Quotes About Anxiety

Anxiety is the price tag on human freedom

What worried him the most, however, wasn't that it was too late. What worried him the most, what really ate at his insides, was the fear that it wasn't too late.

Jo loved a few persons very dearly and dreaded to have their affection lost or lessened in any way.

feeling as if all the happiness and support of their lives was about to be taken from them.

It may be vain and wrong to say it, but- I'm afraid- Laurie is getting too fond of me. Then you don't care for him in the way it is evident he begins to care for you? And Mrs March looked anxious as she put the question. Mercy, no! I love the dear boy, as I always have, and am immensely proud of him, but as for anything more, it's out of the question.

But I am afraid I don't

I think anxiety is very interesting," observed Amy, eating sugar pensively.

Her heart sunk within her, for the shadow of his presence seemed to fall darkly over all her future.

Somewhat paranoid to begin with, he assumed every tradesman was an extortion artist

Of all the family medical problems, the most worrisome was that of Bessie.

Hamilton said, "A nation without a national government is, in my view, an awful spectacle. The establishment of a constitution in [a] time of profound peace by the voluntary consent of a whole people is a prodigy, to the completion of which I look forward with trembling anxiety.

For such a perfectionist, giving money away was fraught with far more nervous tension than making it.

All over town kids lay awake & wondered: Am I smart enough, pretty enough, strong enough, tall enough? If our fears were smoke, the town would be covered night & day by an inky pall.

Paranoia is sometimes the best way a person can handle situations in life.

Cuncta fessa. Que quiere decir: Todo el mundo está cansado. El cansancio ante la inseguridad política y social es lo que llevó a Roma a perder sus derechos y sus libertades. El miedo provoca hambre de autoritarismo en las personas. Es un pésimo consejero el miedo.

El miedo es un parásito, un invasor.

Mis ataques de pánico han sido como una excursión razonablemente segura y sin verdadero peligro al otro lado del turbulento río de la psicosis.

Cuando uno se libera del espejismo de la propia importancia, todo da menos miedo.

Tengo miedo de una cosa que vive y que no se ve. Tengo miedo a la desgracia traidora que viene, y que nunca se sabe dónde viene. Adrianie, donde estas.

disaster relayed is often more frightening than the horror itself

Uncertainty is always hell.

admire the ingenuity that goes into this but I am not at all convinced that such people have quite got the right end of the stick. Does God really want us to know, in exact detail, ancient Babylonian history? I suspect not. But I am confident that God does want us to know how people in circumstances of acute displacement, living with the fear and the anxiety of a persecuted minority, responded to a hostile state and a pagan power.

Many terrible things begin with B: blindness, boilers, bats, bridges, and brain tumors. But no one brings any of those to a party to up the fun quotient. When I look at a balloon, all I see is an imminent explosion. Where's the fun in that?

My rabies fear started with To Kill a Mockingbird, the same way my appendicitis fear started with Madeline, and my brain tumor fear started with Death Be Not Proud. On an ideal planet, children's books wouldn't be censored for references to sex, but for illness.