The proper condition of the human is not bovine placidity. . . the highest degree of tension that can be creatively borne.
Hence the tension, the anxiety, the anguish of humanity. The more you fight with death, the more anxiety-ridden you will become, you are bound to become. That's a natural consequence of it.
Love, whether it's friendship or more, is like a cup. It fills up drop by drop, until one last drop and the cup is full. The liquid hangs there almost above the rim, hangs there on surface tension alone and you know that one more drop and it will spill over.
When people really hate one another, the tension within them can sometimes make itself felt throughout a room, like atmospheric waves, first hot, then cold, wafted backwards and forwards as if in an invisible process of air conditioning, creating a pervasive physical disturbance.
Life is not a struggle, not a tension. Life has not to be suffering. Life is bliss
True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.
I like energy. I like to feel it cracklin', I like sexual energy in a room, and I like tension.
Simply touching a difficult memory with some slight willingness to heal begins to soften the holding and tension around it. (74)
The resistance to praying is like the resistance of tightly clenched fists. This image shows a tension, a desire to cling tightly to yourself, a greediness which betrays fear.
To create tension, dialogue needs to be stretched out. That is, characters should not be immediately responsive.
I have always been drawn to characters, and this was true for my feature-writing career as well, where there is a tension between rule-breaking and rule-following.
All art is the tension, expressed between the uncontainable and its one perfect inevitable form.
All negativity is caused by an accumulation of psychological time and denial of the present. Unease, anxiety, tension, stress, worry - all forms of fear - are caused by too much future, and not enough presence. Guilt, regret, resentment, grievances, sadness, bitterness, and all forms of nonforgiveness are caused by too much past, and not enough presence.
Every day, there's that tension and the pressure. Each scene that you shoot is like getting to that next step, but there's still that mountain to climb. So it's not like one day is harder or one scene is harder. They are all equally challenging.
The gigantic tension before the shooting of an arrow, and the total relaxation seconds later, is my way of connecting to the universe.
It takes confidence and guts to intentionally create tension.
The attraction of dating is that you don't take yes for granted - - you're fully engaged, there's seductiveness, tension.
The tension between the essence of spiritual teachings and the harmful fundamentalism that often arises in the name of religion is an issue that has engaged my mind practically as far back as I can remember.
In journalism, there has always been a tension between getting it first and getting it right.
In the theater there is often a tension, almost a contradiction, between the way real people would think and behave, and a kind of imposed dramaticness.