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Quotes About Anxiety

I cry and wonder how I'm going to fall asleep because sleeping means waking and going through all this again.
~ Samantha Schutz
I don't like this idea It is too much focus on something I am trying to forget I am afraid that this attention to detail will only fuel my anxiety
~ Samantha Schutz
The panic, a voice in the distance -loud enough to hear, but quiet enough to ignore.
~ Samantha Schutz
I cry and wonder how I am going to fall asleep because sleeping means waking and going through all this again.
~ Samantha Schutz
Putting the potential for damage into someone else's hands is scary. I have to have control, even if it is the power to self-destruct.
~ Samantha Schutz
Little whit pills for calm and quiet, for sense of a composed face in a broken mirror.
~ Samantha Schutz
It very seldom happens to man that his business is his pleasure. What is done from necessity is so often to be done when against the present inclination, and so often fills the mind with anxiety, that an habitual dislike steals upon us, and we shrink involuntarily from the remembrance of our task. This is the reason why almost every one wishes to quit his employment; he does not like another state, but is disgusted with his own.
~ Samuel Johnson
It is the fate of those who toil at the lower employments of life, to be rather driven by the fear of evil, than attracted by the prospect of good;
~ Samuel Johnson
Why should the guiltless tremble so, when the guilty can possess their minds in peace?
~ Samuel Richardson
The thing is, said Gilheeny, is that we live in constant fear of our lives. It makes the blood pressure elevate like an Arabian geyser, and the tension headaches we get would knock the balls off a bull with the twist in the maxillary sinuses themselves.
~ Samuel Shem
This was the bottomless panic at the lost smooth cheek of childhood, at no longer being young.
~ Samuel Shem
While we try to find out what happened to her, there's something you should keep in mind." Jess arched a brow. "Oh?" "If Hayes Bannock has your wife, you probably top his shit list. Be afraid.
~ Sandra Brown
If Hayes Bannock has your wife, you probably top his shit list. Be afraid.
~ Sandra Brown
dead." Her heart rate ticked up. She glanced at
~ Sandra Brown
Nonetheless, it left him with a terrible doubt, a fear that inhabited every scene.
~ Sandra Newman
By changing my thinking patterns, I have somehow become able to excrete a hormone that douses anxiety instead of fuels it.
~ Sandra Tsing Loh
I am quite sure I am more afraid of people who are themselves terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.
~ Santa Teresa de Jesús
What does it mean to redirect children out of fear that they would be unhappy?
~ Sara Ahmed
It always seemed like a snake to him, his anxiety. Waiting just out of sight, ready to slither up his spine, hissing its familiar taunt: "You aren't where you should be. Something bad is going to happen because you aren't where you should be.
~ Sara Pennypacker
Sitting and waiting for something to happen was the worst kind of torture.
~ Sara Zarr
I'm remembering how this works. How life doesn't have to be only anxiety about what's gone wrong or could go worng, and complaints about the world around you. How a person you're excited about can remind you there's stuff going on beyond... routine oil changes and homework. Stuff that matters. Stuff to look forward to.
~ Sara Zarr
I'd been in bed for an hour without falling asleep, going over my day and all the ways I had been weird at school.
~ Sara Zarr
You'll never make it through life if you let irrational fears freeze you all the time.
~ Sarah Beth Durst
It's kind of freaky to send your picture over the Internet to someone you don't really know and then have to sit waiting for their judgement on how you look. Maybe that's why my aunt Penny, who got divorced two years ago, hates online dating so much. Mom's always nagging her to go back on Match.com but Aunt Penny says she'd rather have root canal work - without anesthetic.
~ Sarah Darer Littman