Quotes About Anxiety

There were places you didn't want to walk, precautions you took that had to do with locks on windows and doors, drawing the curtains, leaving on lights. These things you did were like prayers; you did them and you hoped they would save you.

No. It's the newly conscious young I mean, the ones with ambition and fresh diffidence, those who've learned the hard way that reach exceeds grasp nine times out of ten. How disappointed they are! And if and when they succeed for the first time, how anxious it makes them! They develop insomnia, or claustrophobia, or bulimia, or fear of heights. Now they will have to live up to themselves. Bummer.

Anxiety-neurosis had been observed in soldiers in World War I, but once a soldier was removed from the stress of combat, symptoms generally disappeared.

He was so very large and male, and excessively male creatures always discomposed her.

always save something to fear, even as you save something to love.

I don't do well with technology.

The world is coming to an end in 1950.

I don't understand technology, and I'm very scared of it.

I think there is irony in the fact that the computer is both their chief venue of communication and propaganda and also the mother of all their fears.

There it was again, the prickling sense of standing on a precipice.

Thanksgiving is worry's kryptonite.

Are stress and worry evidence of a soul too lazy, too undisciplined, to keep gaze fixed on God?

I have never once feared the devil, but I tremble every time I enter the pulpit.

Worry is irrelevant. It alters nothing. When was the last time you solved a problem by worrying about it?

No one can pray and worry at the same time.

When it comes time to sit down and write the next book, you're deathly afraid that you're not up to the task. That was certainly the case with me after Snow Falling on Cedars.

There are two kinds of worries - those you can do something about and those you can't. Don't spend any time on the latter.

You can't walk in faith and fear at the same time.

My biggest worry is I'm running out of time and energy. Thirty years ago I thought 10 years was a really long time.

I feel certain that I'm going mad again, I feel we can't go thru another of those terrible times. And I shan't recover this time. I begin to hear voices

I feel so agitated all the time, like a hamster in search of a wheel.

During my first pregnancy, I spent a lot of time worrying about how big I was getting and how I would lose it afterwards.

It's the first time I can ever remember being scared that the United States might mess up and something terrible will happen to us.

Every time I go to Washington, I break out in a cold sweat. So I try not to spend too much time there.