Mental Unease Quotes

Every man who attacks my belief, diminishes in some degree my confidence in it, and therefore makes me uneasy; and I am angry with him who makes me uneasy.

It's such a weird thing: to sit and look at yourself is so distracting to the psyche. It would be like me standing in front of a mirror and looking at myself all day, trying to find a flaw.

Tenser, said the Tensor. Tension, apprehension, and dissension have begun.

I don't know if I can relax. Relax, I can't do. My brain, on idle, is a bad thing. I just get weird. I mean, not weird. I get, I get antsy.

Today I felt pass over me A breath of wind from the wings of madness.

I'd seen too many troubling things to be easy in my mind. I knew too much and not enough. I'd better go out, I said to myself, I'd better go out again.

Of the mental hazards, being scared is the worst. When you get scared, you get tense.

I have existential worries inside of me, but I don't always know how to express them all the time.

This haunting idea of becoming a celebrity doesn't settle well with me at all.

When my family isn't alright, I get restless. It just doesn't seem right to me.

I followed his argument with the blank uneasiness which one might feel in the presence of a logical lunatic.

Anxiety and hostility seem to be a great part of good and bad humor. Examining humor too closely does seem to destroy it.

My mind has been the most discontented and restless one that ever was put into a body too small for it.... I never felt my mind repose upon anything with complete and undistracted enjoyment- upon no person but you. When you are in the room my thoughts never fly out of window: you always concentrate my whole senses

So being two different people in one day unnerved me to no end.

The fear of approaching death, which in youth we imagine must cause inquietude to the aged, is very seldom the source of much uneasiness.

There is a devilishly direct relationship between the significance of an idea and how nervous we become at the prospect of having to think about it.

Thinking is not always...comforting. It is always good, but not always comforting. Royal Assassin

Sometimes I catch myself stooping, and whenever I am like that, I am sure something is not quite right.

Anxiety is our agitated soul scrambling for control.

We talked of the growing shadows that are being cast over our thoughts here at home.

I feel kind of limited and locked into my body and brain - I'm not super into it all the time.

When a condition or a problem becomes too great, humans have the protection of not thinking about it. But it goes inward and minces up with a lot of other things already there and what comes out is discontent and uneasiness, guilt and a compulsion to get something--anything--before it is all gone.

I think there’s a lot of threshold weeping. Like, am I doing this? Am I really wearing this out in the world? My daughter is very much like that. She will put clothes on and her clothes just make her beside herself. They make her so sad sometimes. And you do realize you feel betrayed sometimes by your own clothing. You put something on that usually protects you and makes you OK, and sometimes you’re just not fit for the world and even your best pants can’t overcome that feeling for you.

I am always in doubt; I am never sure of myself.

Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains.