Quotes About Tension

My father was one of those men who sit in a room and you can feel it: the simmer, the sense of some unpredictable force that might, at any moment, break loose, and do something terrible. [Burnside, p. 27]

Sarge, mr. Nurd here is threatening to turn me to jelly." "really?" said Sarge. "what flavor?

When Louis relaxed, it was an indication that a threat was at hand and he was preparing to act, as when an archer releases a breath simultaneously with the flight of an arrow, channeling all of the tension into the flighted missile itself.

Being shot at for years by men of a particular nationality will tend to impact negatively upon one's view of them.

Was that his name? I never had a chance to ask. He was too intent upon tearing out my throat for us to engage in idle chitchat.

He has never been shouted at so quietly.

You're a vile human being," said Pettle, the words spilling from his mouth before he could stop them.

When she's drinking, it's bad, but when she's not drinking, well, it's like living with a bomb in the house. The bomb is ticking, and you know it's going to explode, so you just spend your days waiting for the bang. And when it happens, you're almost relieved.

Since the artist cares in a peculiar way for the phase of experience in which union is achieved, he does not shun moments of resistance and tension. He rather cultivates them, not for their own sake but because of their potentialities, bringing to living consciousness an experience that is unified and total.

We began to circle each other, looking for a tsuki, a gap in concentration, that would permit an attack.

A lack of narrative structure, as you know, will cause anxiety.

My father was always so mingled with rage at his life.

Life is an X-rated soap opera.

Life is a nightmare that prevents one from sleeping.

In real life, it takes only one to make a quarrel.

Humor is essential to a full and happy life. It is a reliever and relaxer of pressure and tension, and the saving element in many situations.

If you take real-life circumstances and take out all the pauses then you have a thriller. It has to be non-stop, high stakes and fascinating all the time. Real life is like that from time to time.

Sometime, somewhere, life always comes to a fight, and peace always comes to an end.

Suspense left my life a long time ago, now it has returned. I do not care for it.

Is this the Olympics or One Life to Live?

Life is a theatre of alarms and contentions.

Life is often like that, the best balancing on a knife edge with the worst.

Living life in separate compartments can lead to internal conflict and exhausting tension.

Now I'd like someone to tell me there is no drama in real life!