Jerry Spinelli Quotes

I don't know that I've ever been completely comfortable with anything.

When something is new, it creates a new kind of fear.

The unknown makes people uncomfortable.

Most of the time, I'm a little bewildered or sort of feel out of place.

No one likes uncertainty.

Sometimes when people give you suggestions they are kind of making you nervous, you wonder whether you are doing something wrong.

That is my theory to explain the I don't knows. It's human.

I like to play the grey areas in life - that's the most uncomfortable place to be. Nobody likes to be in that in-between state where there don't know what's going to happen. There's a lot of tension in that, and a lot of stuff to play with - where it's uncomfortable and awkward and sad and scary.

This whole business feels kind of intense, like a bad fit. Round peg, square hole. But whatever, I'll take it.

There was a point in school when I was, like, thirteen, that I didn't feel comfortable at all.

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

We are, perhaps, uniquely among the earth's creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our lives, fearing the future, discontent with the present, unable to take in the idea of dying, unable to sit still.

Blind dates are treacherous. You don't know who this person is. You wonder, 'Should I call my grandma during coffee to get out of this?'

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

There's a certain kind of scepticism that can't bear uncertainty.

I'm not someone who feels settled.

Strangers still leave me self-conscious.

The world's not a very comfortable place if you have a nightmare to face.

The unknown is very scary.

Why do waiting rooms have to be so ominous?

Is it weird in here, or is it just me?

All great changes are irksome to the human mind, especially those which are attended with great dangers and uncertain effects.

Apprehensions are greater in proportion as things are unknown.

Uncertainty is everywhere and you cannot escape from it.

I lived with uncertainty.