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Quotes About Panic

There's no greater chaos than when swift, violent death knocks on the door of an unsuspecting crowd.
~ baldacci david iii
after my diagnosis, I panicked every time I felt a pain. Then I decided that hope was a better way to go. I choose to believe that I'll live to grow old.
~ Barbara Delinsky
clients. They're always there. You do have to worry, and look at the practice you've built. Give me a rundown on today's list." Casey could count on Brianna to boost her morale. "Two phobias, the low self-esteem, three adjustment disorders, and one panic attack.
~ Barbara Delinsky
Fear can keep you alive. The trick is not to let it overwhelm you. Not to let it rule you. If you're afraid, that's the universe trying to tell you something. Get away. Don't run; don't panic. Just pick up and walk out, calm as you please. Panic makes you stupid.
~ Barry Lyga
Fear breeds superstition.
~ Baruch Spinoza
Nothing beats SoulCycle for dumbing all the way out or re-calibrating a mood in less than an hour, which is reassuring, since I typically wake up in a panic that's candy-coated with a low-grade rage.
~ Mary H.K. Choi
'Nothing's Real' is about my first-ever panic attack, which I had about four months after getting my record deal.
~ Shura
Room 101,' he said.
~ George Orwell
But, he realised, even in his panic he had not wanted to smudge the creamy paper by shutting the book while the ink was wet.
~ George Orwell
Suddenly his heart seemed to turn to ice and his bowels to water.
~ George Orwell
His bowels seemed to turn to water.
~ George Orwell
In my experience, the human mind, when under the influence of fear, rushes round in frantic circles.
~ Georgette Heyer
One second of true fear beats hours of anything else.
~ Gian Sardar
I have tried to keep my eco-anxiety at bay, to box it into my working life. But every month this becomes more difficult. The rising sense of panic I feel is entirely rational; we should all be feeling it. But we can't live with it through every hour of every day.
~ George Monbiot
The 'Burials' title really speaks to all the different levels that are on the record. It speaks to silence and panic and anxiety and loss of self and isolation and those different levels of hiding.
~ Davey Havok
When I was 13 or 14, my parents had a bit of a windfall so bought a lovely new kitchen, but I burnt it down. I was making cheese on toast when flames escaped from the grill. My father stopped the fire with blind panic and excessive water. I was forgiven, but it put me off cooking for years.
~ Erin O'Connor
Uncertainty is more contagious than the plague. Cesare
~ Sarah Dunant
Watching me, judging me, smelling the crippling failure oozing from my skin, my desperation clawing and all-consuming panic drenching me as I gape in horror at the world and wonder why everyone is smiling and looking at me with secret knowledge of my aching shame.
~ Sarah Kane
Eva se dejó caer en la silla. –Ahora voy a tener que darte mi pañuelo nuevo y puede que, ya de paso, necesite un sistema nervioso nuevo. No estoy hecha para tanto drama. –¿Estás de coña? –Frankie se levantó y empezó a recoger la mesa–. Tú inventaste el drama. Podrías casarte con el drama, tener hijos con él, que por cierto se llamarían Crisis y Pánico, y viviríais felices para siempre.
~ Sarah Morgan
I get Weekend Panic, although less and less these days. Weekend Panic is when you think you should be doing bigger things, farther out of town, all perfectly planned ahead. And the fact that it's Saturday morning and a whole heap of nothing is ahead of you sends you into a FOMO (Fear of Missing Out) spin.
~ Sarah Wilson
I said earlier that making decisions is a key anxiety trigger, If we drill down a bit we can see that this happens because we work to the belief there's a perfect decision out there to be made. But such a thing doesn't exist. And clutching at something that doesn't exist is enough to send anyone into a drowning panic.
~ Sarah Wilson
In the glass burrow beneath their feet, the flames began to rise. First the flames, and then the screams
~ Scott Lynch
I think it's fair to say most video games let players experience only eight emotions: anger, panic, dread, surprise, wonder, satisfaction, joy and disappointment. And some games only disappoint.
~ Scott Rogers
panic disorder with agoraphobia (DSM-V code 300.22): the condition, as Hippocrates described it, "usually attacks abroad, if a person is travelling a lonely road somewhere, and fear seizes him.
~ Scott Stossel