Quotes About Anxiety

There's something wrong… There's something wrong with almost everything.

Worry comes from the belief you are powerless.

The understanding of fear cures fear.

We fear the thing we want the most.

Horror is the natural reaction to the last 5,000 years of history.

The fear of death is the beginning of slavery.

Anyone in the United States today who isn't paranoid must be crazy.

I'm not usually sold on epiphanies. I am more interested in the opposite experience: not those rare moments of startling insight or realization, but-what I suspect are more common-those sudden flashes of anxious confusion and bewilderment.

Cuando tienes miedo no puedes pensar con claridad

El riesgo por temor resulta ser de verdad peligroso y ciertamente temible.

Tell us your phobias, and we will tell you what you are afraid of.

Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.

Suspense is worst than disappointment.

Mrs Frisby could not bear to watch; and yet, even more, she could not bear not to watch. She

The English language may hold a more disagreeable combination of words than "The doctor will see you now." I am willing to concede something to the phrase "Have you anything to say before the current is turned on?" That may be worse for the moment, but it doesn't last so long. For continued, unmitigating depression, I know nothing to equal "The doctor will see you now." But I'm not narrow-minded about it. I'm willing to consider other possibilities.

I made a fatuous remark about how badly people behave when they're frightened

feeling angry and sorry for ourselves, or we opt for distractions and quick ways to dull the pain. This becomes a habit we cannot shake, and we tend to feel the generalized anxiety and emptiness that come from all this avoidance.

Animals feel fear for a brief time, then it is gone. We dwell on our fears, intensifying them and making them last well past the moment of danger, even to the point of feeling constant anxiety.

The only solution is the following: We must learn how to quiet the anxiety we feel whenever we are confronted with anything that seems complex or chaotic. In our journey from apprenticeship to mastery we must patiently learn the various parts and skills that are required, never looking too far ahead. In moments of perceived crisis, we must develop the habit of maintaining our cool and never overreacting.

fear is an emotion we find hard to resist or control

In fact fear is probably the strongest human emotion, period. Whoever woke at four in the morning because they were feeling happy?

Really, take it from me: it is always the unknown that is most frightening.

war was long stretches of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror.

I know the internet is the stuff a paranoiac's dreams are made of.