Ma Jian Quotes

I don't like seeing talented storytellers ruled by fear.

I write good songs out of fear... fear of failure. Because if they're not good enough, you feel yourself starting to fall.

I'm acutely aware of my anxiety.

I don't like the feeling of being unhappy. I don't like the feeling of being unsure about myself, or uncertain with where something's going - I would rather turn away. I just can't feel like that ever again. It's just horrible.

Who feareth to suffer suffereth already, because he feareth.

Fear is not a disease of the body; fear kills the soul.

How sick i am! that thought Always comes to me with horror. Is it this strange for everybody? But such fugitive feelings have always been my metier.

The fear's as bad as falling.

Sometimes what I write on the page frightens me, so I feel free when I write, but I don't feel safe.

Anxiety is love's greatest killer, because it is like the stranglehold of the drowning.

Worry is a cloud which rains destruction.

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.

Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.

I lie on the floor, washed by nothing and hanging on. I cry at night. I am afraid of hearing voices, or a voice. I have come to the edge, of the land. I could get pushed over.

Certain of misfire, my heart threatens to stop.

I'm in a foul mood as I'm making stupid mistakes... This morning I lost beyond repair a painting with which I had been happy, having done about twenty sessions on it; it had to be thoroughly scraped away... what a rage I was in!

Already Roland feels his limbs starting to go numb. He swallows hard. "I hate this. I hate you. I hate all of you." "I understand.

Worry is a mean-faced dwarf who beats on your heart like a kettledrum.

I am desperate and vulnerable. ... I am always terrified.... Beauty can sometimes be so very troublesome.

You’ve been here before. It won’t kill you. It feels like you can’t breathe, but you actually are breathing. It feels like you’ll never stop crying, but you actually will.

you seem to grieve for what is not so ... and there is no need to let your heart run ahead into evils that may never come.

If anyone ever asks you what panic is, now you can tell them: an emotional blank spot that leaves you feeling as if you've been sucking on a mouthful of pennies.

I was shaking all over, and it wasn't from the vampire. Memories have teeth, too.

Whenever there's the experience of a broken heart, there's the experience of fear.

Fear is the loneliest feeling. You can be in a throng of people, but if you're afraid, you're on your own.