Quotes About Anxiety

he had learned for mind control and for erasing the habit of worry that was consuming so many in our complex society.

Really. A worrisome thought is like an embryo: it starts off small but grows and grows. Soon it takes on a life of its own.

worrisome thought is like an embryo: it starts off small but grows and grows. Soon it takes on a life of its own.

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look at the toxic waste that most people put into the fertile garden of their minds every single day: the worries and anxieties, the fretting about the past, the brooding over the future and those self-created fears that wreak havoc within your inner world.

Worry drains the mind of much of its power and, sooner or later, it injures the soul.

A worrisome thought is like an embryo.It starts small but grows and grows. Soon it takes on a life of its own.

Look at the toxic waste that most people put into the fertile garden of their minds every single day: the worries and anxieties, the fretting about the past, the brooding over the future and those self-created fears that wreak havoc within your inner world. Worry drains the mind of much of its power and, sooner or later, it injures the soul.

Terror. That was it.

And then we stupidly fear one kind of death, while we have already passed and are passing so many others.

Everyday, I think about dying. About disease, starvation, violence, terrorism, war, the end of the world. It helps keep my mind off things.

It is a pain in the ass waiting around for someone to try to kill you.

As or other occasions of rest after stress with more stress pending, sleep eluded me for a time.

We were enough like Brand that I knew a particular species of fear nothing else could provoke.

And, long after the amorous relation is allayed, I keep the habit of hallucinating the being I have loved: sometimes I am still in anxiety over a telephone call that is late, and no matter who is on the line, I imagine I recognize the voice I once loved: I am an amputee who still feels pain in his missing leg.

Endlessly I sustain the discourse of the beloved's absence; actually a preposterous situation; the other is absent as referent, present as allocutory. The singular distortion generates a kind of insupportable present; I am wedged between two tenses, that of the reference and that of the allocution: you have gone (which I lament), you are here (since I am addressing you). Whereupon I know what the present, that difficult tense is: a pure portion of anxiety.

The heart is the organ of desire (the heart swells, weakens, etc., like the sexual organs), as it is held, enchanted, within the domain of the Image-repertoire. What will the world, what will the other do with my desire? That is the anxiety in which are gathered all the heart's movements, all the heart's 'problems.

In a moment of acute anxiety a year earlier, John Adams had wondered what would happen if "the multitude, the vulgar, the herd, the rabble" maintained such open defiance of authority.

He was also uncomfortable around illness, which served as an unpleasant reminder of his own mortality.

His constant nightmare was that he would promote dependence, sapping the Protestant work ethic.

They fussed over every item with that small flutter of anxiety that Junior always felt when performing a task for his father.

He even told me that anxiety and worry about the matter [i.e., university finances] had made him sick

His insecurities only worsened as he had more to lose.

In this early period, Rockefeller was a chronic worrier who labored under a great deal of self-imposed stress.