Dashiell Hammett Quotes

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.

It takes a real storm in the average person's life to make him realize how much worrying he has done over the squalls.

Everybody feels good in their skin for about a minute a day, and the rest of the day, you're just trying to navigate your way through the sea of terror.

If they have covered your face with latex, you have to control yourself mentally so you won't think. If you start thinking, you will succumb to panic. I had a bit of a cold, and frankly I didn't have a good time.

No good work is ever done while the heart is hot and anxious and fretted.

I really wish I worried less.

Yes, people can crack under pressure, but I think people can also let things slip out when they're comfortable.

Please don't tell me there's no need to worry, it's the only thing I'm any good at.

I always have the feeling in these low states that something good is about to happen. That's when I feel the fullest, the rawest, the closest to myself.

I'm a very nervy kind of person, who finds it almost impossible to relax.

Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.

The hardest thing to write was explaining what anxiety feels like. Every time I'd try to really write about what it feels like to have an anxiety attack, I would actually have an anxiety attack. It was good material but so incredibly uncomfortable.

I worry too much.

Stress is something that is sort of out of your control. You get stressed out over looking at the finish line. Stress is something that is an outside thing. Stress is an anxiety.

Stress is not the spice of life any more than arsenic is. And without it, you won't feel bored.

My roommates are all such happy-go-lucky guys, and I carry some of the stress around a lot more.

You're playing a game, whether it's Little League or Game 7 of the Word Series. It's impossible to do well unless you're having a good time. People talk about pressure. Yeah, there's pressure. But I just look at it as fun.

People who suffer from anxiety are very good at hiding it. That can often be a contributor to the anxiety because the gap between the internal perception and the external impression can feel so large.

To grapple with and understand anxiety is, in some sense, to grapple with and understand the human condition.

I hadn't even released my first proper single when I started to feel the strain of attention. But I don't believe that it was the attention that was giving me panic attacks. I think it was everything in my life colliding at the same time. It really did get to a serious point where I couldn't even walk down the street without getting the pain.

The way that people feel changes everything. Feelings are forces. They cause us to time travel. And to leave ourselves, to leave our bodies. I would be that kind of psychologist who says, 'You're absolutely right - there are monsters under the bed.'

Time is what the depressed and panicked lack.

I know what I have to do and I plan to do it. It's a good time to get it done and get it behind me. It's treatable, so why not treat it now? My family will give me comfort but I have to do this alone.

I don't think I could, with a straight face, describe myself as a completely positive person, but I'm not overly negative, either. On the whole, most writers think plots through to their consequences, and it's not always a sunny place. I have an occupational temperament for anxiety.

True relaxation, which would do me the world of good, does not exist for me.