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Quotes About Anxiety

And as far as Norma was concerned, that was the main problem with life. You never knew what was going to happen from minute to minute, and more than anything in this world, Norma hated a surprise.
~ Fannie Flagg
I realized that a new phase of exile was beginning, that from now on there would be other periods, all different, each with its own anxieties, all shattering and overwhelming, and that I would be changing too, passing from one crisis to the next until I reached the moment of truth, unique and definitive — the day on which I would either stop being an exile and return home, or unavoidably, with sadness and resignation, become an immigrant.
~ Fernando Alegria
When one of my Japanese teacups is broken, I imagine that the real cause was not the careless hand of a maid but the anxieties of the figures inhabiting the curves of that porcelain. Their grim decision to commit suicide doesn't shock me: they used the maid as one of us might use a gun.
~ Fernando Pessoa
An anxiety for being me, forever trapped in myself, floods my whole being without finding a way out, shaping me into tenderness, fear, sorrow and desolation. An inexplicable surfeit of absurd grief, a sorrow so lonely, so bereft, so metaphysically mine...
~ Fernando Pessoa
I find the slightest action impossible, as if it were some heroic deed. The mere thought of making the smallest gesture weighs on me as if it were something I was actually considering doing.
~ Fernando Pessoa
And through it all, behind my daydream, I'll feel my soul like a whistle of stark anxiety, a pure and shrill howl, useless in the world's darkness.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Tiny concerns as well as large worries distract us from ourselves, hindering the peace of mind we all aspire to, whether we know it or not.
~ Fernando Pessoa
We were born into the midst of metaphysical anguish, moral anxiety and political disquietude
~ Fernando Pessoa
My sensitivity to all things new is a constant affliction to me; I only feel safe in places I have been in before.
~ Fernando Pessoa
When it takes place, the dreaded encounter is utterly insignificant, justifying none of my anxiety, but the next time is no different: I never learn to learn.
~ Fernando Pessoa
To think of our greatest anxiety as an insignificant event, not only in the life of the universe but also in the life of our own soul, is the beginning of wisdom.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Dermot Trellis'in akli melekeleri geldiÄŸinde aral?klarla teker teker geldiler, öyle hep birden deÄŸil. Hepsi kendi ?st?raplar?yla geldiler ve sanki her an kalk?p gideceklermiÅŸ gibi akl?n s?n?r?nda endiÅŸeyle durdular.
~ Flann O'Brien
Usually by the time she had fallen asleep all the classes of people were moiling and roiling around in her head, and she would dream they were all crammed in together in a box car, being ridden off to be put in a gas oven.
~ Flannery O'Connor
trips made him nervous.
~ Flannery O'Connor
There is a fascination with fear. It grabs our attention.
~ Bernard Beckett
I hate fashion. I don't have any fun doing it. A show terrifies me.
~ Yves Saint Laurent
Most dancers have no awareness of how they look; half of them think they're fat. There is anorexia in the ballet world; there are those things.
~ Benjamin Millepied
I have a fear of being boring.
~ Christian Bale
Having a child, that's always been my biggest fear. I want a child and I fear a child.
~ Marilyn Monroe
No one should have to live in fear.
~ Jeff Fortenberry
The mark of fear is not easily removed.
~ Ernest Gaines
Do what you fear most and you control fear.
~ Tom Hopkins
I'm not ashamed to say I fear something.
~ DJ Khaled
When you went to Old Trafford, you feared what was going to happen.
~ Emile Heskey