Anxious Quotes - Page 18

• The personal life of every individual is based on secrecy, and perhaps it is partly for that reason that civilized man is so nervously anxious that personal privacy should be respected.

  Anton Chekhov

  Men, Civilization, Privacy

  Anton Chekhov (2010). “Five Plays”, p.5, Stanford University Press

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• How frail and ephemeral is the material substance of letters, which makes their very survival so hazardous. Print has a permanence of its own, though it may not be much worth preserving, but a letter! Conveyed by uncertain transportation, over which the sender has no control; committed to a single individual who may be careless or inappreciative; left to the mercy of future generations, of families maybe anxious to suppress the past, of the accidents of removals and house-cleanings, or of mere ignorance. How often it has been by the veriest chance that they have survived at all.

  Elizabeth Drew

  Ignorance, Past, House

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• Man never reasons so much and becomes so introspective as when he suffers; since he is anxious to get at the cause of his sufferings, to learn who has produced them, and whether it is just or unjust that he should have to bear them.

  Luigi Pirandello

  Men, Should Have, Suffering

  Luigi Pirandello (2016). “Six Characters In Search of an Author”, p.49, Jester House Publishing

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• A person who suffers from severe locomotor anxiety finds himself in an almost permanent state of mental tension. He wakes in the morning with the anxious expectation of having to go out somewhere in the course of the day.

  Karl Abraham

  Morning, Expectations, Anxiety

  Karl Abraham (1988). “Selected Papers on Psychoanalysis”, p.197, Karnac Books

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• In these anxious times many of us are less astonished that reason is ever suspended than that it should ever prevail, even during the briefest of intervals.

  Morton Irving Seiden

  Reason, Should, Suspended

  Morton Irving Seiden (1968). “The paradox of hate: a study in ritual murder”

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• Remember always that there are two things which are more utterly incompatible even than oil and water, and these two are trust and worry. Can you call it trust, when you have given the saving and keeping of your soul into the hands of God, if day after day you are spending hours of anxious thought and questionings about the matter? When believers really trust anything, they cease to worry about the thing they have trusted.

  Hannah Whitall Smith

  Trust, Anxious Thoughts, Two

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• Nobody should ever look anxious except those who have no anxiety.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Anxiety, Looks, Should

  Benjamin Disraeli, Edmund Gosse, Robert Arnot (1904). “The works of Benjamin Disraeli, earl of Beaconsfield: embracing novels, romances, plays, poems, biography, short stories and great speeches”

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• It is equally offensive to speed a guest who would like to stay and to detain one who is anxious to leave.

  Homer

  Guests, Hospitality, Offensive

  Homer (1991). “The Odyssey”, Penguin Classics

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• Our imagination and reasoning powers facilitate anxiety; the anxious feeling is precipitated not by an absolute impending threat-such as the worry about an examination, a speech, travel-but rather by the symbolic and often unconscious representations.

  Willard Gaylin

  Worry, Imagination, Anxiety

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• I was neurotic for years. I was anxious and depressed and selfish. Everyone kept telling me to change. I resented them and I agreed with them, and I wanted to change, but simply couldn't, no matter how hard I tried. Then one day someone said to me, Don't change. I love you just as you are. Those words were music to my ears: Don't change, Don't change. Don't change . . . I love you as you are. I relaxed. I came alive. And suddenly I changed!

  Anthony de Mello

  Change, Selfish, Love You

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• I definitely had those moments, like any actor, when you get anxious and think, 'When am I going to work again?' But I would feel that way even when I had every offer in the world coming to me. Then I became a father and I felt a little more of the anxiety that came with the responsibility of being a parent.

  Chris O'Donnell

  Father, Responsibility, Thinking

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• I love shooting, when the character is interesting and the script is interesting, but the research beforehand is really fun. The whole process makes me anxious and restless, and I have trouble sleeping, just trying to figure out the character.

  Matt Damon

  Fun, Character, Sleep

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. June 12, 2002.

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• I am always anxious to know what has happened while I've been asleep.

  Christian Lacroix

  Happened, Knows

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• I went into broadcast journalism. I loved every class I took, I just got anxious because I came to the realization that you're groomed in high school to get good SAT scores to get into a good college or else you're done for.

  Chace Crawford

  School, College, Class

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• Typically, when you have a depressed individual, they feel hopeless. They feel miserable. Their mind is racing, their heart is pounding. They feel anxious. They feel exhausted yet they can't sleep.

  Dale Archer

  Heart, Sleep, Racing

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• Yeah. I do get incredibly anxious. Almost borderline panic attacks.

  Julian Cope

  Panic Attacks, Yeah, Borderline

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• The more anxious, isolated and time-deprived we are, the more likely we are to turn to paid personal services. To finance these extra services, we work longer hours. This leaves less time to spend with family, friends and neighbors; we become less likely to call on them for help, and they on us.

  Arlie Russell Hochschild

  Helping, Finance, Neighbor

  "The Outsourced Life" by Arlie Russell Hochschild, www.nytimes.com. May 5, 2012.

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• There was a point in time where the thought of people even talking about me made me anxious. Physically.

  Chris Ofili

  Talking, People, Made

  "After the elephant dung: Chris Ofili". Interview with Gary Younge, www.theguardian.com. January 15, 2010.

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• If you aren't having fun, if you aren't anxious to find out what happens next as you write, then not only will you run out of steam on the story, but you won't be able to entertain anyone else, either.

  Tamora Pierce

  Running, Fun, Writing

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• Everything I know I imagine everyone else knows as well. And then everything that everyone else knows I imagine they know on top of what I know, so I'm constantly anxious about what everyone else knows.

  Scarlett Thomas

  Imagine, Wells, Knows

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• You look back and see how hard you worked and how poor you were, and how desperately anxious you were to succeed, and all you can remember is how happy you were.

  Jack London

  San Francisco, Succeed, Looks

  Jack London (1979). “No Mentor But Myself: A Collection of Articles, Essays, Reviews, and Letters on Writing and Writers”, Associated Faculty PressInc

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• These new prospective projects include the Appalachian Connector and the Diamond East projects, both are major new projects that connect the burgeoning supplies from the Marcellus and Utica directly to growing demand on Transco that is anxious to see the supplies coming their way as those markets strive to grow as well.

  Alan Armstrong

  East, Growing, Demand

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• Tenterhooks are the upholstery of the anxious seat.

  Robert E. Sherwood

  Anxiety, Upholstery, Seats

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• And were in the middle of a perfect storm. These days, government social services are being bad-mouthed and defunded. The non-profit world is looking more and more like the for-profit world. The growing gap between rich and poor makes most of us very anxious about where we stand.

  Arlie Russell Hochschild

  Government, Perfect, Storm

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• My mom told me to do whatever I wanted to do and don't get too anxious about it.

  David Giuntoli

  Mom, My Mom, Wanted

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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