Tom Hanks Quotes

When the headache persisted, I checked myself into an emergency room. When the doctor used the term 'brain tumour', I feared the worst. My whole world shrank around me.

That was just kind of a surprise when the doctor said, 'We did a biopsy on your appendix, and you have cancer.'

I am not frightened of much, but I wouldn't like to get ill.

Everything was going for me, I didn't even know the meaning of the word insecurity and suddenly I am surrounded by words like operation, cancer, chemotherapy, radiation.

I had been feeling a little rum. I didn't think it was anything serious because years ago I felt a lump and it was benign. I assumed this would be too. It kind of takes the wind out of your sails, and I don't know what the future holds, if anything.

I remember just how afraid I was. I was just as much afraid of the treatment as the diagnosis. So I thought I could talk about it in an authentic way.

Down on the West Coast I get this feeling like it all could happen.

Any little bit of experimenting in self-nurturance is very frightening for most of us.

I'm waiting for the floor to drop out from under me.

I'm a spring leaf trembling in anticipation.

The future is always scary to those who cling to the past.

You do have this circumstance in Karachi that because people know things are changing, the stakes are higher. Everyone is thinking, "My home is threatened, my job is threatened, my identity is threatened, my world is threatened." And that creates a very particular sort of climate, that is linked.

It takes so little to change everything. If you really thought about it, it would scare you to death.

I'd always thought I would feel like an animal released from its cage when my student days were finished, I felt more like a bird that had been pushed from its nest and told it must fly.

When things start to happen, and the path does reveal itself to us, we become afraid of carrying on

I worry hope will crush me, the way love has so many times before. Are they so different, hope and love? O & E in the same place, half of the other in each word. Both swimming in unknowns. I’ve been through the big changes. These ones should seem easier in comparison, I should be more prepared, but they don’t and I’m not. Sometimes I feel like a broken-wing butterfly, clinging to a window screen. Afraid to let go. Afraid to stay. Wondering how much wing is enough to fly.

Fear is not of the unknown, but of loss of the known.

I feel that when we leave here I think it's just another transition and whatever it is I hope I'm prepared for it.

It's not so much that we're afraid of change or so in love with the old ways, but it's that place in between that we fear . . . . It's like being between trapezes. It's Linus when his blanket is in the dryer. There's nothing to hold on to.

When fear seizes, change what you are doing. You are doing something wrong.

Should I, after tea and cakes and ices, Have the strength to force the moment to its crisis? But though I have wept and fasted, wept and prayed, Though I have seen my head (grown slightly bald) brought in upon a platter, I am no prophet--and here's no great matter; I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker, I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker, And in short, I was afraid.

I guess we resist changing, because we are afraid of change.

At odd and unpredictable times, we cling in fright to the past .

I was also ready to believe, though, that whatever good things I had managed to set upright could topple at any second.

I'm excited and terrified to write something new.