Andy Warhol Quotes

I very often have night terrors. Just think of the worst possible situation, and it's a regular thing for me. I've died in my sleep twenty-three different ways.

I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.

Over a period of 11 months, I was constantly afraid that Youth Care would lock me up. It was all a frightening and traumatic experience. So often, these terrible memories come to me. I can't ignore them.

My fears and anxieties throughout my whole life have been slowly squeezing my voice.

As a kid, all I thought about was death. But you can't tell your parents that.

After I was assaulted in Egypt, I learned fear. I've just never been so scared in my life. I've never been so close to death.

I'm always on the verge of death in my head.

Flashbacks rarely involve language. Mine certainly didn't. They were visual, motor, and sensory, and they took place in a relentless, horrifying present.

Everyone always told me that I had the symptoms of a P.O.W.

I saw Suicide in '74 and it was pretty horrifying.

When you have been born in a war like me, living in a war as a child, when you have been in wars as a war correspondent all your life - trust me! You develop a form of fatalism; you are always ready to die.

As a young man you don't notice at all that you were, after all, badly affected. For years afterwards, at least ten years, I kept getting these dreams, in which I had to crawl through ruined houses, along passages I could hardly get through.

My uncle's house burned down when I was 6 years old. We got out safely. But ever since, I've had a nightmare of dying in a fire.

When you're traumatized, you pick out one thing you remember more than anything else.

I think my character's getting to the point where he can't even eat spaghetti with red sauce anymore, where he has horrible nightmares, he can't sleep anymore.

I have been to hell and back. I had a very, very bad nervous breakdown.

I believe I encountered death, which was a bit too much for a seven-year-old.

I think about dying a lot, every time I fall asleep on a train or a plane I expect to wake up to a crash!

I still have nightmares of dead comrades, a long time ago, talking to me. 'Emmanuel, don't forget about us, don't give up, keep telling our story.'

I had my moments when I got very frightened that I would not recover.

I have a lot of nightmares.

I think everything is going to be devastatingly sad - when the phone rings, I know somebody in my family's been hurt, somebody's going to die. I'm sure a therapist would go, 'That's not a good way to live,' but every time it's not that bad thing, I'm so thankful and appreciative.

The root of the problem I have is anxiety, and it's all derived from something - I'm just going to say it, some kind of sadness. It manifests in so many different ways and it affects people differently.

There's something called latent PTSD. It manifests itself in different ways. I want to be free of it, but I'm not.

I told my therapist I was having nightmares about nuclear explosions. He said don't worry it's not the end of the world.