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“I sometimes say the conflict in the work is the conflict of my own thoughts and anxieties. It's a civil war in my head. The top part [of my artwork] is you letting go and floating. You become part of the air and you've tapped into the heartbeat of the universe. I guess that's what people do when they meditate.”

People Heart War Sometimes Universe My Own Air Conflict Letting Go Anxiety Civil War Floating Heartbeat Artwork

Author:Ali Banisadr

“God knows we have our own demons to be cast out, our own uncleanness to be cleansed. Neurotic anxiety happens to be my own particular demon, a floating sense of doom that has ruined many of what could have been, should have been, the happiest days of my life, and more than a few times in my life I have been raised from such ruins, which is another way of saying that more than a few times in my life I have been raised from death - death of the spirit anyway, death of the heart - by the healing power that Jesus calls us both to heal with and to be healed by.”

“Psychologists call it "free-floating" anxiety. What contradictory words. Anxiety doesn't free-float. It stalks. It attacks. It lands on you with a thud.”

Land Anxiety Floating Floats Contradictory Psychologist Stalking

Author:Martha Manning

“There's a period just before you start a movie when you start thinking, I don't know what in the world I'm going to do. It's free-floating anxiety. In my case, though, this is over by lunch the first day of shooting.”

Thinking Knows World Firsts Actors Cases Periods Anxiety Shooting Movie Lunch Floating

Author:Jack Nicholson

“our real fears are the sounds of footsteps walking in the corridors of our minds, and the anxieties, the phantom floatings, they create.”

Mind Real Sound Walking Anxiety Floating Footsteps Phantoms Corridors

Book:Truman Capote: Conversations

Source: Truman Capote: Conversations

“Panic---a deep abiding, free-floating anxiety, often without any reason or logical basis.”

Reason Anxiety Bases Logical Panic Floating Abiding

Author:Nelson DeMille

“American energy. . . is the energy of violence, of free-floating resentment and anxiety unleashed by chronic cultural dislocations which must be, for the most part, ferociously sublimated. This energy has mainly been sublimated into crude materialism”

Energy Violence Anxiety Materialism Resentment Floating Crude Unleashed Dislocation

Author:Susan Sontag