Agnes de Mille Quotes

The real effect of the WTC calamity has been depressed spirits, anxiety, and uncertainty among publishers, and of course those emotions are not restricted to publishers.

A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work. Worry upsets our whole system; work keeps it in health and order.

What you experience in the army, aged 18 to 21, is what you take through all your life. You cross invisible lines: you shoot someone, get shot, break into people's houses. It's naive to think you won't carry anything into your life.

I have friends with post-traumatic stress - friends with post-traumatic stress who are, you know, highly successful, capable people.

We manage the fear, I manage the fear, but it certainly takes its toll, the strain does.

The General is suffering from mental saddle sores.

The 'Demon King' takes out a lot out of Finn Balor the man emotionally and mentally.

I don't have the psychological stamina to last under artistic compromises over a prolonged period of time. I get hostile and vindictive. It wears me down.

The Joker is a psychopathic, mass-murdering, schizophrenic clown with zero empathy. Last week I probably slept an average of two hours a night. I couldn't stop thinking. My body was exhausted, and my mind was still going.

I'm starting to understand that fear is like cancer - you can beat it back, but if it returns, it can be worse than ever.

I was born with a nervous breakdown.

You collapse a few times, and you put your head in your hands, and you say, "Oh my god, how am I gonna get through this?" You have a few of those nights, and then you get over it and you keep it moving. And those nights... As you get more used to the strain, I guess those nights are fewer and farther between. So that's the best you can hope for. It's a tough job and it's a lot to pull out of your brain.

Worry, whatever its source, weakens, takes away courage, and shortens life.

There was something I was always very good at, however, and that was teaching myself not to be frightened while frightening things are going on. It is difficult to do this, but I had learned. It is simply a matter of putting one’s fear aside, like the vegetable on the plate you don’t want to touch until all of your rice and chicken are gone, and getting frightened later, when one is out of danger. Sometimes I imagine I will be frightened for the rest of my life because of all of the fear I put aside during my time in Stain’d-by-the-Sea.

The first horror is there's horror. The second is you accommodate it.

There are times when the mind is dealt such a blow it hides itself in insanity. While this may not seem beneficial, it is. There are times when reality is nothing but pain, and to escape that pain the mind must leave reality behind.

I thought, I might not look my best, I've forgotten half the words to my songs and I'm suffering from post-traumatic stress, but I've just got to get out there and do it.

want won't kill you half as quick as worry will.

Fear and stress - one creates the other.

Nightmares end. That's how you know they're nightmares.

In this county, we had to walk, eat, sleep and love in fear.

I'd have a nervous breakdown except that I've been through this too many times to be nervous.

I am too tired, I must try to rest and sleep, otherwise I am lost in every respect. What an effort to keep alive! Erecting a monument does not require an expenditure of so much strength.

I think maybe the reason I have spent most of my life being afraid is that I have been trying to prepare myself to train my body for real fear when it comes. But I am not prepared.

Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.