Quotes About Anxiety

I can't say I don't get nervous, but I really kind of enjoy performing now.

I like performing live more than anything. I get a little bit afraid in the studio.

There's a period just before you start a movie when you start thinking, I don't know what in the world I'm going to do. It's free-floating anxiety. In my case, though, this is over by lunch the first day of shooting.

With anxiety and depression, what's been most helpful to me has been learning a toolbox - a set of skills I can use when I'm in periods of low mood or feel an anxiety attack coming on. When Years & Years took off it felt like I needed that toolbox really quickly.

It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.

I exist in a state of almost perpetual hysteria.

I live in a perpetual state of fear.

A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.

I would say I locked into my persona pretty early; I wouldn't say it's how I am naturally, but it's how I am naturally when I'm on a stage in front of people. That anxiety makes me be the character that I am.

Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen.

There were some so afraid of death that they prayed for death.

I shall continue to be anxious about him until he can permit himself some distraction and allow his wound to heal; nothing can do this but acceptance of the inevitable, lapse of time, and surfeit of grief.

It is a long time since I have had a letter from you. "There is nothing to write about," you say: well then write and let me know just this, that "there is nothing to write about," or tell me in the good old style, If you are well that's right, I am quite well. This will do for me, for it implies everything. You think I am joking? Let me assure you I am in sober earnest. Do let me know how you are; for I cannot remain ignorant any longer without growing exceedingly anxious about you. Farewell.

Pile up gold, heap up silver, build covered walks, fill your house with slaves and the town with debtors, unless you lay to rest the passions of the soul, and put a curb on your insatiable desires, and rid yourself of fear and anxiety, you are but pouring out wine for a man in a fever, and giving honey to a man who is bilious, and laying out a sumptuous banquet for people who are suffering from dysentery

Most people come to fear not death itself, but the many terrible ways of dying.

Look down with maternal clemency, Most Blessed Virgin, upon all your children. Consider the anxiety of bishops who fear their flocks will be tormented by a terrible storm of evils. Heed the anguish of so many people, fathers and mothers of families who are uncertain about their future and beset by hardship and cares. (Christi Matri Rosarii)

Never relinquish your terrors. That's when they catch you.

Kau benar, Minke, wujud dan wajah manusia itu tetap sama, tidak lebih baik daripada di jaman-jaman sebelumnya. Khotbah-khotbah di gereja juga memperingatkan itu berulang-ulang. Dia tetap tinggal makhluk yang tak tahu apa sesungguhnya dia kehendaki. Semakin sibuk orang mencari-cari dan menemukan, semakin jelas, bahwa dia sebenarnya diburu-buru oleh kegelisahan hati sendiri.

Satria hidup dari ketakutan dunia, maka ia terus juga takut-takuti dunia.

If I were your enemy, I'd magnify your fears, making them appear insurmountable, intimidating you with enough worries until avoiding them becomes your driving motivation. I would use anxiety to cripple you, to paralyze you, leaving you indecisive, clinging to safety and sameness, always on the defensive because of what might happen. When you hear the word faith, all I'd want you to hear is "unnecessary risk.

Anxiety comes from not facing the antipathetic possibilities.

Worrying never did anyone any good

Loans and debts make worry and frets

Action is worry's worst enemy