Quotes About Anxiety

Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it by the handle of anxiety, or by the handle of faith.

Perpetual worry will get you to one place ahead of time - the cemetery.

The good Lord gave me a brain that works so fast that in one moment I can worry as much as it would take others a whole year to achieve.

We're a fucked up generation

I discovered I scream the same way whether I'm about to be devoured by a great white shark or if a piece of seaweed touches my foot.

One of the darkest, deepest shames so many of us mothers feel nowadays is our fear that we are Bad Mothers, that we are failing our children and falling far short of our own ideals.

Supposing I fell off ?' said Dodder rather nervously. 'Oh, you need not worry about that, little gnome, if you hold on tightly!

Everything was going to be all right, she told herself. Every woman got wedding jitters, right? Every woman felt a little nauseated at the thought of her first love on her wedding day. Every woman saw herself lying face down, dead in a pond.

Just tell me she's alive.

Before this, I had slept terribly most nights when I was worrying about the conference. I hated going to bed—it felt like gearing up for a battle.

It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and many things to fear.

Normally, on the rare chance that a celebrity comes to my property, I get real nervous.

I very rarely get nervous as an actor. Very rarely.

Almost everyone seems to worry about something, and yet, we rarely talk about worry as a problem. Maybe that is because worry is so integrated into the way we have come to live and be in the world that we don't even notice it.

I'm getting nervous to be called a centrist. Breaking out in a rash.

That's a curious paradox that I don't think a lot of people out there know; that you get really scared before you go on. You come out in a nervous rash, and it's not like you actually love getting up there and showing off.

When I was younger, every time I stopped work and had a holiday, I'd break out in a rash. A dermatologist put it down to stress, but it never seemed to affect me when I was busy.

When you're panicking you make rash decisions.

I love my job, but I'd really love my job if I didn't have to live and die by ratings every day.

I'm deathly afraid of rats.

I am living on the razor's edge between success and failure, adulation and humiliation - between justifying my existence and revealing my unworthiness to be alive.

It's when I'm playing a headline show I feel weird, 'cause I don't know how to react to people coming out to see me.

I always have to poop right before I do a concert. I don't feel nervous, but I think that must be my body reacting.

People with anxiety tend to be hyper-reactive. We are like jack rabbits, off and running to the races, reacting to some event, even while the event is still happening.