Quotes About Anxiety

Once such ideas began to torment him, would they ever quite leave him alone? Would they not rather increase in urgency? Would they not threaten his very existence?

His numerous legs, pitifully thin in comparison to the rest of his circumference, flickered helplessly before his eyes.

What wouldn't I do out of fear for you.

Lo que debe hacer es no tener más miedo si un fantasma viene realmente a su pieza. -Sí. Pero es que ése es el miedo secundario. El verdadero miedo es el miedo a la causa de la aparición. Y este miedo permanece, y lo tengo en gran forma dentro de mí.

My grandfather used to say: Life is astonishingly short. Now in my memory, it is so compressed that I can hardly understand, for example, how a young person can decide to ride to the next village without being afraid - that apart from accidents - even the time allotted to a normal, happy life is far too short for such a journey. (From: the next village)

Hace poco me preguntaste por qué decía que te tenía miedo. Como de costumbre, no supe qué contestarte, en parte, precisamente, por el miedo que me das, y en parte porque son demasiados los detalles que fundamentan ese miedo, muchos más de los que podría coordinar a medias mientras hablo. Su magnitud excede en mucho tanto mi memoria como mi entendimiento.

This evening out of boredom washed my hands three times in succession in the bathroom.

Hace poco me preguntaste por qué digo que te tengo miedo. Como de costumbre, no supe darte una respuesta

Il craint que la honte ne lui survive

Yes, they are hounding me.

De când m? cunosc am avut anxiet??i atât de adânci în privinÅ£a afirm?rii propriei mele existenÅ£e spirituale,încât tot restul mi-a r?mas indiferent.

What a fate, to be condemned to work for a firm where the smallest omission at once gave rise to the gravest suspicion!

I'm wildly unskilled at what I do. Part of me thinks: 'Why do I think I can pull this off?' but the part of me that has to pay the mortgage thinks: 'Just get on with it!' I'll just keep going until someone discovers I'm no good.

Do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day's own trouble be sufficient for the day.

When I looked further into my mother's history, I realised that her anxieties and her neuroses could be accounted for by facts from a very early age. Her parents, William Henry Jones and Sarah Emily, were desperately poor.

I was the one that in a very overconfident immigrant way thought I knew exactly how to raise my kids. My husband was much more typical. He had a lot of anxiety; he didn't think he knew all the right choices. And, I was the one willing to put in the hours.

All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.

I just thought at Wimbledon I was very nervous.

I threw up before every single football game I played, and I did so up through my NFL career. It was good pressure. It was pressure to be good. It was pressure to be the best. It was pressure to want to win.

I can be a real pessimist. You know that when you win an Oscar, and you walk offstage, and your first thought is: 'Oh God, I've peaked.'

Any time I wind up in the lane where you can't quickly turn off of it and it's turning into the freeway, I just start screaming until I'm off of it.

When you put the pressure on yourself, it's not good. If you fight afraid to lose, you wind up not fighting that good.

At the end of the day, my biggest fear in life is that I'm gonna wind up being an actor who plays the dad on a TV show like 'Full House' or 'Small Wonder' or something - I'm, like, the desexualized dad in the show 'Alf.'

It's times of relative calm and ease that I start to wind myself up.