Quotes About Anxiety

Consequently, from the very advent of agriculture, worries about the future became major players in the theatre of the human mind.

El pánico es una forma de arrogancia

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.

Most people wrote and received no more than a handful of letters a month and seldom felt compelled to reply immediately. Today I receive dozens of emails each day, all from people who expect a prompt reply. 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.

In most cases, this overreaction to terrorism poses a far greater threat to our security than the terrorists themselves.

Some become anxious that their partner will leave; others feel that they have settled cheaply, and could have found someone better. And we all know people who manage to do both.

Yet even when we experience pleasant things we are never content. We either fear that the pleasure might disappear, or we hope that it will instensify

In fact, Harold had never once paid attention to his watch other than to find out the time. And, honestly, it drove his watch crazy.

You know, after the film I said to myself, "It's a good thing you were so stupid not to be nervous. If I'd been nervous, it would have ruined the whole thing."

I think it is important to ask ourselves as citizens, not as Democrats attacking the administration, but as citizens, whether a world power can really provide global leadership on the basis of fear and anxiety?

Maybe you're afraid of sinking. Don't think about it. If you don't think about it, you won't sink. If you do, you will.

No entiendo por qué tengo constantemente este presentimiento de un desastre inminente

From beginning to end I worried that Ang Lee wouldn't be satisfied with my work. So I worked as hard as I could to earn his trust, because you only get a chance like this once.

the fear of loss is greater than the desire for gain.

Worry is the most significant factor that relates to the root of negative thinking.

Cuando te centras únicamente en el dinero, o si te encuentras en una situación económica que te obliga a tener que cerrar la venta, instintivamente presionarás mucho o no pensarás más que en tu necesidad, añadiendo presión sobre ti mismo y aumentando tu sensación de ansiedad.

I hate writing. I so intensely hate writing -- I cannot tell you how much. The moment I am at the end of one project I have the idea that I didn't really succeed in telling what I wanted to tell, that I need a new project -- it's an absolute nightmare. But my whole economy of writing is in fact based on an obsessional ritual to avoid the actual act of writing.

My big fear is that if I act the way I am, people will notice that there is nothing to see. So I have to be active all the time, covering up.

I'm a child in that respect: able to live, physically speaking, on a crumb of anticipation for weeks at a time, but always in danger of crushing the waited-for event with the freight of my excessive hope.

Instead of eating too much, I'm thinking too much and I need to throw up some of these thoughts before something vile happens.

I am having a quarter-life crisis," I announced to my mother. "My generation never had those, we just had babies and thought about killing them from time to time.

Fear causes the greatest changes, when you think about it. Fear is a monumental force.

A writer's duty is to draw a picture that expresses more inner beauty, deeper anxiety, and more complex tragedy than a real character ever can.

Fear is a disease of the mind we inherit from society