Quotes About Anxiety

He fretted endlessly about his company and, below the surface, was constantly on edge.

All the fortune that I have made has not served to compensate for the anxiety of that period.

Apparently he was on the edge of a nervous breakdown.

It was a self-indulgence on a magnificent scale, and a source of great anxiety and at times weakness to his firm, which could well have used the money as capital in the business if he had not spent it so lavishly.

morem pellis hispidus distentione nervorum—

Being pool-trained, I'm used to seeing four sides and a bottom. When that clarity is removed I get nervous. I imagine things. Sharks, the slippery sides of large fish, shaggy pieces of sunken frigates, dark corroded iron, currents. I can swim along the shore, my usual stroke rolled and tipped by the waves, the ribbed sandy bottom wiggling beneath me, but eventually I get spooked by the open-ended horizon, the cloudy blue thought of that sheer drop-the continental shelf.

Try Keever again. Just in case." "I don't want to. I don't want to hear him not answer." "He's either OK or he isn't. Calling him or not calling him doesn't change anything.

Some kind of a mechanism to burn off the panic she was feeling. On Friday she'd been a rich

To be afraid of a survivable thing was irrational.

Suicide bombers are easy to spot. They give out all kinds of telltale signs. Mostly because they're nervous. By definition they're all first-timers.

nervous, which might have meant that back there in the parking lot the guy's heart was going as fast as 180 beats a minute, which meant those T-waves

Sometimes you woke up, and you knew for sure, from history and experience and weary intuition, that the brand new day would bring nothing good at all.

It takes a lot of energy just to deal with life when you are neurotic and obsessive-compulsive.

Hazen thought for a moment, then concluded: "You know, even if all religions were figments of our imagination, I would choose Christianity, because it says you can be assured that you're right with God. There's no need for performance anxiety or laboring through lifetime after lifetime. As the Bible says in 1 John 5:13: 'I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life.

Yes, yes sir—routine is worry's sly assassin.

is worry's sly assassin.

Hope is ambiguous, but fear is precious.

It was at this point, visualizing too vividly another Mr. Kaplan in the class, that anxious little lines had crept around Mr. Parkhill´s eyes.

The United States is not only the strongest, but also the most terrified country.

At times as he lay in bed listening to her breathing, a fear came over him that after marriage death was the next major event.

He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss.

Colui che più possiede, è colui che più ha paura di perdere.

The fear of death came over him gradually. It was as if somebody were striking his heart a powerful blow with the fist from below.

Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.