Beset Quotes

The simple fact of existence, of being aware that you are aware; this to me is the most astounding fact. And I think that it has something to do with dying. When you are a kid you are beset by fears and you think, `I`ll solve the fear by living for ever and becoming a movie star.` But I am not going to live for ever. And the more I know it, the more amazed I am by being here at all. I am so thrilled by the privilege of life, and yet at the same time I know that I have to let it go.

Among the many problems which beset the novelist, not the least weighty is the choice of the moment at which to begin his novel.

Getting married, for me, was the best thing I ever did. I was suddenly beset with an immense sense of release, that we have something more important than our separate selves, and that is the marriage. There`s immense happiness that can come from working towards that.

Two problems that have beset London Underground for years -- poor project management and industrial relations -- have come together to close a whole line.

A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back - it is already so far.

Beset by a difficult problem? Now is your chance to shine. Pick yourself up, get to work and get triumphantly through it.