Anxious feeling

Anxious Quotes — page 98 of 107

Graham Swift Author
Anxious

“You may have your suspicions, your fears, you may even believe there is something, somewhere, terribly, drastically wrong, but because someone else is in charge, because there is a part of the system above you which you don't know, you don't question it, you even distrust your own doubts.”

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Greg James Radio Presenter
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“What's most troubling is the open water swim. It's windy, the waves are getting in your face and the water is a bit dirty. And there's silly things like you can't touch the bottom if you swallow a mouthful of water.”

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Greg James Radio Presenter
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“Also it'll be unbelievably cold in there and the thing I'm probably most worried about is my face. That sounds silly but it's very difficult, if you're in cold temperature water, to get your head under because it takes your breath away. And then your hands go numb so you try and wriggle your fingers while swimming to warm up. It's very tough.”

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Grant Morrison Comic Book Writer, Novelist
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“Afraid? Batman's not afraid of anything. It's me. I'm afraid. I'm afraid that The Joker may be right about me. Sometimes…I question the rationality of my actions. And I’m afraid that when I walk through those asylum gates... when I walk into Arkham and the doors close behind me... it’ll be just like coming home.”

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Franz Kafka Writer
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“it was like this. the brain could no longer bear the worries and pains that were imposed on it. it said: "i'm giving up; but if there is anyone else here who is interested in preserving the whole, let him assume part of my burden and it will be alright for a bit.”

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Franz Kafka Writer
Anxious

“Nervous states of the worst sort control me without pause. Everything that is not literature bores me and I hate it. I lack all aptitude for family life except, at best, as an observer. I have no family feeling and visitors make me almost feel as though I were maliciously being attacked.”

Noam Chomsky Linguist, Philosopher, Activist
Anxious

“There was great anxiety about Russian intervention in the recent German elections, perhaps contributing to the frightening surge of support for the right-wing nationalist, if not neo-fascist, "Alternative for Germany".”

Leona Lewis Singer-songwriter
Anxious

“I suffer from arachnophobia. I don't mind the tiny spiders so much, it's the ones with their legs covered in thick hair.”

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Leonard Cohen Singer-Songwriter
Anxious

“Nothing can stop you from thinking. The human mind is designed to think continually.”

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Leonard Cohen Singer-Songwriter
Anxious

“Today [people] are ready to take emergency cures, whatever they are, if it's violence, if it's a fascination with serial killing or whatever - the discomfort is so intense. Maybe it's always been like that, certainly it is now.”

James Joyce Novelist, Poet
Anxious

“I could call my wandering thoughts together. I had hardly any patience with the serious work of life which, now that it stood between me and my desire, seemed to me child's play, ugly monotonous child's play.”

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James Joyce Novelist, Poet
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“I don't mean to presume to dictate to you in the slightest degree but why did you leave your father's house? MTo seek misfortune, was Stephen's answer.”

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James Joyce Novelist, Poet
Anxious

“I am a worker, a tombstone mason, anxious to pleace averyburies and jully glad when Christmas comes his once ayear.”

Henry David Thoreau Writer, Philosopher
Anxious

“We live thick and are in each other's way, and stumble over one another, and I think we thus lose some respect for one another.”

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