Quotes About Anxiety

Don't be afraid to be afraid.

Don't be afraid to be afraid.

Her mind had snapped. It was some kind of hallucination caused by the weather, by her anxiety, by the state of the world—

What could there be about a shadow that was so terrible that she knew that there had never been before or ever would be again, anything that would chill her with a fear beyond the possibility of comfort?

There is nothing to fear except fear itself

Dr. Morrissey had always said that we found excuses to put off doing something that would take our minds off our worries. It was as if we didn't want to lose the luxury of worrying.

that Dr. Morrissey had always said that we found excuses to put off doing something that would take our minds off our worries. It was as if we didn't want to lose the luxury of worrying.

she said in a voice disguising her terror. She had seen real annoyance and impatience in his eyes.

time sickness," the "obsessive belief that 'time is getting away, that there isn't enough of it'" (qtd. in Honoré 3).

There's something truly strange about living in a historical moment in which the conservative anxiety and despair about queers bringing down civilization and its institutions (marriage, most notably) is met by the anxiety and despair so many queers feel about the failure or incapacity of queerness to bring down civilization and its institutions.

You can't concentrate on doing anything if you are thinking, "What's gonna happen if it doesn't go right?

they were not really afraid. They were just afraid of being afraid.

We are all of us not merely liable to fear, we are also prone to be afraid of being afraid, and the conquering of fear produces exhilaration

Lots of people drink when they are feeling down because they think it will chase their troubles away. That's inhibition-thinking: alcohol will unlock my good mood. But that's plainly not what happens. Sometimes alcohol cheers us up. But at other times, when an anxious person drinks they just get more anxious. Myopia theory has an answer to that puzzle: it depends on what the anxious, drunk person is doing.

the actual experience of the thing that was feared is a lot less scary than the person imagined.

Our ignorance of the unfamiliar is what fuels our fear.

The only thing you have to fear more than failure is success.

The greatest obstacle to success is the fear of failure.

Don't nourish your fears more than you nourish your hopes.

If a goal is only success oriented and not happiness oriented, then it will fill your life with stress, anxiety, and frustration.

Achievement and fearfulness can't stay together.

Overthinking, also, best known as creating problems that are never there

Wealth seldom fails to breed the fear of poverty.

Nothing can be more dreadful than the burden of failure on one's shoulders..