Quotes About Anxiety

Fear is the illusion that I have some control over the bad things that might happen to me.

I needed something--the distraction of another life--to alleviate fear.

I adore imaginary monsters, but I am terrified of real ones.

I will not do festivals. The thought of an audience that big frightens the life out of me.

Now, I had been frightened on several different occasions in my life. The most frightening of these involved an elevator and a mime.

Fear of the future is worse than one's present fortune.

When I fly, I'm never afraid the plane is going to crash. But there have often been times when I was afraid it wouldn't crash. I was just afraid it was going to circle O'Hare for the rest of my life.

I can't give a decent toast to save my life.

Mr. Bucchino occupies a special niche. His flowing, finely made piano ballads describe an urban single life in which relationships come and go... with high expectations, high anxiety and open hearts.

Everything in your life might be good, but there's still this notion that everything is not going to be okay, that there's more pain and suffering to come down the road.

What is my life for and what am I going to do with it? I don't know and I'm afraid.

It's a chore for a fellow to fear for his life more than once in an evening.

Our whole life is taken up with anxiety for personal security, with preparations for living, so that we really never live at all.

there is not enough interest in life to spread over twenty-four hours when one can't sleep.

I am afraid of falling into hopeless despair, over my wasted life, and I am still not sure how it happened.

The downside of being a writer is you get plenty of time to overthink your life.

You're scared of what you can't control

As it turned out, my greatest fear in life had become expectations.

I have a Woody Allen Jewish attitude to life: that it's all going to be disastrous. That it hasn't all been that way is simply down to some random quirk of fate.

With something like cancer, there is a feeling that you can fight it in some way or control your response to it, but with dementia there is the fear of losing control of your mind and your life.

I've always felt alienated. I realized that I've been terrified my entire life. So I can identify that fear which drives so many of the people that I write about.

All my life I had feared to-morrow, until I decided to have faith and to live to-day in courage.

Therapy is not to 'talk about' things, but to change the person's life, and to relieve suffering, such as depression, anxiety, or relationship problems.

Feel completely unable to do anything. Try to picture your life in five years. It really seems like you will be dead.