Quotes About Nerves

Alice watched, the moonshine coursing through her blood, the warmth and music making her nerves sing, and felt something give inside her, something she hadn't wanted to acknowledge to herself, something primal to do with love and loss and loneliness.

As Andrew stood before his students he felt the nerves that rack any amateur hypocrite.

Just as courage is not the absence of fear but the determination to be brave and move forward in spite of our nerves, genuine peace is not the absence of trauma but is finding our calm in the midst of turmoil, the presence of Jesus asleep in the storm.

The fugitive, brief, though intense satisfactions that come to the nerves through the appetite and passions are not the foundations of joy in this world: they come with a moment's flash, and are disastrous in their flight.

Come fight night, there will be nerves, but it's how you react to those nerves - doing what you need to regardless - that's how you win fights.

My nerves were still singing from the morning.

Opium makes you quick-witted - perhaps only because it calms the nerves and stills the emotions. Nothing, not even death, seems so important.

The thought of retirement set his nerves twitching and straining: he always prayed that death would come first.

Henry added with apparent anxiety, 'You're wet through, Sarah. One day you'll catch your death of cold.' A cliché with its popular wisdom can sometimes fall through a conversation like a note of doom, yet even if we had known he spoke the truth, I wonder if either of us would have felt any genuine anxiety for her break through our nerves, distrust, and hate.

Nerves provide me with energy... It's when I don't have them, when I feel at ease, that's when I get worried.

I don't get butterflies. I get a good feeling in my stomach before I compete. When I don't, I get worried.

I think the whole nerves thing comes into play when we worry about what other people and society will think.

The doctors misdiagnosed me at first - they told me I had a pinched nerve. But my situation was getting worse. The tumor was cutting off the circulation in my nerves. And in two weeks' time, I was left paralyzed. I went from a cane to crutches to a walker to a wheelchair.

It has gotten worse as I'm becoming more successful. My nerves. Just because there's a bit more pressure, and people are expecting a lot more from me.

I listen to worship music before the game to calm my nerves and just go out and have fun. It's a game, and I try to enjoy it.

The worst thing for an actor is a director that gets on your nerves and says things that actually confuse you.

After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs.

There's a ton of nerves for every fight I've been in; it doesn't matter if it was my debut.

I remember going to audition in Toronto for a girl group. I was 15 or 16. I went in with my guitar. I had the wickedest nerves, man! I was decent, but not good enough.

I have this system. I torture my husband and everyone around me with my nerves and anxiety. Then, when I get on stage, the fear is gone. I've exhausted myself. It just dissipates.

That's how myths are born. Out of our carelessness, out of our tattered nerves, out of jokes that go wrong and flashy gestures.

I'm trying to stay as calm as possible and focus one day at a time, but when reality sets in, I feel everything: anxiety, excitement, nerves, pressure and joy.

Cut nerves left lying on the threshing floors drift and roll and wind up all aligned with the earth's magnetic field, like iron filings swayed by a magnet in a classroom experiment.

If a person remains tense for a long time he might not notice it himself, but it's like his nerves are a piece of rubber that has been stretched out. It's hard to go back to the original shape.