Joan Rivers Quotes

It's just scary to think how fast everything is rolling, and you can't stop it.

We are afraid of the enormity of the possible.

Big emotions that are unexplained are really scary. At least to me.

Imagine a thousand more such daily intrusions in your life, every hour and minute of every day, and you can grasp the source of this paranoia, this anger that could consume me at any moment if I lost control.

Sometimes I feel I don't know even know how to run.

There are some days where, at the end of the day, you've done OK. It's the most out-of-control feeling you possibly can have.

I'm familiar with that feeling of silence that comes with a very imminent catastrophe, when you know you have absolutely no control over a situation.

I got this idea about being afraid to let go of something and being afraid of sinking into a state of almost anesthesia, where you have to trust other people. Just the paranoia of it all. And it seemed to suit the frenetic track. So I just wrote it out and, you know, said it.

I don't have control over what's on screen, and that's terrifying.

I woke up nights, worrying that Lotus was out of control - that no one would know what to do.

All of life and human relations have become so incomprehensibly complex that, when you think about it, it becomes terrifying and your heart stands still.

With The Omen, I really felt I wasn't in control. It was panic.

My biggest fear in life is losing the people I love, and the thing with cancer is that it seems that you can't really control it.

I know that when I talk to my parents and my friends, there's a strong feeling of the world out of control and damaged.

The negative side is that sometimes it is beyond control.

I'm not sure I always feel like I'm in the seat. Sometimes I'm only holding on by one hand and flying out behind the roller coaster. I don't know anybody who doesn't feel that way.

The poor monkey, quietly seated on the ground, seemed to be in sore trouble at this display of anger.

What I wasn't prepared for were the feelings of anxiety that it stirred in me. I wasn't prepared for the initial feeling of I don't want to have to do that again. I was scared.

I like normal stuff people fear - like spiders and heights. I'm frightened by the unknown, by things that are hard to figure out and get a grip on.

The release of 'Lungs' was so hard. It was terrifying, because it was the first time doing everything. The first experiences of media exposure were almost paralysing. I spent a lot of time crying on the floor of the studio - it sent me a bit mad.

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

I have a thing where if I'm not in control, I feel the whole world is about to collapse.

I worry about everything, which is silly because there's very little you can control anyway.

I feel there is this looming cloud over my life.

Sometimes I feel surrounded by this dark cloud, and it feels like I can't breathe. It's nervousness and I don't know what else.