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“In many cases your imagination is much more effective than what can be shown. It primes you to know something is about to happen - the anticipation and anxiety is worse than what ends up happening.”

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Author:Oren Peli

“The future is usually imagined as either better or worse than the present. If the imagined future is better, it gives you hope or pleasurable anticipation. If it is worse, it creates anxiety. Both are illusory.”

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Book:Practicing the Power of Now: Essential Teachings, Meditations, and Exercises from the Power of Now

Source: Practicing the Power of Now: Essential Teachings, Meditations, and Exercises from the Power of Now

“Royal relationships across the generations have often been strained and distant, rather than close and affectionate. Most eldest sons, interminably waiting to become king, have not been on the best of terms with the sovereign to whose death they look forward with a debilitating combination of guilt-ridden anxiety and eager anticipation. And younger sons (and daughters, too) have often found their lives empty of purpose: cut off by their royal statius, but unable to find anything rewarding with which to fill the time.”

“When you write a scene where somebody is afraid of something you instantly go to decades of genre cinema: horror, suspense, and thrillers. Those are very cinematic genres, when you shoot a close-up of someone and you can see fear in the person's face, or anticipation, or some kind of anxiety, it's a very cinematic image.”

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Author:Kleber Mendonca Filho

“Anticipation is anxiety. I have always had a very extreme anxiety thing.”

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Author:Truman Capote

“There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.”

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Author:Christian Nestell Bovee

“Some part of me can't wait to see what life's going to come up with next! Anticipation without the usual anxiety. And underneath it all is the feeling that we both belong here, just as we are, right now.”

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Book:Pihkal: A Chemical Love Story

Source: Pihkal: A Chemical Love Story

“There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.”

“Anxiety and anticipation, I was to learn, are the essential ingredients in suffering from pain, as opposed to feeling pain pure and simple.”

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Book:Autobiography of a Face

Source: Autobiography of a Face

“Anxiety is good for nothing if we can't turn it into a defense.”

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Author:Samuel Rush Meyrick

“Anxiety beclouds the future.”

Anxiety Anticipation

Book:The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)

Source: The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)

“The price we pay for anticipation of the future is anxiety about it”

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Book:Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence

Source: Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence

“But all of these hours were strained by fear, as if fear were a brooding specter, or a strange, lost bird trapped in our little town, whose sooty wing flecked every living thing with a shadow that would never wash. I didn't know what I was afraid of, nor why I worried so much, nor why this thing that could so easily cause panic felt like hope sometimes and, like hope in the darkest moments, brought such joy, unreal joy, joy with a noose tied around it. The thud my heart gave when I saw him unannounced both terrified and thrilled me. I was afraid when he showed up, afraid when he failed to, afraid when he looked at me, more frightened yet when he didn't.”

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Book:Call Me by Your Name

Source: Call Me by Your Name