Quotes About Anxiety

I have this thing in the back of my brain that dares me to think of the most disturbing thing.

I do love 'The Turn of the Screw' - I just think that one's always so disturbing.

People were expecting Rouge to go bankrupt, so there was a lot of anxiety. The corporate culture problem was even worse than in Russia. And at the same time, the work rules were more difficult.

Between what I know I can do and want to achieve and what the audience expects, it's a lot of pressure, and it's always adding up.

In my other books, things do happen, but they are kind of bookends to the real action, which for me was an exploration of consciousness. Not that I don't get into the consciousness of the people in 'The Surrendered,' but you could say there's not as much anxiety about it.

When I was growing up, I didn't know of anybody who was trans. There was always, like, this shame, anxiety thing around all of that, even if I wasn't actively expressing it.

I get anxiety and distressed from external stimuli quite easily, so if I'm in a constant state of self-protection, it's exhausting.

Fans are afraid to meet me. They're sort of afraid for their lives and won't look me in the eye.

As fabulous as technology is, it can also make us very anxious.

As an actress I have faced the camera a lot many times but you always feel nervous before the first shot.

Fear has many faces.

I don't have anything against SyCo or 'X Factor' or any of that. I'm just a guy who got really afraid of not being in control.

I'm afraid to fail again.

My biggest enemy for the longest time was my head. When I first became successful, it made me anxious because I was overthinking everything, and you hear so many 'fail' stories.

I want to be perfect. I don't want to fail. And you always fail.

I'm really scared of failing.

I was kind of scared of failing at acting.

I'm most scared of failing, of disappointing people.

I know that I have a good career and I'm really busy, but there's always that part of my mind that's like, 'You're not doing enough, nobody knows you're alive, you're failing.'

My biggest fear, the only fear that I have is failing. I hate to fail at anything that I do and that's really my only fear in life, to be a failure.

I'm scared of failing. I'm scared to lose.

I have a fear of failure, letting someone down, contradicting myself.

In the years between 'Afterlight' and 'Legacy,' we see a Zu who has watched all of her older friends head out into the world to do meaningful work while she's made to wait and hang back because of her age. It reinforces a feeling in her that she's falling further and further behind and won't ever catch up to them.

I feel like I'm constantly falling behind. I feel like every day I'm out of the office I'm falling behind.