if people see the picture, they'll find a lot of parallels to today, ever since 9/11 and everything, that kind of fear that's going on in disturbance of the country.”
“The only reason I ever thought about retiring from the front part of the camera as opposed to the back is sometimes you think, "How many roles are there for someone my age?"”
“Sometimes at night I worry about TAMMY. I worry that she might get tired of it all. Tired of running at sixty-six terahertz, tired of all those processing cycles, every second of every hour of every day. I worry that one of these cycles she might just halt her own subroutine and commit software suicide. And then I would have to do an error report, and I don't know how I would even begin to explain that to Microsoft.”
“How do you convince someone to change, to stop being afraid of himself? How do you convince yourself not to be so scared all the time?”
“terror finally becomes almost bearable but never quite terror creeps like a cat crawls like a cat across my mind”
“Americans need rest, but do not know it. I believe this to be a large part of the explanation of the crime wave in the United States.”
“Uncertainty in the pressure of vivid hopes and fears is painful, but must be endured if we wish to live without the support of comforting fairy tales.”
“It hurts! It throbs with pain, the like of which I never felt the half! Mortal flesh would scream again . . . yet demon spirit bids to laugh”
“I don't know where this Arctic wind has come from but it's freezing!”
“I get nervous when I don't get nervous.”
“Now, if the passions had no hold on us, a week and a hundred years would amount to the same.”
“We do not worry about being respected in towns through which we pass. But if we are going to remain in one for a certain time, we do worry. How long does this time have to be?”
“The state of man is inconstancy, ennui, anxiety.”
“Condition de l'homme: inconstance, ennui, inquie tude. Man's condition. Inconstancy, boredom, anxiety.”
“I write all day every day, so when I feel unproductive, it magnifies everything else.”
“If you let fear take hold, if you let it own you, your life ceases to be your own.”
“[In 1951] we were also told that the Russians could be parachuting from planes over our town at any time. These were the same Russians that my uncles had fought alongside only a few years earlier. Now they had become monsters who were coming to slit our throats and incinerate us. It seemed peculiar. Living under a cloud of fear like this robs a child of his spirit. It's one thing to be afraid when someone's holding a shotgun on you, but it's another thing to be afraid of something that's just not quite real.”