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Quotes About Anxiety

Every footfall, every voice was Don Achille creeping up behind us or coming down toward us with a long knife, the kind used for slicing open a chicken breast. There was an odor of sautéing garlic. Maria, Don Achille's wife, would put me in the pan of boiling oil, the children would eat me, he would suck my head the way my father did with mullets.
~ Elena Ferrante
Temía que en mi ausencia le ocurrieran cosas, buenas o malas. Era un temor antiguo, un temor que no había superado: el miedo de que al perderme trozos de su vida, la mía perdiera intensidad e importancia.
~ Elena Ferrante
I became anxious if I lost him, I was happy when I saw him return. In other words I loved him and new it and was content to love him.
~ Elena Ferrante
I became anxious if I lost him, I was happy when I saw him return. In other words I loved him and knew it and was content to love him.
~ Elena Ferrante
Ich würde immer Angst haben: Angst davor, einen falschen Satz zu sagen, einen übertriebenen Ton anzuschlagen, unpassend gekleidet zu sein, kleinliche Gefühle zu offenbaren, keine interessanten Gedanken zu haben.
~ Elena Ferrante
I don't want my mother to die worrying about her sons." "Comfort her." "How." She smiled. "With lies. Lies are better than tranquilizers.
~ Elena Ferrante
Tiene miedo, dijo, siempre fue así; tiene miedo de las enfermedades y la muerte. Giannì, todas las personas soberbias, todas las que se lo tienen muy creído hacen como si la muerte no existiera.
~ Elena Ferrante
I had too many worries and, whatever I did, the feeling of always being in the wrong.
~ Elena Ferrante
Suurin osa äideistä suhtautui kalseasti vapaana juokseviin koiriin. He siirsivät muut ahdistuksenaiheensa eläimiin.
~ Elena Ferrante
dull things of every day, she was afraid of the silence of
~ Elena Ferrante
She was submissive, she gave in immediately out of fear of not being liked, it depressed her that she had given in.
~ Elena Ferrante
Recordaba un tono despreciativo que yo había adoptado, ciertos fragmentos de la charla con la que había tratado de impresionar, y me entraba una sensación de frío y náuseas, quería echarme de mí misma, como si fuera a vomitarme.
~ Elena Ferrante
connection between anxiety and ugliness unexpectedly consoled me.
~ Elena Ferrante
Am meisten fürchten müssen wir uns vor der Raserei verängstigter Menschen.
~ Elena Ferrante
I simply decided once and for all to liberate myself from the anxiety of notoriety and the urge to be a part of that circle of successful people, those who believe they have won who-knows-what
~ Elena Ferrante
I would always be afraid: afraid of saying the wrong thing, of using an exaggerated tone, of dressing unsuitably, of revealing petty feelings, of not having interesting thoughts.
~ Elena Ferrante
Sicherheit erzeugt Angst vor dem Unsicheren.
~ Elfriede Jelinek
Erica tem receio que tudo fique como está e tem receio que algo se possa vir a alterar. Luta violentamente para conseguir respirar, uma espécie de ataque de asma, e depois não sabe que fazer com tanto ar.
~ Elfriede Jelinek
I wouldn't go up on a stage now if you paid a thousand dollars for one minute of acting. It's a nasty experience. You're up there all by yourself. You're so damn exposed.
~ Elia Kazan
He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.
~ Elias Canetti
I can't find my car keys in the morning. Trying to get out of my house is a nightmare. 'Where's my wallet? Where are my keys? I have to go find a missing person.'
~ Anthony LaPaglia
Fireworks: we shoot them off gaily while our dogs hide under the bed. Philosophers are dogs!
~ Anthony Marais
My combat action has commenced... I've pissed my pants, but only a little.
~ Anthony Swofford
Everybody always leaves me in the end, don't you know that? I tell you all the time. You will too. How can anybody love me when I can't even love myself? I take the people that I love the most and I hurt them the most. I am so scared you will leave that I want to give you a reason to leave me. It is impossible to love me enough.
~ Anthony Walker