Quotes About Anxiety

I get nervous around girls for the first time. Once I'm in, I can take the reins and go. It's just the initial approach I'm really bad at.

I was so self -conscious, every time football players went into a huddle, I thought they were talking about me.

Anxiety, the illness of our time, comes primarily from our inability to dwell in the present moment.

Worry is evidence of an ill-controlled brain; it is merely a stupid waste of time in unpleasantness.

Time is: Too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear.

So much time is currently spent in worrying about the future that the present is allowed to go to hell.

It is a strange thing, but when you are dreading something, and would give anything to slow down time, it has a disobliging habit of speeding up.

Every time I surrender to stress, aren't I advertising the unreliability of God?

It's fine therapy for people who are perpetually scared of nameless threats as I am most of the time — for jittery people.

I am very self-conscious a lot of the time.

I still believe that at any time the no-talent police will come and arrest me.

My nerves before a gig got worse; I had terrible bad nerves all the time. Once we started... I was fine.

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.

If you spend all your time worrying about dying, living isn't going to be much fun.

It can hit at any time [anxiety/panic attack]. You feel like you're in an open field, and there's a tornado coming at you. And you're just consumed by it.

I book myself tight. If I have any time off, I get antsy.

I had a tight stomach all the time. I actually developed ulcers. I've learned better than to put all that internal pressure on myself.

If you worry about disaster all the time, that's what you're going to get.

I'm terrified that I'm genetically predisposed to only having boys. That's frightening. By the time I was 10 years old, and I'm not exaggerating, I knew how to patch drywall.

The only time you're calm, you're centered, you're at peace, is when someone's trying to kill you. And that's just plain twisted.

I panic every time I put out a record. I think every artist does.

Fear runs our lives a lot of the time. You can face it head-on, or you can hide in your bunker.

No one can pray and worry at the same time. When we worry, we aren't praying. When we pray, we aren't worrying.

Everyone starting a startup for the first time is scared, and everyone feels like a bit of an imposter.