“If you consider yourself a friend, dont tell me." Because if i know the rumors, i'll feel like i have to confront the. and right this second i want to live in ignorant bliss.”
Anxious feeling
Anxious Quotes — page 87 of 107
“You can run from some problems, but then you get caught up in others.”
“I respond, thoughts dropping away, like pebbles plopping one by one in water, sinking down, down into dark oblivion.”
“It made our hair stand up in panic fear.”
“To him who is afraid, everything rustles.”
“No, I won't leave the world--I'll enter a lunatic asylum and see if the profundity of insanity reveals to me the riddles of life. Idiot, why didn't I do that long ago, why has it taken me so long to understand what it means when the Indians honour the insane, step aside for them? Yes, a lunatic asylum--don't you think I may end up there?”
“But doubt is wily and cunning and never, as it is sometimes said to be, loud or defiant. It is unassuming and sly, not bold or assertive - and the more unassuming, the more dangerous.”
“I'm trying to keep up with what's happening in this turbulent world.”
“You know, you're living in a society where if you say something that you might think may be OK, when it's more sensitive to that particular culture. You have to be very, very careful.”
“All office workers are afraid of being late for work.”
“Something indefinite is always worse than something definite, a strong fear that doesn't last very long is easier than one that's nebulous but doesn't go away.”
“Let’s talk, you and I. Let’s talk about fear. The house is empty as I write this; a cold February rain is falling outside. It’s night. Sometimes when the wind blows the way it’s blowing now, we lose the power. But for now it’s on, and so let’s talk very honestly about fear. Let’s talk very rationally about moving to the rim of madnessand... and perhaps over the edge.”
“Everything's a lot tougher when it's for real. That's when you choke. When it's for real.”
“Panic is highly contagious, especially in situations when nothing is known and everything is in flux.”
“I didn't want to even stand next to any high rise building as long as I lived... I didn't even want to go over a bridge.”
“If anyone ever asks you what panic is, now you can tell them: an emotional blank spot that leaves you feeling as if you've been sucking on a mouthful of pennies.”
“The first real terror struck him then, and there was nothing supernatural about it. It was only a realization of how easy it was to trash your life. That was what was so scary. You just dragged the fan up to everything you had spent the years raking together and turned the motherfucker on.”
“There seems to be no air in the air she breaths.”
“He found himself still with too many questions and not enough answers.”
“I'm afraid of all kinds of things. I'm afraid of failing at whatever story I'm writing - that it won't come up for me, or that I won't be able to finish it.”