Quotes About Anxiety

And like everybody else in the world, his heart lodged in his throat and tried to choke him when he saw Mackey Sanders scampering along the top of the giant amplifier. But when he saw Mackey fall off, it threatened to stop.

Are you taking us to hell?" I ask, and Denise answers with an ominous, "More or less.

Rescue Remedy or similar products can help shy and fearful pets.

God doesn't say, "Don't worry too much" or "Worry only about what really matters." He says, "Do not worry.

Worry is not the same as fear; it's the practice of indulging fear, clinging to it, feeding and serving

When I allowed myself to think about the brevity of the time ahead of me, and the futility of spending any more of it on cooking and mending and gardening, it frightened me so much that I almost couldn't breathe.

children whose parents have been unfaithful are often pressured to become the caretaker of the betrayed parent, thus adding to the son's or daughter's emotional stress. Young children may be unable to articulate their anger, anxiety, and confusion. They might act out, regress, or withdraw. And when an adult child's family baggage includes lies, cheating, and the breaking of promises, they may have a particularly hard time navigating the rough waters of dating and marriage.

Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.

Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.

If I were to receive to an anonymous pair of underpants in the mail, it would really spoil my life." --André Breton

Figuring out your butterflies, deciphering what they say about the status of your mind and body, is the first step to making them work for you.

When they hand me the trophy I think about vomiting into it

but nothing feels as bad as the booing inside your own head during those ten minutes before you fall asleep.

I don't want to give voice to my problems, for fear of rousing them, making them pounce.

But I know my real fear about your growing older is not only about the millions of things that could happen. It is about how afraid I am of what I imagine as the inevitable separation that will come between us. I don't know why I am so convinced it will happen, but I am afraid that it will, and I am already mourning the loss of these days when you had no choice but to love me.

You could waste your whole life worrying, you know that?

I am an excellent driver. In my mind. When nobody's watching. I could drive circles around you. And even East Los Viva. However, there is the small issue that in the human realm, when I am driving an actual vehicle, which is rare, and there is someone in the passenger seat, which is even rarer - I have a tendency to get nervous. And a bit neurotic. Okay, fine, let's just face it. I am a terrible driver.

The "normal" family is, after all, the source of what the Devil enjoys most: anxiety, mental illness, violence, evil thoughts, fear, and social unrest. What the devil hates are attempts to escape the quotidian horror of ordinariness. These escapes into art, into otherness, must give him headaches because they might, just might, lead to innocence.

The more you worry, the more you throw off the delicate balance of hormones required for health.

Almost all the ideas we have about being a man or being a woman are so burdened with pain, anxiety, fear and self-doubt. For many of us, the confusion around this question is excruciating.

very few parents, in any age, are able to feel relaxed about the upbringing of an eldest child.

Very seldom do you look into your future with no idea of what is going to happen next. It is not a comfortable feeling, exciting but not comfortable.

If LA goes, Hollywood goes. Disaster films about LA (all great disaster films are about LA) are the entertainment that imagines a spectacular end to itself, a totalizing destruction not only of a place but of the medium, outsizing the US's doomsy anxiety about its future in the post-war to include one of its most popular industries.

I couldn't not write. Sometimes I ask myself, How do people get through life without writing? I write to calm anxiety, to process pain. Writing to me is reflection.