Sarah Dessen Quotes

Do we not all spend the greater part of our lives under the shadow of an event that has not yet come to pass?

Suspense is worse than disappointment.

When things are going good, I get nervous.

When things go well I'm always looking for the next hiccup.

I don't fear what will happen, but you just get ahead of yourself, like, 'Oh my gosh, I wish it would happen now.'

The night before the Nobel announcement every year, I've gone to bed feeling quite anxious. I was optimistic, and also I knew it might never happen.

Words can't describe how one would feel in that moment after doing a test for something you really want but in your heart you don't think you have a chance of getting.

There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.

I'm scared of the unknown future.

Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen.

I fear the future.

There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down.

I'm scared of a lot of things.

I don't know if I can prepare for what's to come because I don't know what will.

I think fear of the unknown is the scariest thing.

My only fear is the unknown.

Uncertainty's not good for anybody.

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

When there's uncertainty they always think there's another shoe to fall. There is no other shoe to fall.

This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.

We promise according to our hopes; we fulfill according to our fears.

I’m concerned about all areas of uncertainty.

We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears.

We are living in a world of fear. The life of man today is corroded and made bitter by fear: fear of the future, fear of the hydrogen bomb, fear of ideologies. Perhaps this fear is a greater danger than the danger itself because it is fear, which drives men to act thoughtlessly, to act dangerously.

I've had a lifelong waiting-for-the-other-shoe-to-drop feeling when something good happens.