Quotes About Anxiety

no le había quedado más remedio que hacerse una confesión: aún temblaba al ver pasar a Mouret, pero ahora sabía que no era de miedo.

Worrying never heads off a crisis, and it doesn't prepare you for one.

When I asked her what was the matter? answered, she didn't know; but she felt so afraid of dying!

you have a heart and nerves the same as your brother men! Why should you be anxious to conceal them? Your pride cannot blind God! You tempt him to wring them, till he forces a cry of humiliation.

Poor wretch!' I thought; 'you have a heart and nerves the same as your brother men! Why should you be anxious to conceal them? Your pride cannot blind God! You tempt him to wring them, till he forces a cry of humiliation.

Don't forget resolutions formed in the hour of fear.

I am afraid to own a Body— I am afraid to own a Soul—

I lived on dread;

The Loneliness One dare not sound— ... The Horror not to be surveyed—

Whenever you make a big decision in life, at least any decision where you have a viable alternative, there is an inevitable uneasy aftermath. Anxiety is merely a sign that you're taking something seriously.

I subscribe to the notion that if you worry about something, it is somehow less likely to happen.

On a subconscious level, I subscribe to the notion that if you worry about something, it is somehow less likely to happen. Well, I am here to say that it doesn't work like that. The very thing you fear the most can still happen anyway. And when it does, you feel that much more cheated for having feared it in the first place.

Suddenly I could imagine all the things my body might do when I wasn't there to stop it and I felt so vile they might as well have happened. Maybe they had; they just hadn't left marks. I thought about a future full of blank spaces, and I knew I couldn't bear it. If that was the future, I had to escape it.

We used to call it her Cinderella complex, because often when she had agreed to go out in the evening she would be seized by panic and announce that she had nothing to wear.

So this was liberty. Mary was beginning to recognise the taste of it in her mouth: terror salting the sweetness.

I heard a knocking in my skull, and kept running to the door, but there was never anyone there.

It felt like my teeth were sweating. Eoin Colfer's The Legend of Spud Murphy

And suddenly I was afraid. My father, the man whose shoes I had been trying to fill for two years, was awake. Would he still live up to my expectations? Would I live up to his?

Holly, I wish you wouldn't appear like that. I'm a bodyguard. I get jumpy.

Butler cleaned his gun as he spoke. He often did this in times of stress. It was a comfort thing.

Ik weet niet hoe het komt, kapitein Short, maar telkens wanneer je het met me eens dreigt te zijn, word ik bijzonder nerveus. - Root

Wowbagger felt Trillian squeeze his arm and his anxiety drained away. He looked at her. How was that possible? How did you do that?

Men are not afraid of things, but of how they view them.

So what oppresses and scares us? It is our own thoughts, obviously, What overwhelms people when they are about to leaves friends, family, old haunts and their accustomed way of life? Thoughts.