Excitement Quotes

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Charlotte Eriksson
“Dear world, I am excited to be alive in you, and I am thankful for another year.”
Charlotte Eriksson

Joseph Campbell
“You can get a lot of work done if you stay with it and are excited and its play instead of work.”
Joseph Campbell, The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life & Work

Maggie Nelson
“To take a breath of water: does the thought panic or excite you?”
Maggie Nelson, Bluets

Shannon L. Alder
“The empty spaces of your soul are the ones you search for, pray for and want so desperately to be filled. They are also the spaces that will never be filled, until you are ready to do something you have never done.”
Shannon L. Alder

Robin Hobb
“Why does the forbidden always add that edge of sweetness?”
Robin Hobb, City of Dragons

Sanober  Khan
“Turn your fears into excitement.
Your anxieties into enthusiasm.
Your passion into energy.”
Sanober Khan

“There is something I just realized
That I never knew before.
I can't explain the reasons,
But I know that I want more.”
Guess!

“I think it’s glorious to be nervous. Being nervous is great! How often do we get nervous on a daily basis? Being slightly nervous means you care, and you’re alive, and you’re taking some kind of risk. Hooray for being nervous! A friend told me to substitute the word ‘excitement’ for ‘nervous’. That way you acknowledge the physical feelings without putting a negative spin on things. So to answer your question, sometimes I still get so excited about ‘Update’ that I want to throw up”
Amy Poehler

Andrew McMillan
“Being one’s true and honest self can often be dangerous; and poetry should always be a place where, if only between the pages, that danger and energy and fear and excitement and love can fizz and spark without ever threatening to burn something down.”
Andrew McMillan

Shannon L. Alder
“Extraordinary change can happen in your life, but it will take extraordinary people, extraordinary courage and extraordinary faith to believe that this won't be a repeat of your past.”
Shannon L. Alder

Jennifer L. Armentrout
“My toes curled against the soft leather sofa pf my flip-flops and my throat felt scratchy as i forced the words out. "I'm...I'm new."
There! I did it. I spoke.
Take that, everyone! Words were totally my bitch.”
Jennifer L. Armentrout, The Problem with Forever

Elizabeth Gilbert
“When I don't know what I'm doing, I look like I don't know what I'm doing. When I'm excited or nervous, I look excited or nervous. And when I am lost, which is frequently, I look lost.”
Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

Amaka Imani Nkosazana
“Loving yourself is of vital importance. Because there is no way you'll love another soul if you fail to have self love. Embrace your beautiful spirit and shine light for those who may be living in the dark. You are human and your heart is designed to love and live. You can not be open to love if you're not loving yourself.”
Amaka Imani Nkosazana, Sweet Destiny

Stephen Fry
“He was one of a long line of mimsy and embittered middle-class sensitives who disguised their feeble and decadent lust as something spiritual and Socratic.

And why not? If it meant he had to end his days on some Mediterranean island writing lyric prose for Faber and Faber and literary criticism for the New Statesman, running through successions of houseboys and 'secretaries', getting sloshed on Fernet Branca and having to pay off the Chief of Police every six months, then so be it. Better than driving to the office in the rain.”
Stephen Fry, The Liar

Natsume Sōseki
“There was nothing so very unfamiliar about the excitement she was feeling, and yet it felt always like a new excitement. It was, in other words, a perennially unfamiliar feeling.”
Natsume Sōseki, Light and Darkness

“Joining a gang is like sky diving without a parachute. Oh, at first it’s all fun, as you take on gravity in a thrilling and exhilarating free fall towards earth. The truth is, anything that is risky and dangerous always starts out as fun. But the odds are always stacked in gravity’s favor, for you will eventually come face to face with the earth, and mother earth always wins those battles. The same thing can be said about being in a gang.”
Drexel Deal, The Fight of My Life is Wrapped Up in My Father

Debasish Mridha
“It is uncertainty which fills life with beauty, excitement, and joy.”
Debasish Mridha

Nadlee Thims
“If you put your heart into it, you can write 30 sex scenes and have each one be different, and just as exciting as the one before it.”
Nadlee Thims, Mr. Montgomery

Poul Anderson
“I'll have to jump around like sodium in the rain.”
Poul Anderson, A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows

Sherry Turkle
“Rapture is costly; it usually means you are overlooking consequences.”
Sherry Turkle, Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other

Elena Ferrante
“I soon had to admit that what I did by myself couldn't excite me, only what Lila touched became important.”
Elena Ferrante

“The numbers really grew when we were at war, when all the fellas who used to be inside their homes watching TV saw that the action movies they were watching inside were actually happening outside, and so they came out of their homes to join the fun, because even though we were firing real guns, it was all a game for most of us. Scrooge, former leader of the Rebellion Raiders street gang that once boasted of having some ten thousand members”
Drexel Deal, The Fight of My Life is Wrapped Up in My Father

Jane Green
“She walks along the pavement, lost in thoughts about the Internet, so deeply immersed that before she knows it she's at her front door, and guess what? She completely forgot to buy some chocolate on the war home.”
Jane Green, Jemima J

Amaka Imani Nkosazana
“No one can destroy the love God has for you. When you abide in truth, you also abide in love. And truth is evidence of love. Nothing can destroy the power of trusting and loving unconditionally.”
Amaka Imani Nkosazana

Jen Selinsky
“I can't think of too many things as exciting as reading a book for the first time!”
Jen Selinsky

Eric Berlin
“Winston and his sister walked for a time in silence, each in an invisible, vibrating pocket of excitement.”
Eric Berlin, The Puzzling World of Winston Breen

Lauren Lola
“Lay out your options, dismiss the ones that are of zero appeal, and focus on those that not only excite you, but make sense to you.”
Lauren Lola, An Absolute Mind