Quotes: Nerves

I couldn’t sleep for two years, they tried to break my nerves. They used a lot of psychology to brainwash.

Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerves give to wisdom.

I have been on the same dose of anti-depressants for 15 years, and my nerves still go up and down in cycles; but my nerves are cycling at a lower level than they were before.

It destroys one’s nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.

That’s the way I like it because there’s no time to have nerves about it. You just run out and do it.

Nerves provide me with energy… It’s when I don’t have them, when I feel at ease, that’s when I get worried.

I think the whole nerves thing comes into play when we worry about what other people and society will think.

In our story logic which we’re making up, if we’re saying he’s alive, then like a quadriplegic who’s in bed he can move his head and shoulders, but he can’t move his arms. If he could just turn on that power to his legs and arms, the nerves could get through and he could walk.

I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more.

He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.