Quotes About Anxiety

A room full of hundreds, let alone thousands, of people is not my most fun thing in the world.

When I first started as an editorial cartoonist, I was terrified on a daily basis. Filling that hole the next day, knowing that tens of thousands of people were going to expect something funny. There is still that pressure, but you kind of learn how to cope with it a little better.

I can go in front of thousands of people on stage and not be afraid, but when there's just a few people, that scares me.

I have a huge fear of crowds. The irony is that my band is a therapeutic exercise. I hurl myself into thousands of people.

The Internet is like walking into a room in your house you never knew was there and, like, it's full of thousands of people who have been listening to everything you've been doing and saying the whole time! Scary.

When did the future switch from being a promise to a threat?

I'm still bothered by the threat of nuclear war.

What we do not know, we often fear. What we do not understand, we fear. And what we fear becomes a threat.

The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself.

The Islamic State is a threat to both the moderate Islam headed by Mr. Saad al-Hariri and, of course, for Hezbollah. There is a convergence, an anxiety of a common enemy... which is good.

I think threat of change is pretty potent. In humans, blood pressure doesn't go up when people get laid off: it goes up when they first hear rumors that layoffs are coming at the end of the month.

Adults under threat feel like children.

I cannot give a single concert at which I do not play one piece after the other in an agony of terror because my memory threatens to fail me. This fear torments me for days beforehand.

With success came an ever-growing burden of responsibility. I lived with a near-constant low-level anxiety that I would make a mistake that would not only threaten my career, but also my brothers' - not to mention the livelihoods of many people who work with us or for us.

I have had death threats from people with fixations.

With spectacular events taking up so much of the available anxiety quotient, we need to be constantly reminded of the more workaday threats to our mortality - threats that, while they may also be functions of human error, have become so ubiquitous that we've begun to apprehend them as natural phenomena.

It's never fun to read death threats.

Writing is a fine therapy for people who are perpetually scared of nameless threats... for jittery people.

Yes, I've received death threats.

There comes a point when threats become so overblown that they serve to irk rather than to frighten.

I receive many death threats. I used to love walking around New York City alone, but I can't do that anymore.

Still today, I cannot cross the threshold of a teaching institution without physical symptoms, in my chest and my stomach, of discomfort or anxiety. And yet I have never left school.

On my first day teaching my own classroom, I threw up before I entered the building.

I was studying theater management, business stuff. About that time, I realized I really didn't like that, and it threw me into a panic attack a little bit. I was under the assumption that the first job you get out of college is the job you have for the rest of your life.