“I had a terrible dream yesterday with military helicopters and the Taliban. I have had such dreams since the launch of the military operation in Swat. My mother made me breakfast and I went off to school. I was afraid going to school because the Taliban had issued an edict banning all girls from attending schools.”
Anxious feeling
Anxious Quotes — page 92 of 107
“I worry that track is going to enter into an impossibly complicated stage, where our understanding of the complexities of human physiology - and our ability to accentuate and exploit them - is going to make the notion of pure competition impossible.”
“[People] have a fear of the, the Muslim movement and the Muslim religion because it has a tendency to make the people who accept it stick together.”
“My biggest fear is death, because I don't think I'm going anywhere. And since I don't think that, and I don't have a belief ... I'm married to someone who has the belief, so she knows she's going somewhere.”
“I need to stop getting into situations where all my options are potentially bad.”
“I get nervous when I fly; I'm used to walking with my feet.”
“When I do these interviews, I get really nervous. And when I get nervous, it comes off as mellow for some reason.”
“You don't realize what a strain it is on the nerves to write or think-of-writing all day long, and to sleep full of nervous dreams, and to wake up not knowing who one is: this all stems from anxiety about finishing the book, about time 'growing short', etc., and the perpetual strain of invention.”
“Why did I allow myself to be bored ever in the past and to compensate for it got high or drunk or rages or all the tricks people have because they want anything but serene understanding of just what there is, which is after all so much.”
“I am young now and can look upon my body and soul with pride. But it will be mangled soon, and later it will begin to disintegrate, and then I shall die, and die conclusively. How can we face such a fact, and not live in fear?”
“I'm scared, okay? I'm really scared all the time.”
“Improv is not something I had a lot of experience with, because for a long time, my only experience in front of a camera was all television, which is pretty rigid script-wise, except for the occasional scene where you toss in an ad-lib just to elongate something. Like, say, you're walking down a hall and you just don't have enough dialogue, and you throw in something. But you don't really have time to do other than what's written. It's very rigid. Shows have a certain rhythm that nobody wants disturbed.”
“We live by action—by acting on desire. Those of us who don't know how to want—whether geniuses or beggars—are related by impotence.”
“I have a business appointment that I am anxious... to miss.”
“It is not easy to bear prosperity unruffled.”
“My bark, once struck by the fury of the storm, dreads again to approach the place of danger.”
“Love is a thing full of anxious fears.”
“If a movie goes south, it might not capsize me the way it used to. But I still have a terrible fear of failure. I'm a huge worrier.”
“In this republican country, amid the fluctuating waves of our social life, somebody is always at the drowning-point.”
“Nervous and excitable persons need to talk a great deal, by way of letting off their steam.”