Quotes About Anxiety

I don't know how it is for women or for other guys, but when I was young and in my 20s, I had a fear of marriage.

My wife, whenever I'd go off to work and I'd be kind of anxious, she'll say, 'Remember, have fun.' Oh, I forgot, thanks for the reminder. Because sometimes we do forget. We take it all too seriously and there's a lot of joy to be had wherever you are.

But racism and inequality would never end if Blacks focused on easing white anxiety.

I just hope someone doesn't start the Cheese Touch up again, because I don't need that kind of stress in my life any more.

Feels more like a vacation if we're terrorized by an airport shuttle driver and frisked by TSA.

Naming our kid was a real trial. I seize up when I have to name a document on my computer. I didn't name my son after me. What if he turns into a maniac? How'd you like to be Jeffrey Dahmer, Senior?

God, Owen, what have you done?" asked Toby, stepping onto the lawn. "Why do things always get so screwed up with us?" Owen signed: Scared. "Me too.

Though I'd considered the idea of killing him a million times, once I made the decision to actually do it, I knew it had to be that night. It was sort of like that big public speaking engagement you're dreading, and you just want it to be over so you can stop worrying about it.

Stanley flipped up the toilet lid and took a long piss, terrified that he might spring a leak and hit himself in the eye.

My blood ran ice-cold as I entered Human Resources.

Like most men, Wick could not help terror about one thing erupting as anger about something else.

All I could think was, The psychologist lied to us, and suddenly the pressure of her presence far above, guarding the entrance, was pressing down on me in an intolerable way.

You know how sometimes you lie in bed at night and think, "What if the law of gravity just wears out and lets go and I drift into space?" Does that ever make you anxious?

Finally, being sensitive to the discomfort, disapproval, or anger of others probably made you quick to follow every rule as perfectly as possible, afraid to make a mistake.

Cuando pensaba en el porvenir, una avalancha de días, apretujados los unos contra los otros, se le venía encima y se venía encima de su casa y de sus hijos. Para él, los días no contaban de la misma manera que contaban para los demás.

Ya sabes que tengo miedo y que por eso traiciono...

No podía dormir: había presencias extrañas en torno a su casa, como si un maleficio lanzado contra él y su familia desde hacía muchos siglos hubiera empezado a tomar forma aquella noche.

Mental suffering occurs when a child is psychologically abused. If a parent calls a child names, constantly belittles the child, blocks every effort on the part of the child to accept him/herself, this can cause mental suffering to the child. Threat of abandonment can also make the child anxious and afraid, and is another form of mental suffering.

I have a son your age," he began, "but he's not at all like you. He's fair-haired, strong, and healthy. He likes to eat, drink, go to the pictures, laugh, sing, and go out with the girls. He has none of your anxiety, your unhappiness.

Worry is the antithesis of trust. You simply cannot do both. They are mutually exclusive.

If I am to love the Lord my God with all my mind, there will not be room in it for carnality, for pride, for anxiety, for the love of myself. How can the mind be filled with the love of the Lord and have space left over for things like that?

Fear arises when we imagine that everything depends on us.

When you and I offer our fears, worries, and anxieties to God, we give Him the opportunity to demonstrate how marvelously caring His heart really is, and we allow God to show us how deeply He cares for us.

Debemos comprender que sólo existen dos miedos: el miedo a caerse y el miedo al ruido. Todos los otros miedos han sido impuestos poco a poco en nuestra infancia por los adultos, pues proyectaban sobre nosotros sus propios miedos y los transmitían así de generación en generación