Erin Morgenstern Quotes

Every time I'm shooting a movie I want to kill myself. Because I don't see the light in the end of the tunnel.

I feel the pressure.

I get stressed out really easily.

People get so stressed and nervous and mad.

… a job of infinite stress

I don't know about the rest of you, but I feel pressed and tense almost every day of my life about something or other. And I think it's the one thing, as I look into people's eyes, that I think I share with almost everybody.

I was so busy fighting and so busy trying to keep everything above water that I didn't realize I was spiraling downward with nowhere to go.

I can't even plan tomorrow.

I certainly do get at the end of my rope at times. We all do.

I just think that for a lot of people - not to take the focus off of myself - that feeling of imminent dread, like a cloak of black dust, was always around me.

I've created a chaotic life, and then I get on edge because of it.

It's the weight of expectation that's the hardest to deal with, really, from my point of view.

I don't want any more vicissitudes, I don't want any more of this try, try again stuff. I just want out. I've had it. I am so tired. I am twenty and I am already exhausted.

The constant attention is what is so difficult.

I'm going to do my best to do both and die of an ulcer at age 30.

I become mad when I work. It's like a fever that grows; I don't need to choose just one thing.

This crazy world that looks like a lot of fun is also really stressful and crazy at times.

Don't you ever feel that - that you just need to get away? From everything? That it's all too much?

I needed a vacation. I needed 5 women. I needed to get the wax out of my ears. My car needed an oil change. I'd failed to file my damned income tax. One of the stems had broken off of my reading glasses. There were ants in my apartment. I needed to get my teeth cleaned. My shoes were run down at the heels. I had insomnia. My auto insurance had expired. I cut myself every time i shaved. I hadn't laughed in 6 years. I tended to worry when there was nothing to worry about. And when there was something to worry about, i got drunk.

I get irritated, nervous, very tense or stressed, but never bored.

I feel like I'm walking on eggs and can't take another step.

This whole Puff Daddy thing has taken a toll on me.

Stress is something that is sort of out of your control. You get stressed out over looking at the finish line. Stress is something that is an outside thing. Stress is an 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.

Stress is not the spice of life any more than arsenic is. And without it, you won't feel bored.