Quotes About Nervousness

So, with my zit throbbing like a nightclub, I went to the interview.

Panic---a deep abiding, free-floating anxiety, often without any reason or logical basis.

He nodded for us to rise. I tried to catch his eye, but he was not even looking in our direction. His eyes were focused on the middle distance. His face was very pale, and he was breathing heavily. We looked at each other and seemed to know: it would be death, otherwise why was this normally calm man so nervous? And then he began to speak.

I was afraid to board a streetcar because of the conductor; I was afraid to enter the Kabuki Theater for fear of the usherettes standing along the sides of the red-carpeted staircase at the main entrance; I was afraid to go into a restaurant because I was intimidated by the waiters furtively hovering behind me waiting for my plate to be emptied.

There are some people whose dread of human beings is so morbid that they reach a point where they yearn to see with their own eyes monsters of ever more horrible shapes. And the more nervous they are -the quicker to take fright- the more violent they pray that every storm will be...

Las personas que temen a otros seres humanos desean ver espectros de apariencia todavía más horrible; las que son nerviosas y se asustan con facilidad, rezan para que la tormenta sea lo más violenta posible; y ciertos pintores, que han sufrido a causa de unos fantasmas llamados seres humanos, acaban creyendo en cosas fantásticas y viendo espectros en pleno día, en medio de la naturaleza.

Algumas pessoas têm um pavor tão mórbido dos demais seres humanos que acabam desejando ver com os próprios olhos aparições cada vez mais monstruosas. E quanto mais nervosas são, quanto mais apavoradas ficam, mais rezam para que as tempestades sejam violentas.

If I ever completely lost my nervousness I would be frightened half to death.

Or that Isaac Porter bit his nails like a man playing a mouth organ?

How do they survive it? she asked. Her hands were hidden in the red sleeves of the jacket and only her fingertips appeared beyond the cuffs. The doctor said, Good food and rest and maintaining a calm mind. Nervousness draws a person down. It consumes your vital energy.

his face grew pale and his thoughts so alarmed him that his hips gave way and his knees knocked together.