Anxiety Quote by Ivor Cutler

That evening I went for a walk. To walk for the sake of walking is something I seldom do. Inside my apartment I'd felt…

— Daniel Quinn

This morning about nine I withdrew to the woods for prayer. I was in such anguish that when I arose from my knees I…

— David Brainerd

I once lay in a white hospital for the dying and the dying self, where some god pissed a rain of reason to make…

— Charles Bukowski

Sunk in the grass of an empty lot on a spring Saturday, I split the stems of milkweed and thought about ants and peach…

— Toni Morrison

Once I was lost in a forest. I was so afraid. My blood pounded in my chest and I knew my heart's strength would…

— Anne Michaels

I was walking along a path with two friends – the sun was setting – suddenly the sky turned blood red – I paused,…

— Edvard Munch

I prayed in the woods and on the mountain, even before dawn. I felt no hurt from the snow or ice or rain.

— Saint Patrick

I was walking along the road with two friends. The sun set. I felt a tinge of melancholy. Suddenly the sky became a bloody…

— Edvard Munch

I clung to nothing, in a way I was calm. But it was a horrible calm—because of my body; my body, I saw with…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

I stood looking down out of the window. The street seemed miles down. Suddenly I felt as if I'd flung myself out of the…

— Doris Lessing

I was in a garden at the Rodin Museum. For a few minutes I was alone, sitting on a bench between two long hedges…

— Irving Howe

As a teenager and into my early twenties I lived in a geodesic dome on a mountain. No running water, no phone, real rustic.…

— Samantha Hunt