Nerves Quotes

Your worst enemy, he reflected, was your own nervous system. At any moment the tension inside you was liable to translate itself into some visible symptom.

George Orwell

1984

You know, you're much too tense. You're a young man. You need to relax. Learn to take some joy in your work.

— I'm a little nervous.
— Just think of them as something friendly.
— For example?
— Like a firing squad.

Tootsie

Dorothy Michaels / Michael Dorsey

Julie Nichols

funeral

Ironic Quotes

If I didn't think, I'd be much happier; if I didn't have any sex organs, I wouldn't waver on the brink of nervous emotion and tears all the time.

Sylvia Plath

thoughts

worry

I learned early on to stay away from gossip magazines and reviews. That stuff just makes you unhappy, and I know actors that read everything that's written about them and they're miserable. You can choose what to let into your life.

John Travolta

actor

life

I don't give a fuck! I don't have an ulcer because I know when to say that.

Daniel. When I take the stand, you'll see nothing but a granite wall.

— No offense, Earl, but you're nervous as a Chihuahua.
— I'm not nervous. I'm alert.
— Whatever.

Tremors 2: Aftershocks

One of the symptoms of approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important, and that to take a holiday would bring all kinds of disaster.

Bertrand Russell

The Conquest of Happiness

— I'll tell you what I'll do. I shall write to Mr. Bingley, informing him...that I have five daughters, and he is welcome to any of them. They're all silly and ignorant, like other girls. Well, Lizzy has more wit than the rest. But he may prefer a stupid wife, as others have done before him. There, will that do?
— No! I beg you will not write if you... You take delight in vexing me! You have no compassion on my poor nerves!
— You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They've been my old friends for 20 years least.

Pride & Prejudice (1995)