“The anxiety was like poison ivy. It took nothing to set off that mental itch-a chance remark, remembering an event from the day before-but once it started I found it impossible to stop the cycle. My thoughts twisted in a circle, my pulse hammered, I couldn't concentrate.”
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Anxious Quotes — page 85 of 107
“I couldn't understand a sense of unease that multiplied until I could hear my heart beating.”
“[Y]outh is hardly human: it can't be, for the young never believe they will die...especially would they never believe that death comes, and often, in forms other than the natural one.”
“but it's so hard to dance that way when it's cold and there's no music.”
“It wasn't good for my nerves, that kind of work - a fireman. I've got high blood pressure. I get upset easily. I don't think that was a proper career alternative for me.”
“Do you realize how hard it is to keep your mind clear when somebody’s telling you to keep your mind clear?”
“To be on set every day with a whole bunch of people that know their job and my job a lot better than I do and I'm supposed to tell them what to do, that's very uncomfortable and awkward.”
“Honestly, the most uncomfortable thing for me is my level of incompetence is uncomfortable.”
“I function better in an atmosphere of inner insecurity and fear.”
“Once I was on the job, once I had got started, I felt safe enough, but the anticipation made me tense.”
“I suppose I did feel a certain public pressure always.”
“There is nothing that Nature has made necessary which is more easy than death; we are longer a-coming into the world than going out of it; and there is not any minute of our lives wherein we may not reasonably expect it. Nay, it is but a momen'ts work, the parting of soul and body. What a shame is it then to stand in fear of anything so long that is over so soon!”
“He who fears from near at hand often fears less.”
“A hungry people listens not to reason, not cares for justice, nor is bent by any prayers.”
“If you are bent on assuming a pose and never reveal yourself to anyone frankly, in the fashion of many who live a false life that is all made up for show; for it is torturous to be constantly watching oneself and be fearful of being caught out of our usual role. And we are never free from concern if we think that every time anyone looks at us he is always taking-our measure; for many things happen that strip off our pretence against our will, and, though all this attention to self is successful, yet the life of those who live under a mask cannot be happy and without anxiety.”
“Fear drives the wretched to prayer”
“Haste trips up its own heels, fetters and stops itself.”
“It is only the surprise and newness of the thing which makes that misfortune terrible which by premeditation might be made easy to us. For that which some people make light by sufferance, others do by foresight.”
“They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.”
“The fear of war is worse than war itself.”