David Morse Quotes

I have to tell you, every day is a roller coaster.

And loss of control is always the source of fear. It is also, however, always the source of change.

But, I'm kind of a control freak. I get really freaked out if I don't know what's going on and what's going to happen.

People struggle with moments of deep dread about life and moments of surety. Often within the course of the same day. Life is a roller coaster, especially if you take risks.

I felt vulnerable and very much between friends. I remember walking down the hallway and thinking I had no way of knowing what was coming, literally. This wasn't because I had some horrific bullying story, but because of a steady drip of negativity.

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

The world is enormously dangerous and scary. I worry very much for my daughter. I'm not sure we're in control any more, and I think the Internet is partly responsible for that.

I'm always surprised to rediscover that there's something kind of scary about life; and that the feeling we have that we're in charge is probably ill founded.

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

Life is a very scary thing because it's unknown. Anything can happen anytime, and that is terrifying for all of us: to not to be in control.

Nothing in the world causes so much misery as uncertainty.

The fear of death in the one place was not as strong as another kind of fear, the fear of a world gone crazy, a place where anything could happen, where nothing could be trusted, where nothing was certain. A terrible place.

As a rule, men worry more about what they can't see than about what they can.

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.

The crimes that become iconic etch themselves into the collective consciousness because they suggest a frightening truth: that the universe does not rely on cause and effect.

The darkest period of my life, so far, arrived the summer I was pregnant with my eldest son. The future was growing in me with all of its terrifying unpredictability, and I found myself anxious, unable to work and woefully at sea.

Younger people have greatest fears. Why is that? Because they don't know the plot. They don't know their own individual plot... they don't know what's going to happen to them.

I think right now in the world we're feeling like there's no solid ground beneath our feet, you know?

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

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

I just really am trying, trying, all the time. But I like to be scared. I love to suddenly feel out of control.

I was terrified and confused every day of my life until I started Nasty Gal, and for a good while after as well.

I don't have to write about the future. For most people, the present is enough like the future to be pretty scary.

And the terror itself is an example of the world's uncontrollability.

Sometimes I feel I'm living a meaningless life, and I get frightened.