Quotes About Anxiety

It's not even the other kids, because fuck them. It's me. My anxiety. I do this thing after I'm around people where I obsessively overanalyze every interaction to see where I went wrong or who I offended.

All I could think of was that the teachers must've found the illegal stash of candy I'd been selling out of my dorms room. Or maybe they'd realized I got my Essay on Tom Sawyer from the Internet without ever reading the book and now they were going to take away my grade. Or worse, they were going to make me read the book.

The more you pray, the less you'll panic. The more you worship, the less you worry. You'll feel more patient and less pressured.

The more you pray, the less you'll panic. The more you worship, the less you worry. You'll feel more patient and less pressured.

I always felt like my future was at stake every time I stepped on stage and that was kind of hair-raising. At some point I just went, don't be frightened, you can't do anything wrong, it's your show.

Well, I am now convinced there is no kind of fear or anxiety anyone has to live with.

For inst. when the telephone rings now days I am scared to death that its somebody asking us to go somewheres for dinner or somewheres. Six yrs. ago I was afraid it wasn't. At 29 home was like they say on the vaudeville stage, a place to go when all the other joints was closed up. At 35 its a place you never leave without a loud squawk.

I was often overwhelmed as a boy by feelings of anxiety, and by profound embarrassment about the kind of family that I came from, my fears made worse by my inability to share them with anyone else or even to comprehend what they meant.

Someday, when historians perform their "why the Mayans declined" necropsy on American society, they will marvel at the way that, at a time of high anxiety about energy resources and costs, millions of elderly people took to the road in the clumsiest, most inefficient vehicles ever devised by man. The lunacy of America is all right there, in the RVs.

If I'm driving to L.A. and have anxiety about making the drive, if I've got Peggy with me, we're cool.

From my own experience, I realized that there are many other reasons we procrastinate, starting with fear.

If you pray why worry, and if you worry, why pray.

I was asking my friend who has children, "What if I have a baby and I dedicate my life to it and it grows up to hate me. And it blames everything wrong with its life on me." And she said, "What do you mean, 'if'?"

I want to have children, but my friends scare me. One of my friends told me she was in labor for thirty-six hours. I don't even want to do anything that feels good for thirty-six hours.

People that are hiding something deep within themselves, will live a life cloaked in total anxiety.

The fear of failure has killed many of hopes and dreams.

A writer of fiction lives in fear. Each new day demands new ideas and he can never be sure whether he is going to come up with them or not.

It's all right to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation

Learning to drive is a scary thing for a parent. I had to basically lie to get the keys when I was a kid.

Not being able to protect her from things was the most frightening thing I'd ever felt, and it kicked in as soon as we got together. With every year we spent together, I became more conscious that I now had an infinitely expanding number of reasons to be afraid. I had something to lose.

I was too scared to talk, but I was more scared to not talk.

This talk of exploding spleens scared the hell out of me. I went back to the apartment and told Dominique what the doctor had said and that he had advised me not to participate in the natural childbirth. She thought it all sounded preposterous. "If anybody's going to explode, it's me if I don't have this baby soon.

As a result of this dependency, every child's greatest fear is abandonment. To children, abandonment means death. Second

The unpredictability of not having their needs met in a timely, judicious fashion was not only frightening, it was potentially life-threatening.