John Irving Quotes

I suddenly feel left out of a future that isn't even going to happen.

I was a peripheral visionary. I could see the future, but only way off to the side.

She sees things — things that might happen, things that are coming. But it’s very subjective. The future isn’t set in stone. Things change.

These are frightening times...when she feels herself annointed by loneliness.

I get depressed at airports.

Our fears are an amazing gift of the imagination... a way of glimpsing what might be the future when there's still time to influence how that future will play out.

I was writing from the age of 10, and I was never really into going to discos and dances and stuff. I never told anyone at school that I did that because I feared it would alienate me even more.

The problem is I don't know anything or anyone. I am so focused on the immediate picture in front of me.

One of my few shortcomings is that I can't predict the future.

Especially moments when things are very difficult and complicated for me and I am still trying to grasp what is happening and I am still trying to understand and to reach family back home.

Hemingway has expressed with genius the terrors of the modern man at the danger of losing control of his world

I do see the world in pretty dark terms. I find it colder and scarier the older I get.

I've been living with anxiety much, much, much longer than I've been with living with alcoholism, that's for sure. I already knew from the sheer numbers and all the data that I'm not alone. I mean, the biggest mistake I did was spending most of my life thinking I was the only person who felt this way.

I actually found it very moving how destructive depression is. I was really saddened by this burden people have to handle.

I know what it is like to feel vulnerable and fearful during a difficult time.

At times, I feel like I got the world on my shoulders.

The main thing that triggered my depression was my isolation that was imposed on me by becoming the wife of the prime minister, and leaving my home, my family. I was young, very young, and very naive and very hopeful and enthusiastic about my wonderful new life, but it was the loneliness and the lack of being able to properly relate to people.

The actual thought of not really having a home was, for me, very depressing, and it was something that I was dealing with for quite some time.

Though we are more prosperous a nation and more connected a global community than ever before, many of us still feel lonely, disoriented and uncertain of the future.

I have a weird propensity to know what's going to happen in the future.

The thought of being alone when time goes on is a little bit scary sometimes, but not really.

LA is a harsh city to be in when you're a little girl from the South, and you have absolutely no idea what you're doing and you are thinking, 'Am I making, have I made a massive mistake? I don't have money to move back home. My parents are not on board with this. What do I do?'

Sir, that much prudence calls for too much worry; I cannot foresee misfortunes so far away.

Everything psychic is pregnant with the future.

More and more I feel like a letter—deposited here, collected there. But a letter addressed to no one.