Quotes About Anxiety

Anxiety checks learning. A feeling of well being and respect stimulates an alert mind.

Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it.

Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry: Worry never fixes anything.

What worries you, masters you.

If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life - and only then will I be free to become myself.

Art is restoration: the idea is to repair the damages that are inflicted in life, to make something that is fragmented - which is what fear and anxiety do to a person - into something whole.

In egotism, one is assailed by fear, he passes his life totally troubled by fear.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.

He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn't yet lived.

Fear does not prevent death. It prevents life.

The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.

A big part of financial freedom is having your heart and mind free from worry about the what-ifs of life.

I have three phobias which, could I mute them, would make my life as slick as a sonnet, but as dull as ditch water: I hate to go to bed, I hate to get up, and I hate to be alone.

My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.

Even though no threat had revealed itself, it seemed important to eliminate any possible moment of silence. As if somehow the blankness of the walls fed off of silence, and that something might appear in the spaces between our words if we were not careful. Had I expressed this anxiety to the psychologist, she would have been worried, I know. But I was more attuned to solitude than any of us, and I would have characterized that place in that moment of our exploration as watchful.

You don't go home at night with it in your stomach, in your bones. In a few weeks, when you have seen everything, you will have been living with it for a long time, too. You will be just like us—only more so, because it is getting worse.

You can't physically fear a doll only a foot and a half high.

De haber habido algo a lo que disparar se habría sentido más tranquila; pero solo teníamos lo que acechara en nuestra imaginación.

Someone was breathing. Behind him. Someone was breathing on his neck. The knowledge froze him, froze the cry of "Jesus fuck!" in his throat. He turned with an incredible slowness..

The worst moment of any campaign is waiting for the sun to rise on the morning of the battle

Christine is too independent. No matter how anxious she feels, she forces herself to face things alone. This tendency to go to the other extreme—to act as though she does not need anybody for anything—is called counterdependence, and is a strong indication of the presence of the Dependence lifetrap.

At the root of the shy temperament is a deep fear of social judgment, one so severe it can sometimes be crippling. Introverted people don't worry unduly about whether they'll be found wanting, they just find too much socializing exhausting and would prefer either to be alone or in the company of a select few people.

What are you worried about, Burke?" "You, me, fall, friends, college, life. Nothing big.

I glance at Jax. He looks worried. So does Ollie. Hayley looks pained.