Trent Reznor Quotes

You know that day after day of, Oh God what am I going to do with myself feeling? The fear of the emptiness that it implies keeps me going.

There is no comfort anywhere for anyone who dreads to go home.

Worry is the activity of a mind which does not understand its connection with Me.

The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.

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

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

There were times when I've not wanted to be in my own skin, and that's a very scary feeling.

It's irksome to read about someone I don't recognize. It frightens me.

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

I was standing onstage last year, and I felt like I wanted to be somewhere else. No matter how many people were out there, it all just felt like a blank sheet of paper.

It's a sad man my friend who's livin' in his own skin and can't stand the company.

Dread, which is closely related to fear, steals the ability to enjoy ordinary life and makes people anxious about the future. It keeps them from looking forward to the next day, the next month, or the next decade.

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

I felt nobody would understand what was going on in my mind.

I am living for every day and trying to have less fear, less worry. But I have always worried about everything; it's in my nature. It's the thing that makes me suffer the most.

Living, it's awful for me.

Fear is that thing that keeps you up there on that other plateau. Fear is that thing that just keeps you closed down, and quite frankly, alone.

The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.

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

Underneath our nice, friendly facades there is great unease. If I were to scratch below the surface of anyone I would find fear, pain, and anxiety running amok. We all have ways to cover them up. We overeat, over-drink, overwork; we watch too much television.

Suspense is worse than disappointment.

I feel not unlike a small boy, waking from a bad dream to find reality not much of an improvement.

The Truth, when you finally chase it down, is almost always far worse than your darkest visions and fears.

I've had a lifelong waiting-for-the-other-shoe-to-drop feeling when something good happens.

Wherever you are in the world, whoever you are with, sometimes you feel desperately lonely.