Gena Showalter Quotes

You know, sometimes I feel well and vital in the world, and sometimes I just feel so distressed I want to pull my hair out by the roots.

I can't control my frustration.

I don't have control over what's on screen, and that's terrifying.

To say that its wrong to feel this way is not the point; you do feel it. All you see is a flash of fire and, depending on your altitude, you don't even see that sometimes.

The poor monkey, quietly seated on the ground, seemed to be in sore trouble at this display of anger.

[I] have fantasies of killing myself and thus being the powerful one not the powerless one.

I was shaking all over, and it wasn't from the vampire. Memories have teeth, too.

I'm losing control."-Brittany Mamacita, I've already lost it."-Alex

I'm scared of him," said Piggy, "and that's why I know him. If you're scared of someone you hate him but you can't stop thinking about him. You kid yourself he's all right really, an' then when you see him again; it's like asthma an' you can't breathe.

There are some days where, at the end of the day, you've done OK. It's the most out-of-control feeling you possibly can have.

They're fake bullets, so why do I feel like Im bleeding out?

A feeling of violation swayed inside me, making me feel as if Id been shoved off a high platform without warning. I was falling, and I feared the sensation far more than hitting bottom. There was no end; just a constantsense of gravity having its way with me.

I think that fear comes about when there's things in the world that we want to change, things we're scared or angry about, and we can't change them, and so we become fearful; we develop anxiety.

Well, I did know - but I just wanted the day to pass and the next day to come and then I wanted that one to pass. It was a horrible cycle. I felt so close to having to pack the game in.

What they were giving me seemed incredibly real to me, so I'd react to it in a very real way. That was frightening for me, especially because of the subject.

I'm familiar with that feeling of silence that comes with a very imminent catastrophe, when you know you have absolutely no control over a situation.

A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.

I woke up nights, worrying that Lotus was out of control - that no one would know what to do.

My nightmare is that I don't want to be OK.

Issues deals with the issues I had, the fears I had and it isn't a 'nice' album but fears and depressions are not particularly nice.

I struggle with control.

Childhood was terrifying for me. A kid has no control. You're three feet tall, flat broke, unemployed, and illiterate. Terror snaps you awake. You pay keen attention. People can just pick you up and move you and put you down.

When you whisper about something, it's too big, and you can't get it under control and take control of it.

Powerlessness frustrates; absolute powerlessness frustrates absolutely. Absolute frustration is a dangerous emotion to run a world with.

People's fear doth ofttimes degenerate into desperation