Quotes About Anxiety

There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.

Fear builds its phantoms which are more fearsome than fear itself

Because they are so intimidated and worried about making mistakes, they simply don't do it.

More and more, he relied on alcohol to numb himself from the pain of his relationship with Estelle, his anxiety about Meta, the difficulties of writing, and his inability to confront crises that inevitably came his way, such as the deaths of friends and family. Certainly the death of Dean continued to flood him with guilt over his part in encouraging his brother in his career as an aviator and, indeed, selling him the plane that had brought him down.

We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck, and the house is never burgled, and the ship never goes down.

Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation...tooting, howling, screeching, booming, crashing, whistling, grinding, and trilling bolster his ego. His anxiety subsides. His inhuman void spreads monstrously like a gray vegetation.

The fears of old age disturb us, yet how few attain it?

Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.

The strongest passion is fear.

The cosmic universe owed its development to the ignorance of the highest God, to anxiety, terror, and forgetfulness...

Tia seems to have swallowed a cup of electricity for breakfast. She's jittery, pacing, talking too fast.

He was tall, dark, and handsome in his black-and-silver finery, walking as if he owned the world. Only his quick blink and the worried pucker between his eyebrows gave away the fact that he knew he didn't - not even a little piece of it.

When I wrote to him, I wanted my letters to be sprightly, trivial, indifferent. In spite of myself, I imbued them with my love. I would have liked to make it seem powerful, sure of itself and sure of me, but I infused it, despite myself, with all my anxiety.

He was experiencing minutes as light as minuets, minutes composed of anxiety and tenderness.

Deep inside him, so deep even he would not have known how to excavate it, was the rank, gangrenous fear that he was not entirely the intellectual being he had long ventriloquized.

eyes shut, dread coursing through him like a reverse meditation designed to eradicate serenity

I get so scared, I can't stop it. It's like black waves, and I'm a little cork. I bob to the surface and think I'll do okay, and then another wave comes and I'm drowning again." I

More young people are experiencing not just symptoms of depression, and not just feelings of anxiety, but clinically diagnosable major depression...

Many teens communicate with their friends electronically far more than they do face-to-face, with as-yet-unknown consequences for their budding social skills. We already know that depression and anxiety have risen at an unprecedented rate and that twice as many young teens commit suicide as just a few years ago. It seems abundantly clear that screen time needs to be cut.

In the three years I spent working on this book, making dozens of line graphs, reading campus newspapers, and listening to the stories and opinions of young people during in-depth interviews, I've realized this: iGen'ers are scared, maybe even terrified.

The timid are afraid before the danger, the cowardly while in danger, and the courageous after danger.

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.

Indeed, men who manage to defeat time by anxiously safeguarding their tomorrow, by not allowing it to stray anywhere from the past, have in effect conquered death itself.

The true fear is the fear of being afraid.