Quotes About Anxiety

People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now.

Though I was excited about the Sojourner Truth play, it was not reassuring to think that my entire future might depend on the success of that one show.

There is a kind of success that is indistinguishable from panic.

Sometimes it seems your ever-increasing list of things to do can leave you feeling totally undone.

Fear of failure is at least as common as the desire for success. In fact, if harnessed properly, it can be the energy that drives the wheel.

It's undeserved success that people are so terribly afraid of losing; they know they haven't any way, themselves, of ever getting it back again.

Fear goes hand-in-hand with artistic creation, and no amount of success will make the fear go away entirely.

The greater success a man has made, the more he fears a climb down.

People think I should be a success, but I'm afraid of it.

So many stars lose their way, and with success become more neurotic, not less so.

he is anxious to know how you have been employed during your long absence from him, how you have been treated by your persecutors, and if they have conducted themselves towards you with all the deference due to your rank. Finally, he is anxious to see if you have been fortunate enough to escape the bad moral influence to which you have been exposed, and which is infinitely more to be dreaded than any physical suffering;

Before we are alarmed, we see correctly; when we are alarmed, we see double; and when we have been alarmed, we see nothing but trouble.

Tuntemattomat vaarat herättävätkin eniten pelkoa.

Before one is afraid, one sees clearly; while one is afraid, one sees double; and after being afraid, one sees dimly. Danglars

For behind all present happiness is concealed a fear for the future.

Avant d'avoir peur, on voit juste ; pendant qu'on a peur, on voit double ; et après qu'on a eu peur, on voit trouble.

In those times panics were common

But there is no need to know danger in order to fear it; indeed, it may be observed, that it is usually unknown perils that inspire the greatest terror.

I've worn that mask so long I don't feel safe without it.

Egotism fears its own self.

We tell them how good they are and they light up, eager to please, and try to please us some more. These are the children we should really worry about.

I'm frightened of my own movies.

The only way for me to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.

She wishes nightmares were all that kept her awake. She cannot tell which disturbs here more, the future or the past.