Quotes About Anxiety

Only the fearful mind goes to catastrophic fantasies.

I got a bad feeling about this." —

In an era of stress and anxiety, when the present seems unstable and the future unlikely, the natural response is to retreat and withdraw from reality, taking recourse either in fantasies of the future or in modified visions of a half-imagined past.

Please don't worry. It's a psychological complaint, common amongst ex-librarians. You see, she thinks she's a coffee table edition...

Remember? Ohh, I wouldn't do that! Remembering's dangerous. I find the past such a worrying, anxious place. The past tense, I supposed you'd call it. Ha ha ha.

I imagine that existential dread probably ought to get a devil. A devil of post-colonial angst. A devil of complicated grief.

His sister, in a big turquoise Angora sweater, leaned upon the wood frame of the open nursery door, anxiously looking out to see if he was really going to show, beaming and waving like a pastel colored TV Muppet when she spotted him.

Does he repent him or is there only room for his fear?

For we fear not only the loss of our possessions, but the loss of our superiority and the loss of our whiteness. Some say it is true that crime is bad, but would this not be worse? Is it not better to hold what we have, and to pay the price of it with fear?

I just hate knocking on doors. I'm the same with making phone calls when I don't know who's going to answer. I'm just not very good socially.

In the psychology of aesthetics, there is a name for the moment between the anxiety of confronting something new and the satisfying click of understanding it. It is called an 'aesthetic aha.

Most consumers are simultaneously neophilic, curious to discover new things, and deeply neophobic, afraid of anything that is too new. The best hit makers are gifted at creating moments of meaning by marrying new and old, anxiety and understanding. They are architects of familiar surprises.

We might never rid ourselves of a lingering anxiety regarding our death; this is a kind of tax we pay in return for self-awareness.

Leaders often equate themselves with lions, and indulge their desire to dominate when, in fact, the point of leadership is to be secure enough to outgrow the lion within us, and enable and empower those around us. But this is not easy, as anxiety overpowers the best of leaders.

The greatest human fear is validation.

When the mind is knotted in fear, the problem is always outside, never inside.

From desire come all problems. And all desires come from fear.

But the world is constantly changing. Things will never remain constant. If we focus only on the coming & going of fortune, we will always be anxious & frustrated. On the other hand, if we focus on learning with every rise & fall, we will keep growing & generating internal Shakti rather than depending on external Durga for our survival.

Anytime fear and worry enter the picture, take warning: it is not your Father talking!

The idea of posting banns, of publicly stating his love for Caroline, of being wed—much less betrothed—gave him the squirting fits so bad he'd not trust his own arse with a fart.

No beast of prey can kill its victim without frightening him first. In fact, no animal perishes until its destroyer strikes terror into its heart. To put it succinctly, an animals fear kills it before its enemy gives it the final blow.

You know, I did not like being famous. It was a stressful and ugly time, and I'm glad it's over.

When we take deep, long, slow breaths, we can actually stop the "fight or flight" portion of our nervous system (called the sympathetic nervous system) from overreacting to different types of stress. The sympathetic nervous system goes into high gear when our brain activates it in the presence of perceived danger.

Fear brings out the basest instincts," writes British political scientist Sue Goss, "and narrows our sense of belonging to self-preservation."16