Mark Z. Danielewski Quotes

Twin threads ran through her: fear and excitement.

I'm standing here, holding a half a lemon in my hand. I'm speechless, I'm excited . . . I'm a wreck. Caleb wants to be where I am.

It was unsettling to be in love with someone who looked like the face in her nightmares.

Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear.

I look forward to change, but there is a part of me that absolutely dreads it.

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

Since I was shot, everything is such a dream to me. Like I don't know whether I'm alive or whether I died. I wasn't afraid before. And having been dead once, I shouldn't feel fear. But I am afraid. I don't understand why.

When I saw 'The Player', I came out with knots in my stomach because it was so true to my experience.

I don't get hung up a lot on angst.

I get nervous when I don't get nervous.

Tenterhooks are the upholstery of the anxious seat.

I both wished and feared to see Mr. Rochester on the day which followed this sleepless night. I wanted to hear his voice again, yet feared to meet his eye.

Ten minutes can be a long time when you're waiting with a beating heart for something you don't understand, something you don't really want to know.

Only one thing bothered me: at this very moment, as they say, of inexplicable bliss there would be a sinking feeling at the pit of my stomach and my abdomen would be assailed by a melancholy, cold shivering. In the end I couldn't abide such happiness and ran away.

I'm horrified most of the time. I wish it was more complicated, but at the same time, each time I try to complicate it I hate it because I hate the idea of writing to impress.

There's nothing wrong with me...except acute chronic fear.

My heart beats, echoes into the cold streets where nightmares and darkness begin to meet.

Fear can supplant our real problems only to the extent -unwilling either to assimilate or to exhaust it -we perpetuate it within ourselves like a temptation and enthrone it at the very heart of our solitude.

There are situations in which hope and fear run together, in which they mutually destroy one another and lose themselves in dull indifference.

Hope and fear are inseparable.

Fear usually looks like anger.

There is even a happiness - that makes the heart afraid.

Fear is exciting for me.

I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.

I just always had this feeling inside me of always being nervous and afraid of situations.