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“You don't realize what a strain it is on the nerves to write or think-of-writing all day long, and to sleep full of nervous dreams, and to wake up not knowing who one is: this all stems from anxiety about finishing the book, about time 'growing short', etc., and the perpetual strain of invention.”

Source: Windblown World: The Journals of Jack Kerouac, 1947-1954

“the anxiety arising from the perpetual activity of the death instinct, though never eliminated, is counteracted and kept at bay by the power of the life instinct.”

Activity Anxiety Instinct Life And Death Perpetual

Book:Envy and Gratitude

Source: Envy and Gratitude

“For forty years I have play the oboe, and still I never know what is coming out. It is a perpetual anxiety. But maybe this is good-I have never the time to get myself bored.”

Knows Years Stills Play Anxiety Bored Forty Coming Out Perpetual Oboes

Author:Marcel Tabuteau

“Freedom without security portends chaos, perpetual anxiety and fear.”

Security Anxiety Chaos Perpetual Anxiety And Fear

Author:Zygmunt Bauman

“Freedom without security portends chaos, perpetual anxiety and fear. Security without freedom means slavery. So, each on its own is awful; only together they make for a good life. But, a big "but": being both necessary, complementing each other, they are nevertheless virtually incompatible.”

Mean Bigs Together Security Anxiety Slavery Chaos Awful Good Life Perpetual Nevertheless Anxiety And Fear

Author:Zygmunt Bauman

“What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.”

Ifs Food Health Healthy Disease Anxiety Diets Perpetual Tedious Healthy Eating Healthy Diet Eating Healthy Food

Author:Alexander Pope

“The price we have paid for expecting to be so much more than our ancestors is a perpetual anxiety that we are far from being all we might be.”

Might Anxiety Paid Ancestor Expecting Perpetual

Book:Status Anxiety

Source: Status Anxiety

“Conscious attention is a designed function of the brain which scans the environment for any trouble making changes. If you identify yourself with your trouble shooter, then naturally you define yourself as being in a perpetual state of anxiety.”

Ifs States Attention Brain Environment Trouble Anxiety Conscious Function Perpetual Making Changes Define Yourself Shooter Trouble Making

Author:Alan Watts