Anxious feeling

Anxious Quotes — page 78 of 107

Anais Nin Writer, Diarist
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“Anxiety is love's greatest killer, because it is like the stranglehold of the drowning.”

Anais Nin Writer, Diarist
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“Often, though, the passivity of the woman's role weighs on me, suffocates me. Rather than wait for his pleasure, I would like to take it, to run wild. Is it that which pushes me into lesbianism? It terrifies me. Do women act thus? Does June go to Henry when she wants him? Does she mount him? Does she wait for him? He guides my inexperienced hands. It is like a forest fire, to be with him. New places of my body are aroused and burnt. He is incendiary. I leave him in an unquenchable fever.”

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Andrew Weil Author
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“I don't think you can live without stress; I think the human life is stressful, and it probably always has been, although the forms of stress may change from culture to culture, and from time to time.”

Andrew Young Civil Rights Leader
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“I had to get a second passport in a hurry.”

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Andy Murray Tennis Player
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“It becomes tricky, and you start to think about the cramps rather than just actually what you're trying to do on the court, which is obviously win the match.”

Andy Murray Tennis Player
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“You can be careful as far as you can, but you never know when you're going to fall over and break your ankle. It's like when you drive a car, you don't think about crashing, do you?”

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Andy Warhol Artist, Filmmaker
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“I really hate heights. I always like to live on the first floor.”

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Andy Warhol Artist, Filmmaker
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“If you're traveling for five years or something like that, you're going somewhere. But five years are being used up, and you don't have to do anything. You just sit on the plane. That might make time go really fast.”

Ang Lee Director, Producer
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“So anything that's not absolutely needed, we would cut it [footage] out, which would make me very insecure; everything has to work, and it's a water movie in 3D with a kid, animals. So the more I do that, the more I'm scared of "What if it doesn't go the way we want it?" But we had to do that to meet the budget, otherwise we wouldn't even have a start-date.”

Angie Stone Singer
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“I was always on the go, and thought I was too busy to develop something like this. I thought at the time that diabetes went along with bad habits, but I was the last one in my family to eat junk food.”

Anne Lamott Author, Essayist
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“Can you imagine the hopelessness of trying to live a spiritual life when you’re secretly looking up at the skies not for illumination or direction, but to gauge, miserably, the odds of rain?”

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Anne Lamott Author, Essayist
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“I woke up full of hate and fear the day before the most recent peace march in San Francisco. This was disappointing: I'd hoped to wake up feeling somewhere between Virginia Woolf and Wavy Gravy.”

Anne Lamott Author, Essayist
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“I got a lot of things that society had promised would make me whole and fulfilled - all the things that the culture tells you from preschool on will quiet the throbbing anxiety inside you - stature, the respect of colleagues, maybe even a kind of low-grade fame.”

Anne Lamott Author, Essayist
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“Writing can be a pretty desperate endeavor, because it is about some of our deepest needs: our need to be visible, to be heard, our need to make sense of our lives, to wake up and grow and belong. It is no wonder if we sometimes tend to take ourselves perhaps a bit too seriously.”

Anne Lamott Author, Essayist
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“She lived in fear of ifonic endings.”

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Anne Sexton Poet, Author
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“Fear / a motor, / pumps me around and around / until I fade slowly.”

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Anthony Bourdain Chef, Author, Television Personality
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“When you're shooting that fast end to end, you wake up in a hotel and you don't know where you are. You're dreaming of Singapore, you wake up in Hong Kong. Or you just lose track. It's one of the reasons I'm staying in hotels that I know I've stayed in before, and they don't look like other hotels.”

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Anton Chekhov Playwright, Short Story Writer
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“I think that it would be less difficult to live eternally than to be deprived of sleep throughout life.”