Quotes About Anxiety

Perhaps they're opening up a world I'm only just starting to see the edges of. An adult world. It's scary and I don't like it.

Someone's screaming from the basement, who's going away tomorrow; and I'm no particular age. I have no fear.

I feel awkward, I don't know how to stand up among others.

He reached across the table and put both his cold hands on my face. Those hands that had—what did he say?—"opened doors of perception and windows of imagination and broken shackles of anxiety" were soft.

Always in the Big Woods when you step off alone into a new place, there will be along with...curiosity and excitement, a little nagging of dread. It is the ancient fear of the Unknown.

What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears.

As you know from school, it's when you have not prepared for the test that you have the fear of failing. And if you have prepared, even if you fail, you've done your best.

O medo de ser julgado pelos outros funciona como uma inibição paralisante.

Your unconscious wants to express the pain you feel about your own lost innocence. But your ego wants to keep it repressed. To the compromise is anxiety.

The only good thing about being frightened half to death, she thought, is that it makes me forget all about being seasick.

Oh, and I'm dependent on antianxiety meds, the only therapist I ever had died from a fall down a flight of stairs, and there's a viral video of me losing my mind at a public event, taken just before my own arrest. I'm not what anyone would call a reliable witness.

I don't think I'll ever be comfortable with the idea of being famous.

Writers write about what worries them.

the drug companies had to get an indication for bipolar disorder and then they had to advertise a conception of bipolar disorder so broad as to be unrecognizable. Antipsychotics were soon being prescribed promiscuously, even by primary care physicians, to patients with garden-variety anxiety, sleeplessness, and irritability.

The window can be fixed, Katerina. I'm far more concerned about him.

A mind is totally big enough to get lost inside - to go crazy if you're left with too much time and too much room to let your biggest fears run free.

Once they notice, they'll try to reach my dad, who is either back and going crazy or is on his way back and will begin going crazy anytime now.

In fact, I don't read as many YA novels as I used to because YA is just so good and, inevitably, I always end up in the fetal position on the floor, rocking back and forth, mumbling about how my book will never be as good as the book I just finished.

and when you're the girl known for being invisible, there's nothing quite as scary as being seen. - Cross My Heart And Hope To Spy

In the city people are moving down sidewalks, up and down escalators, along aisles; they are stationed in the driver's seat of buses, at gas pumps, computers, and cash registers. There is a low-intensity fear in them. They avoid turning in certain directions, flailing their arms or poking their hands in certain ways. They respect invisible barriers.

Future shock is the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time.

Future shock… the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time.

Today's worries are yesterday's fears and tomorrow's stories.

Because that was some mega tense awkwardness, a real 'Hello my name is Ever and I'll be your next stalker' kind of moment...