Quotes About Anxiety

If a rat is a good model for your emotional life, you're in big trouble.

Science is a method of logical analysis of nature's operations. It has lessened human anxiety about the cosmos by demonstrating the materiality of nature's forces, and their frequent predictability.

Such is the demographic paradox of a junior physician's relationship with his patients: I worry about how to extend their lives. This anxiety inevitably shortens my own.

The Suitors Ball is fast approaching and it's a nasty reminder that my suitor will be chosen shortly. I feel sorry for the poor unfortunate guy, whichever one of them it happens to be.

Nothing is harder on the nerves than hope.

Why is your heart racing Tris?

she smiled at him, and at her own fears.

Sometimes I smile so big, I get scared that my face is gonna explode.

What's the use of worrying? It never was worthwhile.

I tried to smile like I wasn't about to die.

My smile wavers as I revert to my natural state of being: nervous and weird.

I'm more worried about you," she said. "You and trouble..." "yeah." She heard the smile in his voice. "We're like that.

Are you afraid of falling, baby? No, I'm afraid of landing. [He's laughing, and I'm smiling.] Stupid idiot smile, don't you know what comes next?

Worry adds no hours to a day, nor happiness to a smile, so it is not worth succumbing to, especially when it obscures the sight of potential.

In a competitive society, the thing people fear the most is love.

The Samurai is the first to suffer anxiety for human society, and he is the last to seek personal pleasure.

If we look at human society we see a place so difficult to live in because it is ruled by fear.

We are a society of notoriously unhappy people: lonely, anxious, depressed, destructive, dependent - people who are glad when we have killed the time we are trying so hard to save.

Fear is a distorting mirror in which anything can appear as a caricature of itself, stretched to terrible proportions; once inflamed, the imagination pursues the craziest and most unlikely possibilities. What is most absurd suddenly seems the most probable.

Something indefinite is always worse than something definite, a strong fear that doesn't last very long is easier than one that's nebulous but doesn't go away.

Volar liviano produce alegría, volar a la deriva es angustiante. El cambio es embriagador, la volatilidad es preocupante. ¿La insoportable levedad del sexo?

not to mention forever – since they fear that such a state may bring burdens and cause strains they neither feel able nor are willing to bear, and so may severely limit the freedom they need – yes, your

Living under liquid modern conditions can be compared to walking in a minefield: everyone knows an explosion might happen at any moment and in any place, but no one knows when the moment will come and where the place will be.

Los miedos que acuciaban a la gente en otras épocas se diferencian de los nuestros en que, ahora, no existe relación alguna entre aquello que provoca el miedo y lo que hacemos para combatirlo.