Quotes About Anxiety

Life is exactly as terrifying as you want it to be.

I wasn't afraid of the dark. I was afraid of the light—the future.

Celebrity or no celebrity, I think a lot of females deal with the fear of being abducted.

I am very well and shall be better for the change, though Robert is dreadfully afraid, as usual, that I shall fall to pieces at the first motion....

Angelo," he said, and felt the bed rock as Angelo shuddered, caught halfway between REM atonia - the inhibition of movement caused by the shutdown of monoamines in the brain - and waking.

Scared of Farweather. Scared of whether or not my gravity trick was going to work if there was another living body in the way of it, or whether Farweather would have better control—or whether the ship itself would intervene with some kind of failsafe to protect her. And I was scared as well of what I might do if my plan worked and I actually did get the upper hand

His tone was amused, silky-sweet, but Keith caught the worry under it.

You think you're fine. You think you get through it all right. And then you wake up sure the cold sweat on your face is blood, so real you can taste it.

The anxiety was bad. The sense of all the ways things could go wrong loomed intensely over me, congealed in a breathless knot behind my sternum. And I kept coming up with new ones.

I don't want to think what might have Col. Frederick Valens running scared.

I felt a little guilty at how thankful I was to realize that Helen Alloy and her quicksilver bosoms were somebody else's problem now. I reminded myself that I wasn't unreasonable to experience a reduction in anxiety when relieved of a responsibility for which one wasn't really qualified.

When Morrow called Closs, it was a cause for concern. When she called him at home and didn't waste time on pleasantries, it was nearly a cause to panic.

His voice held wonder and worry when he spoke at last.

I dreamed, and they were the terrible dreams that I had been turning out for twenty ans.

The Earl pressed his lips together and considered long enough that faintness made Will light-headed. And his words sent Will's stomach plunging hopelessly.

Thinking about the future was really doing a number on me.

I couldn't think, couldn't reason. I certainly couldn't sleep reliably, or for long.

She studied him; he did look drawn, with the waxen countenance she had come to associate with his need.

What the Man-Moth fears most he must do, although he fails, of course, and falls back scared but quite unhurt.

For people who live on expectations, to face up to their realization is something of an ordeal.

Did Anna also, sometimes not know what to do next? Because she knew what to do next, because she knew what to laugh at, what to say, did it always follow that she knew where to turn? Inside everyone, is there an anxious person who stands to hesitate in an empty room?

If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm.

You agonise me by being so agonised.

Worrying about them would make no difference, unless it diminished her ability to cope.