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Quotes About Anxiety

Waiting feeds fear. Courage comes with deeds.
~ Garth Nix
Americanesia Expressaphobia, n 1. Financial affliction, first diagnosed in late twentieth century, where the sufferer forgets the amount charged on a credit card but is terribly afraid that it's way too much. Closely related to Visago, n, where a high level of debt prompts feelings of nausea and dizziness.
~ Gary Belsky
Trying to extract every last dime out of your financial decisions is likely to incur significant social and psychic costs. As you've no doubt noticed, not everyone likes a person who's obsessed with money. And even if everyone did, an insistence on always making the best financial decision in a given situation can lead to excessive worry and anxiety.
~ Gary Belsky
Misinformation, rumors, and gossip are making this time stressful for everyone.
~ Gary Chapman
Worry weighs a person down; an encouraging word cheers a person up. —Proverbs 12:25
~ Gary Chapman
I crammed a handful of Ativan into his mouth and flooded that orifice with forty ounces of Coca-Cola from the cup holder. 'This is going to take effect immediately,' I lied. 'Breathe, Mr. Sakha, breathe. Would you like me to sing a calming Western song? My name is Luka', I sang. 'I live on the second floor.
~ Gary Shteyngart
I am scared of the photo studio. I am scared of the telephone. Scared of anything outside our apartment. Scared of the people in their big fur hats. Scared of the snow. Scared of the cold. Scared of the heat. Scared of the ceiling fan at which I would point one tragic finger and start weeping. Scared of any height higher than my sickbed. Scared of Uncle Electric Current. Why was I so scared of everything? I ask my mother nearly forty years later. Because you were born a Jewish person, she says.
~ Gary Shteyngart
Negronis, cigarettes snuck. What could he do? His friend had begged him to come up, and the now-muted city would be more depressing still. "So who else is coming?" Ed asked. "Besides the Exalted One." He was referring to the famous actor who was coming up for a few days to work on a screenplay with Senderovsky, the source of his friend's anxiety. "Karen, you said." "Vinod, too." "Haven't seen him in ages. Is
~ Gary Shteyngart
I think of my mother and father. Of their constant anxiety. But their anxiety means they still want to live.
~ Gary Shteyngart
Surely, if his heart continued to make such a noise, they would hear it inside, they would open the door and the young man would be turned away in disgrace.
~ Gaston Leroux
There is a terrible mystery around us...a mystery much more to be feared than any number of ghosts or genii!
~ Gaston Leroux
Fear is excitement without the breath." Here's what this intriguing statement means: the very same mechanisms that produce excitement also produce fear, and any fear can be transformed into excitement by breathing fully with it.
~ Gay Hendricks
A sense of humor is a measurement of the extent to which you realize that you are trapped in a world almost entirely devoid of reason. Laughter is how you release the anxiety you feel at this knowledge.
~ Gene Weingarten
Still no word from Mel.
~ Gene Wilder
After I had my drink with them and said good night to James Baldwin and was kissed by Simone Signoret on both cheeks, I went outside, walked close to my car, and threw up on the street. It wasn't about the food. I may act brave and sometimes outrageous—on screen—but in real life I get terribly nervous when I meet the great talents whom I've admired for years from afar.
~ Gene Wilder
as a woman alone in a large house refrains from looking into mirrors, and instead busies herself with trivial errands, so that she may catch no glimpse of the thing whose feet she hears at times on the stairs.
~ Gene Wolfe
This unfocused terror, this faceless menace of the night, was the earliest of all my childhood fears; and as such, now that childhood was behind me, it had the homey quality of all childhood things when we are fully grown.
~ Gene Wolfe
You can deal with the loneliness one night at a time. But what you can't deal with is the idea of loneliness, the fear of it.
~ Geneen Roth
Ich wage kaum die Hände auszustrecken, wie in einem engen Spiegelzimmer, aus Furcht überall anzustoßen, daß die schönen Figuren in Scherben auf dem Boden lägen und ich vor der kahlen, nackten Wand stünde.
~ Georg Buchner
It was a good thing I wasn't afraid, because I was scared stiff.
~ George Alec Effinger
There is always danger for those who are afraid.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Biz iki h?rs?z aras?nda kendimizi ifade ederiz. Düne ait üzüntüler ve yar?na ait korkular.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Jesus, what a nuisance it was, being desperate to stay alive.
~ George Effinger
Few things hold the perception more thoroughly captive than anxiety about what we have got to say
~ George Eliot