Noun
control of your emotions
an uneasy psychological state
Source: WordNetHow is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god. Alan Watts
I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more. E. E. Cummings
Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays. Oscar Wilde
Life is a compromise of what your ego wants to do, what experience tells you to do, and what your nerves let you do. Walter Bagehot
Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent. Virginia Woolf
Acting can truly take a toll on your nerves. I mean we have to be larger than life. Worse, I've seen actors acting off the sets too. Preity Zinta