Thomas Hobbes Quotes

Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear.

I have been restless for as long as I can remember.

Hope and fear are inseparable.

The state of man is inconstancy, ennui, anxiety.

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.

When desire dies, fear is born.

We fear the thing we want the most.

I've realised I need a gnawing, nagging, anxious doubt when I wake at 4 A.M.

To put meaning in one's life may end in madness, But life without meaning is the torture Of restlessness and vague desire-It is a boat longing for the sea and yet afraid.

I always feel fear, even just in daily life I feel fear.

I am not a calm, happy person. I am complicated.

God! Is there anything uglier than a frightened man!

Fear and Guilt are the only enemies of man.

You perhaps now know that desire reduces us to pulp.

I am a jumble of passions, misgivings, and wants. It seems that I am always in a state of wishing and rarely in a state of contentment.

I'm awaiting a lover. I have to be rent and pulled apart and live according to the demons and the imagination in me. I'm restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again.

The human being is constantly torn from calm and peace of simple existence by two things; wanting what you don't have, or disliking what you have.

Fear can supplant our real problems only to the extent -unwilling either to assimilate or to exhaust it -we perpetuate it within ourselves like a temptation and enthrone it at the very heart of our solitude.

Fear usually looks like anger.

Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.

Modern man is probably a more humiliated and depressed creature than he dares to know.

Perhaps not being very self-aware in the past masked depression. I think I was confused. I think I was immature. I think I probably was quite depressed.

When I left home, I was going to ride around a little while and then go to my mom's. As I rode and rode and rode, I felt even more anxiety coming upon me about not wanting to live.

I'm never entirely happy. That's just part of my personality, and I just have to accept that.