Quotes About Anxiety

War's ninety-nine parts boredom and, now and then, one part arse-opening terror. Craw had a powerful sense one of those was about to drop on him from a height.

Cuando hay que hacer algo, lo mejor es no demorarlo para no tener que vivir temiéndolo.

And here it is. That horrible, beautiful, stretched out moment between stubbing your toe and feeling the hurt. How long do I have before the pain comes? How bad will it be when it does?

And so the doubts begin... Our doom draws nearer, and every man sees it. A strange thing, death. Far away, you can laugh at it, but as it comes closer it looks worse and worse. Close enough to touch, and no one laughs.

Once you've got a task to do, it's better to do it than to live with the fear of it.

But guilt only really hurts when there's nothing else to worry about.

No plague spreads quicker than panic, Stolicus wrote, nor is more deadly. The

War's ninety-nine parts boredom and, now and then, one part arse-opening terror.

Being a parent means always being afraid. Afraid for your children. Afraid of your children.

Still, as Logen Ninefingers had been so very fond of saying: it was better to do it, than to live with the fear of it.

Better to do it,' Logen whispered under his breath, 'than live with the fear of it.

Fear is like cold water. A little is a fine thing, if fixes you on what counts. But too much will freeze you.

Sometimes, when someone lives in danger for too long, the only time they feel alive is when death's breathing on their shoulder.

She looked down at them, both sleeping. Ardee on her side, one long-lashed eye closed and her mouth wide open. Harod on his back, tiny hands palm-up as if he was surrendering. So small. So perfect. So vulnerable. She remembered something her father once told her. Being a parent means always being afraid. Afraid for your children. Afraid of your children.

In the end, people don't really care much about being free. They want to be warm and well fed and to not have to worry. In particular, they want to not have to worry about being thrown off a tower for wearing the wrong shoes.

Fear is recognition of loss of control, and it subsides when control returns," he says.

For instance, when a lion was chasing your ancestors, the stress response was doing what it was designed to do—protect them from their outer environment. That's adaptive. But if, for days on end, you fret about your promotion, overfocus on your presentation to upper management, or worry about your mother being in the hospital, these situations create the same chemicals as though you were being chased by a lion.

Thought Alone Can Trigger the Human Stress Response— and Keep It Going

If you can suspend people in feelings of lack, fear, anger, opposition, prejudice, pain, sadness, and anxiety, they remain dependent on someone or something outside of them to make those feelings go away. If you remain in a perpetual state of busyness, and are always preoccupied in survival emotions, you never actually have the opportunity to believe in yourself

Between remembering stressful experiences from the past and anticipating stressful situations coming up in your future, all these repetitive short-term stresses blur together into long-term stress. Welcome to the 21st-century version of living in survival mode.

The Legacy of Negative Emotions As we keep making stress hormones, we create a host of highly addictive negative emotions, including anger, hostility, aggression, competition, hatred, frustration, fear, anxiety, jealousy, insecurity, guilt, shame, sadness, depression, hopelessness, and powerlessness,

Her sanity was a fragile thing, a butterfly cupped in her hands, that she carried with her everywhere, afraid of what would happen if she let it go - or got careless and crushed it.

It didn't make any logical sense for her to be worried, although Ig knew that worry and logic rarely traveled together.

FEAR THICKENS TIME, TURNS IT slow and viscous. One second of deeply felt terror lasts longer than ten regular seconds.