Nick Harkaway Quotes

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.

I have a thing where if I'm not in control, I feel the whole world is about to collapse.

Sometimes I feel I don't know even know how to run.

That is the fear: I have lost something important, and I cannot find it, and I need it. It is fear like if someone lost his glasses and went to the glasses store and they told him that the world had run out of glasses and he would just have to do without.

Maybe sometimes you just feel like everything can be taken from you all at once.

I still feel I'm going to wake up any moment, and my skin's going to break out all over.

We live in a pretty bleak time. I feel that in the air. Everything is uncertain. Everything feels like its on the precipice of some major transformation, whether we like it or not.

I do have a sense of displacement as constant instability - the uninterrupted existence of everything that I love and care about is not guaranteed at all. I wait for catastrophes.

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

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

The world that we all knew before, could wake up in feeling safe... now it seems that everything has been turned upside down.

Not being secure affects us as humans. It throws us off our balance. It puts us in disarray.

We are going through a terrible crisis. We do not know exactly what is going to happen, but in our hearts the pendulum of the seismograph is already swinging.

Once you know how completely and suddenly the earth can open up at your feet and the worst can happen, it also, paradoxically, leaves you more afraid of everything else.

Sometimes I want to control things more than I'm able to.

There's, like, a dark needle or a nail that lives at the back of all of our heads, and that's your fear.

I know what it is like to feel vulnerable and fearful during a difficult time.

I've gotten a lot more paranoid in my older age.

My biggest fears I can't talk about. And my biggest fear is that those fears happen, and I can't stop it.

When I first walked into Uber, it was very difficult because people were unsure about what was going to happen - there was a real sense of powerlessness.

It's inevitable that you feel scared when you don't have control of a situation.

Bullying made me feel insecure, alone, ugly, powerless, and hopeless at times.

I've lost a lot of control in my life.

My anxiety stems from my lack of control no matter what.

That's the thing about being a victim; you start to think it'll happen to you on a regular basis. It's living with the reality of your own vulnerability, and it sucks.