Ugo Betti Quotes

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

People still have existential anxiety. It just may not be expressed in Hebraic idiom.

What a curious creature is man; with what a variety of powers and faculties is he endued; yet how easily is he disturbed and put out of order.

Insecurity is the result of trying to be secure.

I think you're not a human being unless you have doubts and fears.

I never felt settled or calm. You can't really commit to life when you feel that.

I'm so loud, as if I know what I'm on about, but deep inside, I'm so insecure. Just a little girl.

I feel confidence in myself, but at the same time there's these cracks in the facade and those little things underneath that are unstable.

It is impossible not to notice that our world is tormented by failure, hate, guilt, and fear.

I have never met anyone who wasn't confused inside.

As usual, my mind is spinning in circles...is it me? Am I making mountains out of molehills? Being too analytical? Worrying about nothing? Being emotional?

Everyone who has something is afraid of losing it, and people with nothing are worried they'll forever have nothing. Everyone is the same.

Fear and Guilt are the only enemies of man.

Anxiety is essential to the human condition. The confrontation with anxiety can relieve us from boredom, sharpen the sensitivity and assure the presence of tension that is necessary to preserve human existence.

But complex people are never certain that they are not crooks, never certain their passports are quite in order, and are, therefore, unnerved by the slightest thing.

We seldom see anybody who is not uneasy or afraid to live.

Fear ringed by doubt is my eternal moon.

Restlessness is a fickle catalyst; it can drive you to achieve or it can coax your demise, and sometimes the choice isn't yours

The author lives with one foot in an everyday world and the other feeling about anxiously for a foothold in another more precarious one.

I never felt like I was on solid ground, emotionally.

...You know the mistrust of heights is the mistrust of self, you don't know whether you're going to jump.

Most of us go through life praying a little, planning a little, jockeying for position, hoping but never being quite certain of anything, and always secretly afraid that we will miss the way. This is a tragic waste of truth and never gives rest to the heart.

He laughed a little, in an odd, nervous kind of way. "Because if I don't get going soon, the whole impetus may die--and if that happens, well, I really shall consider a long, restful plunge into insanity. Sometimes the abyss yawns very attractively.

The upheaval of our world and the upheaval in consciousness is one and the same. Everything becomes relative and therefore doubtful. And while man, hesitant and questioning, contemplates... his spirit yearns for an answer that will allay the turmoil of doubt and uncertainty.

The state of man is inconstancy, ennui, anxiety.