Quotes About Tension

When I was with the Bulls, I was very dysfunctional.

What's more confrontational than burning cities for almost a year?

This country is bursting.

Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.

I am certainly suffering from a modicum of performance anxiety.

Decay is quiet but ghastly, explosion is dramatic and dreadful. There's not much to choose between the two of them in reality, and most of our lives have sufficient of both.

Religiosity is suffocating in Pakistan. It invariably stokes the fire in driving society to religious extremism.

Balance has never been my strong suit.

Every episode of 'Suits' is great and moves the story forward.

It's going to be a long, hot summer. The hotter it gets in Baghdad, the hotter it will get in D.C.

I'm super stressed; I'm super overwhelmed.

I am the rest between two notes which are somehow always in discord.

I have a notion that, at big fires, a moment of extreme suspense can sometimes occur, when the jets of water slacken off, the firemen no longer climb, no one moves a muscle. Without a sound, a high black wall of masonry cants over up above, the fire blazing behind it, and, without a sound, leans, about to topple. Everyone stands waiting, shoulders tensed, faces drawn in around their eyes, for the terrible crash. That is how the silence is here.

For somewhere reigns an old hostility / between living one's Life and doing one's Work.

I believe that almost all our sorrows are moments of tension which we experience as a paralysis, because we no longer hear our estranged feelings living. Because we are alone with the strange thing that has entered into us; because for a moment everything familiar and customary has been taken from us; because we stand in the middle of a crossing where we cannot remain standing.

It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living.

Ich glaube, dass fast alle unsere Traurigkeiten Momente der Spannung sind, die wir als Lähmung empfinden, weil wir unsere befremdeten Gefühle nicht mehr leben hören. Weil wir mit dem Fremden, das bei uns eingetreten ist, allein sind; weil uns alles Vertraute und Gewohnte für einen Augenblick fortgenommen ist; weil wir mitten in einem Übergang stehen, wo wir nicht stehen bleiben können.

Yo creo que casi todas nuestras tristezas son momentos de tensión que experimentamos como si se tratara de una parálisis. Porque ya no percibimos el vivir de nuestros sentidos enajenados, y nos encontramos solos con lo extraño que ha penetrado en nosotros. Porque se nos arrebata por un instante todo cuanto nos es familiar, habitual. Y porque nos hallamos en medio de una transición, en la cual no podemos detenernos.

landed against a man who looked up with the anonymous familiarity of a drunk and shoved me hard away.

The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.

He felt his body divide itself into a hotness and a coldness, a softness and a hardness, a trembling and a hot trembling, the two halves grinding one upon the other

In real life, as we know, the failure to relax a particular tension can lead to madness.

War is a bad thing, but peace can be a living horror

Stand by for the lovely concussion.