Liane Moriarty Quotes

I was screaming constantly, on the set, in my room... everywhere.

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'm suffering from the worst anxiety. I wake up reeling from panic at 4 A.M.

Who feareth to suffer suffereth already, because he feareth.

I think grief and fear are going to come to him suddenly. They'll be undiluted and words won't work. We're all going to get hit and won't know how to hit back. I wish I knew the answers, how to help myself and the people who will hurt all around me.

I remember being in intensive care, looking at the clock and thinking 'don't go to sleep, don't go to sleep'. I can laugh about it now but I was petrified.

I'm terrified beyond the capacity for rational thought.

If anyone ever asks you what panic is, now you can tell them: an emotional blank spot that leaves you feeling as if you've been sucking on a mouthful of pennies.

He sobbed in desperation at the burden of fear he carried with him every day of his life.

Everyone just screams and screams and screams. I have accepted it as real now, but it still feels surreal.

Hovering near panic, trying to focus but finding it hard to open my eyes. My heart was pounding. I couldn’t get enough air, and I couldn’t find the desire to push her away

Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey. But, sorrow is at least an arriving.

I spent four days and four nights just covered in blood, falling in the water.

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

To say that its wrong to feel this way is not the point; you do feel it. All you see is a flash of fire and, depending on your altitude, you don't even see that sometimes.

When I was a child, I used to cry all the time.

Panic is a horrible thing.

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

And I've known people who came out with a sense of torture.

I was under so much pressure. I often felt scared.

My great aunt raised me for about four or five years. Something I took from her was a quote: 'Fear of suffering is far worse than suffering itself.' I actually have that tattooed on the back of my arm.

Insecurity, for me, feels like the sensation of suffocating.

Claustrophobia is a theme that I feel is really rife in 'Sound of my Voice' and struggling to come up for air from that feeling.

I was extremely timid and to be made to feel that I was not wanted, although in a place where I had every right to be, even months afterwards caused me sometimes weeks of pain. Every time any one of these disagreeable incidents came into my mind, my heart sank, and I was anew tortured by the thought of what I had endured, almost as much as the incident itself.

So we become alive in a time of fear.