Anxiety Quote by Ben Lerner

“He often acted out of impulse just so that he could then devote his leisure hours to mulling why; he relished self-analysis, though he…

— Eleanor Catton

“Yet whenever he thought of himself as a dull, deluded opportunist, compared with other people, he always remembered the intensity of his own feelings…

— John P. Marquand

“He composed himself inwardly. Sparing the world his awkwardness, hiding vulnerability. Preserving his pride.”

— Julie Anne Long

“He could quite quickly become detached from the nuances of common human emotion. Particularly if he was engaged in some aspect of a scientific…

— Theresa Breslin

“He had spent a lot of time thinking about himself, and had come to the conclusion that he was definitely not self-absorbed.”

— Scott Meyer

“Sometimes in his arrogance he has more anxiety for the world than for himself.”

— Franz Kafka

“He was entirely rid of his nervous misgivings, of his forced aggressiveness, of the imperative desire to show himself different from his surroundings. He…

— Willa Cather

“He was left a good deal to himself. He had been inclined to talkativeness, but gradually he became silent. He began to think of…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“He was as inexpressive as he is to-day, and yet oddly obtrusive: one of those uncomfortable presences whose silence is an interruption.”

— Edith Wharton

“He was one of those people whose ideas are too lively to be confined in their brains and spill out into the world to…

— Susanna Clarke

“He didn't know what he felt. For the first time in his life, his thoughts were a jumble, tossing and turning and writing over…

— Julia Quinn

“found his conversation a strange mixture of self-laudation, showing through a flimsy veil of self-disparagement, and of satisfaction at the conviction that he was…

— Jerome K. Jerome