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Quotes About Anxiety

What I wasn't prepared for were the feelings of anxiety that it stirred in me. I wasn't prepared for the initial feeling of I don't want to have to do that again. I was scared.
~ Mariel Hemingway
I am a person who dreads any kind of public exposure and any kind of public event. I spend all day, if I have to do a reading, preparing.
~ Junot Diaz
An astonishing portion of my life is built around trying to evade vomiting and preparing for the eventuality that I might.
~ Scott Stossel
I'm missing work. We didn't have enough money for preschool. I had a panic attack. I couldn't do it. I became one of those horrible foster parents who give the kids back.
~ Vanessa Diffenbaugh
I'm even a little afraid of the dark. If I'm alone in the dark I'll sometimes feel that there's a presence behind me and I'll even be afraid to turn around, but then if I do get the courage to turn around, I'll just be scared that whatever was there has just jumped over to the other side of me.
~ Takashi Miike
When I am writing, and occasionally achieve single focus and presence, I finally feel that is where I'm supposed to be. Everything else is kind of anxiety.
~ Ellen Ullman
I've discovered that anxiety, panic attacks, and depression can be side effects of lupus, which can present their own challenges.
~ Selena Gomez
The present reeks of mediocrity and the atom bomb.
~ Rene Magritte
The most nerve-wracking experience is an oral presentation in class. And right under that would be doing 'Saturday Night Live' or 'David Letterman.' One of those shows.
~ Rivers Cuomo
I was a shy child. I had anxiety. I used to cry when I had to give a presentation.
~ Mandy Harvey
The interesting thing is I don't get nervous for big things. I don't know why this happens, but I will get like, puke-nervous when I'm going to do a presentation at school or go fill up my gas, but if I'm about to go on Jimmy Fallon, I am stress-free.
~ Tate McRae
I want to do presenting, I love DJing, I love writing but none of it's a guaranteed job so it's still very scary.
~ James Haskell
I was afraid of the press.
~ Leon Russell
When the press began asking me for interviews, I freaked out. My instinct is to hide.
~ Shonda Rhimes
Pressure is something you feel when you don't know what you're doing.
~ Chuck Noll
I was under so much pressure. I often felt scared.
~ Sulli
I don't know, I think, in times where I'm really nervous, and I'm really under the pressure the worst possible outcome is for me to start thinking about it. I just do.
~ Shaun White
Pressure is calming to the nervous system.
~ Temple Grandin
I feel the pressure.
~ Novak Djokovic
I think the pressure gets to me when I play shows and there's more people in the audience than I'm used to.
~ Mitski
Every young lad's dream is to play for England, but when you get the chance, there's bound to be pressure and a few nerves.
~ Harry Maguire
It would be nice at some point to do something that people expect to be good. Although then with high expectations come a lot more pressure.
~ Christopher Miller
I think going into any competition, you feel pressure.
~ Shangela
I put myself under immense pressure.
~ Jaime Winstone