Quotes About Anxiety

Status anxiety definitely exists at a political level. Many Iraqis were annoyed with the US essentially for reasons of status: for not showing them respect, for humiliating them.

When you sit down and play your music for someone you respect, you get that feeling in your stomach of like: 'Oh my God...' You know if it's not great because you start to feel sick.

You always have nerves. And it's important to respect your nerves and your doubts. And then you have to ultimately overcome them.

Competition can damage self-esteem, create anxiety, and lead to cheating and hurt feelings. But so can romantic love.

Everyone creates what he fears.

You can't live when you're afraid of daying.

You tell me the dead are coming through a crack in my barn, but I shouldn't worry?

The quiver in her voice belied her nervousness.

My father built over me a worry big as a shipyard and I left it once, before I was finished, and he remained there with his big, empty worry.

List 2: Write down everything in your life that you don't want, like more panic attacks, depression, or partners who are emotionally unavailable. Maybe you'd like to stop smoking, or overeating, or drinking. Be specific and personal. This is about you. This will be your "before" picture.

And it seems to me that everyone is like me—they're all afraid of the slightest movement . . . Everyone's sitting all closed up in his own glass cage waiting for something.

Picture this: a human finger, cut off from its body, its hand...a separate human finger, running hopping along, all hunched over, on a glass sidewalk. I am that finger.

Picture this: a human finger, cut from its body, its hand...a separate human finger, running hopping along, all hunched over, on a glass sidewalk. I am that finger.

She felt the dampness of her palms and wiped them on the back of her black cotton skirt.

I ain't the ulcer type, but I'm always worrying about something

I'm not too big on religion ... and not very fond of politics or economics either ... And why should I be? They are the man-created trinity of terrors that ravages the earth and deceives those I care about. What mental turmoil and anxiety does any human face that is not related to one of those three?

Ever since then violent anticipation has always been an anguish rather than joy for me.

cultivation of his anxiety.

People tend to be most terrified by the inexplicable. Fear seems to fade when a possible solution arises.

The greater success a man has made, the more he fears a climb down.

We are full of fears and anxieties over our position, which makes us doubly cruel and dangerous.

Sapiens by contrast is more like a banana republic dictator. Having so recently been one of the underdogs of the savannah, we are full of fears and anxieties over our position, which makes us doubly cruel and dangerous. Many historical calamities, from deadly wars to ecological catastrophes, have resulted from this over-hasty jump.

We thought we were saving time; instead we revved up the treadmill of life to ten times its former speed and made our days more anxious and agitated.

Al haber sido hasta hace muy poco uno de los desvalidos de la sabana, estamos llenos de miedos y ansiedades acerca de nuestra posición, lo que nos hace doblemente crueles y peligrosos.