Yitzhak Shamir Quotes

The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy.

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

If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.

I don't mean to make you nervous, but unfortunately I have to.

I'm trying to relax, but it's hard.

Confrontation makes me nervous.

To live in a city is to be forever flinching.

and even a tea party means apprehension, breakage

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

Unease, anxiety, tension, stress, worry

I have the most nervous stomach in the world.

Being anxious is the worst feeling in the world.

You do have a modicum of peace of mind here, but it's as unsettled as any other place.

I like to play the grey areas in life - that's the most uncomfortable place to be. Nobody likes to be in that in-between state where there don't know what's going to happen. There's a lot of tension in that, and a lot of stuff to play with - where it's uncomfortable and awkward and sad and scary.

Being nervous isn't always the worst thing for me.

Travelling fills me with dread.

I don't like confrontation.

I've always walked around with the sense that the world is not a safe place. I didn't get the spontaneous gene or the adventure one, really. After going through the day with its stresses, when I shut that door at night, I don't have to deal with anything but dinner, 'E.R.' and my bathrobe.

When I watch 'Breaking Bad,' my stomach is in knots.

The best-case scenario is that the glass shatters in my face! How do you think that makes me feel?

I don't have half the nerves there that I have anywhere else.

It's hard for me to be happy because I'm always worried about something going awry or what could happen to screw it up. It's hard for me to sit and look around, going, 'Ah, I'm really happy.' I'm not that kind of person.

When I was 15 or 16 - I slept really well then. Now I sleep on a bed of anxiety-tipped nails.

There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.

Anything you're trying to will is focused on the future; it's always associated with some sort of anxiety that makes the present moment somewhat uncomfortable.