Simone Elkeles Quotes

I could see her get all nervous but she was also excited. Nightmares have that quality, don't they?

My heart beat Beats me senselessly Why's everything Gotta be so intense with me.

Only one thing bothered me: at this very moment, as they say, of inexplicable bliss there would be a sinking feeling at the pit of my stomach and my abdomen would be assailed by a melancholy, cold shivering. In the end I couldn't abide such happiness and ran away.

In one moment I was feeling everything and I was feeling nothing.

My heart raced. He needs you, I thought. Don't let him down. I couldn't remember ever being so happy... or so scared.

I'm horrified most of the time. I wish it was more complicated, but at the same time, each time I try to complicate it I hate it because I hate the idea of writing to impress.

I found myself in a sea in which the waves of joy and sorrow were clashing against each other.

Grace (talking about Sam): At the sight of him, my stomach slid down to my feet, a weird combination of relief, nerves, and anticipation all in one, a feeling that never seemed to go away.

Hope and fear are inseparable.

Twin threads ran through her: fear and excitement.

I'm trying to stay as calm as possible and focus one day at a time, but when reality sets in, I feel everything: anxiety, excitement, nerves, pressure and joy.

I was an emotional basket case.

It's not like you make a decision and everything inside you is 100 percent happy.

There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense.

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

Everyone couldn't be happier and more terrified.

Our lives are full of all the genres. Fear and hope and sadness.

Everything with me is pretty close to the surface, but having kids has completely ruined my emotional equilibrium.

Every human being you see in the course of a day has a problem that's sucking up at least 70 percent of his or her radar.

Even though I am a professional, and I know what the steps are, I don't quite know how I'm going to do them, because I haven't lived that moment yet. I always feel very insecure and I get very excited.

You go through every single inch of the emotional spectrum on fight week. You're the most stressed out you've ever been, you're the most pressured you've ever been, you're the happiest you've ever been - it's hard. It's exhausting.

Pretty much everything I've written is a mix of excitement and fear.

There are moments when your mind is very vulnerable. You feel a lot of doubts.

I think nerves stop you from doing things. Make you stop and maybe make you withdraw. Then there's excitement where you can't wait to do it.

I don't get hung up a lot on angst.