#stress

Reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it. ↗

— Jane Wagner

#stress #stress

A novel rough draft is like bread dough; you need to beat the crap out of it for it to rise. ↗

— Chris Baty

#rough-drafts #simile #writing #stress

A pattern of raised crisscrossed scars, some old and white, others more recent in various shades of pink and red. Exposing the stress of the structure underneath its paint ↗

— Amy Efaw

#self-harm #stress #stress

Never let stress shape your strategy. Most women think better after a brisk walk, a light meal, a massage and a nap. ↗

— Barbara Taylor Bradford

#women #stress

Procrastinating is number one of my Stupid List. You still end up exactly where you didn't want to be, doing exactly what you didn't want to do, with the only difference being you lost all that time in between, during which you could have been doing something fun. Even worse, you probably stayed in a stressed-out, scrappy mood the whole time you were avoiding it. ↗

— Karen Marie Moning

#stress

Garraty wondered how it would be, to lie in the biggest, dustiest library silence of all, dreaming endless, thoughtless dreams behind your gummed-down eyelids, dressed forever in your Sunday suit. No worries about money, success, fear, joy, pain, sorrow, sex, or love. Absolute zero. No father, mother, girlfriend, lover. The dead are orphans. No company but the silence like a moth's wing. An end to the agony of movement, to the long nightmare of going down the road. The body in peace, stillness, and order. The perfect darkness of death. How would that be? Just how would that be? ↗

— Stephen King

#dying #pain #stress #walk #death

As her analyst had told her: the deeper buried the distress, the further into the body it went. The digestive system was about as far as it could go to hide. ↗

— Richard Matheson

#dreams

Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#beauty #distress #most #much

I am never angry, although sometimes distressed. ↗

— David Rockefeller

#am #angry #distressed #i #i am

No lover, if he be of good faith, and sincere, will deny he would prefer to see his mistress dead than unfaithful. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

#deny #faith #good #good faith #his