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Quotes About Anxiety

my insides were ulcerous from coffee and terror.
~ Donald Antrim
Write about what you're afraid of.
~ Donald Barthelme
In the cab going downtown, Doug believed he now understood the sensations felt by a person slowly sinking into the grasp of an octopus. Play dead, he told himself. But how?
~ Donald E. Westlake
A terrified man can have an accident much more readily and much more quickly than a calm man.
~ Donald E. Westlake
See how the fearful chandelier trembles above you each time you open your mouth to sing. Sing.
~ Donald Justice
When we have faith and discipline everything becomes easier. Patience is the mother of all virtues. With anxiety all our lives become worse.
~ Chico Xavier
Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.
~ Antoine Rivarol
Fear is a noose that binds until it strangles.
~ Jean Toomer
Worry is most often a prideful way of thinking you have more control over life and its circumstances than you actually do
~ June Hunt
The biggest mistake you can make in your life is to be always afraid of making a mistake.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Fears are a complete waste of your time. Nine times out of ten, whatever you're afraid of is not dangerous or life threatening. In fact, it's probably not even real.
~ Sean Stephenson
Drafting is like painting the Golden Gate Bridge.The closer you get to the end, the more you start to worry about the beginning.
~ Peter James West
Though it may feel otherwise, enjoying life is no more dangerous than apprehending it with continuous anxiety and gloom.
~ Alain de Botton
Life is populated with scarecrows—all those people and things that seem so scary and trouble our sleep. Isn't it nice to know that most of them turn out to be made of nothing but straw?
~ Jerry Spinelli
Would not the sight of a single enemy airplane be enough to induce a formidable panic? Normal life would be unable to continue under the constant threat of death and imminent destruction.
~ Giulio Douhet
The first time I played the Masters, I was so nervous I drank a bottle of rum before I teed off. I shot the happiest 83 of my life.
~ Chi Chi Rodriguez
The only thing I am afraid of is fear.
~ Arthur Wellesley
I've been afraid every single day of my life, but I've gone ahead and done it anyway.
~ Georgia O'Keeffe
Worrying is a necessary part of life.
~ Mary Tyler Moore
Some of the worst things in my life never even happened.
~ Mark Twain
Your heart opens and of course you're completely panicked because you're used to guarding this organ with your life.
~ Leonard Cohen
It's not the end that I fear with each breath- It's life that scares me to death.
~ Tim McIlrath
Because we are afraid of life, we seek to control or master it.
~ Alexander Lowen
Fear is the culprit that robs us of our greatest lives. And although it's mostly made up or a learned behavior from our past, almost everybody I've ever met in my life struggles with fear.
~ Debbie Ford