Quotes About Anxiety

I had a panic attack years ago in preparation for a very difficult show. And you cannot hear, or see, or you can't compute. It's quite terrifying.

The thing that strikes a chord with me... as a mother... is to think of my 17-year-old son fighting would be just terrifying.

Even at a McFly show, if I don't have a guitar for a few minutes... and suddenly being on my own, without my band mates and on the dance floor with no instrument and not singing, it will be absolutely terrifying.

I lived in constant terror of being asked a question in class. Even if I knew the answer, I was never able to tell it before the class.

Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

The amount of death terror experienced is closely related to the amount of life unlived.

Society feeds terror and is in turn terrorized; we are afraid to lose, so we consume.

Sleep resistance, bouts of insomnia, nightmares, night terrors, crawling into bed with parents in the middle of the night - all these are so common among children, it seems fair to call them 'normal.'

I've had one experience of writer's block in my life, and it was living hell. It was a terror for me.

I remember as a little kid, I would always feel comfortable if the light in the crack of my parents' door was on at night. When it went off, that meant they were asleep. Then that terror and the fear of being by myself started to creep in.

The terror of the ordinary is what keeps many affluent, educated parents and their kids out of the merely 'decent' schools, the ones that are simply 'fine.'

Every writer knows that unless you were born gifted with either supreme confidence or outsize ego, handing in your work holds, in some cases, admitted terror. If that's too strong, at least fairly high anxiety.

It's pretty disabling sometimes, the terror of not living up. My expectations are the worst.

I had big problems with stage fright in the past. I think, slowly, as I've gotten better at it, I've started to enjoy it. It's made me a more confident person in my normal life. I can open up and be myself in situations that used to be abject terror.

The 'war on terror' has created a culture of fear in America.

I'd say that in place of a singular phobic-level terror, I keep a whole collection of running, yet manageable, fears.

Going to school was an absolute terror for me for, like, a decade.

It's weird to take your work into a room and everybody reads it. Then comes the terror part, the dissection.

The thing about terror and why it's so interesting is that terror is there to keep us safe. But then the issue comes in: Well, how do you ever grow if you can't get past this fear? That's called suppression.

There was a clarity to the Nineties. It was pre-9/11, before that anxiety kicked in that exists right now about the financial crisis or terrorism. We were all just going to move forward into the millennium and everything was always going to get better. Then, whoops, that didn't happen.

I thought to myself, what is everyone's worst fear? Nuclear terrorism in America.

Living in a city is stressful absent terrorism.

Words can't describe how one would feel in that moment after doing a test for something you really want but in your heart you don't think you have a chance of getting.

As you know from school, it's when you have not prepared for the test that you have the fear of failing. And if you have prepared, even if you fail, you've done your best.