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Quotes About Nerves

La vida es muy fácil contarla, pero enfurecedora practicarla, y damos la bienvenida a los "nervios" o a algún esquema que se adapte a nuestro personal deseo.
~ E. M. Forster
Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice, and we welcome 'nerves' or any other shibboleth that will cloak our personal desire.
~ E.M. Forster
Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice, and we welcome "nerves" or any other shibboleth that will cloak our personal desire. She
~ E.M. Forster
Pain is a function of nerves, Idaho reminded himself. Pain comes as light comes to the eyes. Effort comes from the muscles, not from nerves. It was an old mentat drill and he completed it in the space of one breath
~ Frank Herbert
The first night was awful because I was so afraid, and I was never more afraid because it was going out of my character to be outgoing and to be vulnerable and to be out there and onstage. My hands were sweaty and I couldn't swallow, and I drank a bottle of wine to calm my nerves.
~ George Lopez
Nothing is like being out there and playing and performing and winning - nothing. But to have an interest in the player? The nerves and everything that goes with it? Seeing what he's learned and how he's done it? That's the second best thing to playing. I think.
~ Jimmy Connors
I'm just so lucky - my office is a racetrack. That is something I'm very thankful for. It's exciting, and it's challenging, and there are a lot of emotions and nerves that come with it, but right there before the gates open, before that minute and a half or two minutes of the race, it just hits you.
~ Chantal Sutherland
I took theatre and stuff in college, then I took a bunch of different acting classes here in L.A. Sometimes when I have a hard audition, I'll call my acting coach and he'll come help me. I actually get more nervous in acting class than I do at an actual audition. It's actually a really great way to get over your nerves.
~ Melissa Ordway
O medo? O medo é um preconceito dos nervos. E um preconceito desfaz-se; basta a simples reflexão.
~ Machado de Assis
He is a monk. On his card it says INNER PEACE CENTER. I will go there in February for a tea ceremony. Does he actually know more than I do about inner peace? If he met my relatives, would he have a nervous breakdown? What about his relatives? Do they drive him nuts? The truth is everybody gets on everybody's nerves.
~ Maira Kalman
Seine Augen waren blau vor Sehnsucht und wurden vor Schmerz und Auflehnung wieder schwarz. Er war ein Gewirr verschlungener Nerven, die ohne einen Kern der Ruhe nach allen Seiten vibrierten.
~ Anais Nin
The physical body is an agent of the spirit and its mirror. It is an engine and a reflection of the spirit. It is the spirit's ingenious memorandum to itself and the spirit sees itself in my body, just as I see my own face in a looking glass. My nerves reflect this. The earth is literally a mirror of thoughts. Objects themselves are embodied thoughts. Death is the dark backing that a mirror needs if we are to see anything.
~ Saul Bellow
The early shows had the breath of Victorian melodrama: the music had a tingling quality, of time running out or fate closing in. The narration enhanced it: … the hushed voice and the prowling step … the stir of nerves at the ticking of the clock … the rescue that might be too late, or the murderer who might get away … we invite you to enjoy stories that keep you in … Suspense
~ John Dunning
Life is not governed by will or intention. Life is a question of nerves, and fibres, and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself and passion has its dreams.
~ Oscar Wilde
La música siempre hace bien, desata los nudos con que los nervios se aferran a las emociones.
~ Elena Ferrante
Al final decidí que, con veterinario o sin él, el concierto me relajaría. La música siempre hace bien, desata los nudos con que los nervios se aferran a las emociones.
~ Elena Ferrante
The sea journey back was not without event. She was distraught, her nerves at a breaking point. She may have looked from the deck of the ship at those surging waves below. Maybe even for a moment have wished herself in their midst. Perhaps for once she danced Ondine in her troubled mind. It happily was not be. Tragic and banal as would have been that end to her story, Fate denied it as her destiny.
~ Anton Dolin
As it was he had moods and depressions which might last for weeks. And of these there is ample evidence in diary. The man with the nerves gets things done but sometimes he has a terrible time in doing them. " Written about Scott in Chapter 6
~ Apsley Cherry-Garrard
When I play on stage, I have to drink a glass of water.
~ Fallon Sherrock
Sicknesses, especially those affecting nerves and head, are signs that the defensive strength of the strong natures is lacking; precisely this is suggested by irritability, so pleasure and displeasure become foreground problems.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Information is crucial to our biological substance - our genetic code is information. But before 1950, it was not obvious that inheritance had anything to do with code. And it was only after the invention of the telegraph that we understood that our nerves carry messages, just like wires.
~ James Gleick
I think nerves stop you from doing things. Make you stop and maybe make you withdraw. Then there's excitement where you can't wait to do it.
~ Michael Pena
To speak, therefore, of an electric current in the nerves, is to use quite as symbolic an expression as if we compared the action of the nervous principle with light or magnetism.
~ Johannes P. Muller
It's true that in tennis sometimes the margins are very thin.
~ Caroline Garcia