Quotes About Anxiety

Unspeakably frightened. It had unmoored him.

God, I'm scared,' he said, quietly. She almost said, 'Oh, stop. I hate scared people.

It had made me draw back just slightly inside myself. And I knew this was because I had always been afraid of giving off that odor myself.

As has often been the case with me, I began to dread this in advance... But early on I saw this: You are wasting time by suffering twice. I mention this only to show how many things the mind cannot will itself to do, even if it wants to.

Driving home, Tommy was aware of a sensation like that of a tire becoming flat, as though he had been filled—all his life—with some sustaining air, and it was gone now; he felt, increasingly as he drove, a sense of fear.

I felt terrible, I have always been frightened of doing something wrong, of being inconsiderate; it is a real fear I have.

I have mentioned earlier how easy it is for me to become frightened, and as we drove up this turnpike with barely another car in sight I thought: Oh I wish I had not come! I am afraid of things that are not familiar.

Mommy, I cried inside myself, Mommy, I am so frightened! And the nice mother I have made up over the years answered: Yes, I know.

As David Hume explained, "The mind of man is subject to certain unaccountable terrors and apprehensions, proceeding from the unhappy situation of private or public affairs, from ill health, from a gloomy and melancholy disposition. In such a state of mind, where real objects of terror are wanting, the soul … finds imaginary ones, to whose power and malevolence it sets no limits.

El dolor que experimentamos cuando no nos sentimos amados es tan real, como el dolor corporal. Cuando las necesidades emocionales permanecen insatisfechas se convierten en sensaciones reales de un profundo malestar corporal, ansiedad, depresión, dolor de cabeza, de estómago, en fin, de un temor fuera de foco. La insatisfacción de las necesidades es una amenaza a la integridad del sistema; se transforma en dolor porque éste nos alerta de las amenazas que nos produce esa privación.

The idea of a man going about London haunted by the fear of meeting a young man with spectacles struck Dyson as supremely ridiculous;

I knew all the time that it was all nonsense, but I couldn't understand in the least what it meant, or who was pulling the wires of rumour, or their purpose in so pulling. I began to wonder whether the pressure and anxiety and suspense of a terrible war had unhinged the public mind, so that it was ready to believe any fable, to debate the reasons for happenings which had never happened.

Anxiety is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.

Quien sólo se interesa por los libros no necesita a nadie, y eso me da miedo —

I can't watch scary movies right now, because living on my own, it kind of freaks me out.

Don't chain your worries to your body. The burden soon becomes heavy and your health will give too much of itself to pick up the extra load.

To know nothing about yourself is to be constantly in danger of nothingness, those voids of non-being over which a man walks the tightrope of his life.

Why am I so anxious? And then it hits me. I'm not anxious, I'm lonely. And I'm lonely in some horribly deep way and for a flash of an instant, I can see just how lonely, and how deep this feeling runs. And it scares the shit out of me to be so lonely because it seems catastrophic - seeing the car just as it hits you.

Internet, jogos de video, computadores, são úteis, mas tâm destruído algo inviolável: a infância. Onde está o prazer do silência? Onde está a arte da observação? Onde está a inocência? Angustia-me que o sistema esteja a gerar crianças insatisfeitas e ansiosas. Fortes candidatas a serem doentes psiquiátricos e não seres humanos felizes e livres.

Quien no tiene miedo es irresponsable. El valor no es la ausencia del miedo. Es su control.

Uno de los mecanismos psíquicos que más transforman la ansiedad vital en una ansiedad asfixiante es la hiperconstrucción de pensamientos. Quien tiene una mente agitada, quien es una máquina de informarse y de pensar, sobrepasa los límites saludables de movimiento psíquico y desarrollará el Síndrome del Pensamiento Acelerado.

We consume our tomorrows fretting about our yesterdays.

I don't understand why people say that I am full of courage. I feel terribly nervous.

Anxiety and self-doubt can bring you down, but don't quit. Keep your motivation strong and take back control of your life.