Quotes About Anxiety

Fear in your mind produces fear in your life. This is the meaning of hell.

Fear manufactures a kind of parallel universe where the unreal seems real, and the real seems unreal.

Many of us know in our hearts that we never really grew up. The problem isn't that we're lost or apathetic, narcissistic or materialistic. The problem is we're terrified.

Tenemos miedo de morirnos jóvenes y también de envejecer. Tenemos más miedo de la vida que de la muerte.

The problem isn't that we're lost or apathetic, narcissistic or materialistic. The problem is we're terrified.

Our fear is free-floating. We're afraid this isn't the right relationship or we're afraid it is. We're afraid they won't like us or we're afraid they will. We're afraid of failure or we're afraid of success. We're afraid of dying young or we're afraid of growing old. We're more afraid of life than we are of death.

Being too consumed in fear all the time will result in poor quality of life

Laura smiled a little wanly in the twilight. Far more afraid of flesh and blood than ghosts, she murmured.

I've always been paranoid about the police, because even when I'm not doing anything illegal I'm thinking about doing something illegal.

Since supper was three kinds of casserole with two kinds of fruit salad, with cake and pie for dessert, I gathered that my flock, who lambaste life's problems with food items of just this kind, had heard an alarm. There was even a bean salad, which to me looked distinctly Presbyterian, so anxiety had overspilled its denominational vessel. You'd have thought I'd died. We saved it for lunch.

Fearfulness obscures the distinction between real threat on one hand and on the other the terrors that beset those who see threat everywhere. . . . Granting the perils of the world, it is potentially a very costly indulgence to fear indiscriminately, and to try to stimulate fear in others, just for the excitement of it, or because to do so channels anxiety or loneliness or prejudice or resentment into an emotion that can seem to those who indulge it like shrewdness or courage or patriotism.

I just lay there, helplessly subject to my anxieties. A good many of them I could have put out of my mind, if I'd had the use of my mind. But as it was, I had to endure a kind of dull paralysis.

The spirit of our times can appear to be one of joyless urgency.

an old pastor's anxiety for his church is likewise a forgetfulness of the fact that Christ is Himself the pastor of His people and a faithful presence among them through all generations.

No saber la hora lo angustió de nuevo. A veces lo olvidaba, pero la menor inquietud, duda, zozobra, hacía que la punzante ansiedad de no saber en qué momento del día o de la noche se hallaba le produjera hielo en el corazón, la sensación de haber sido expulsado del tiempo, de vivir en un limbo donde no existían el antes, el ahora ni el después

I began to experience, over the course of the next three months, full-blown insomnia. I'm not talking about the romantic kind, not the sweet sleeplessness one has when one is in love, anxiously awaiting the morn so one can rendezvous with a lover in an illicit gazebo. No, this was the torturous, clammy kind, when one's pillow slowly takes on the properties of a block of wood and one's sheets, the air of the Everglades.

He was afraid a lot, but it had become a discerning fear.

He was convinced that men lost their nerve in combat when they allowed themselves to think too much. The part movies never got right about war was all the waiting, and all the effort it took not to think.

Youth ministry may be one of the only professions that has settled into the pattern of handing over total responsibility for running an organization to young people just out of college. Far too often, anxiety, not wisdom, drives us.

anxiety and subsequent panic attacks were the result of being conflicted between the fear of the Lord and the fear of man. Proverbs 29:25 says, "The fear of man lays a snare, but whoever trusts in the LORD is safe.

Thus, anger can be seen as one's inability or unwillingness to use aggression to overcome a frustrating obstacle, while anxiety can be understood as an inability or unwillingness to admit hunger or desire.

He was asking too many questions and he was asking them too quickly. They were stacking up in my head like loaves in the factory where Uncle Terry works. The factory is a bakery and he operates the slicing machines. And sometimes a slicer is not working fast enough but the bread keeps coming and there is a blockage. I sometimes think of my mind as a machine, but not always as a bread-slicing machine. It makes it easier to explain to other people what is going on inside it.

even writing this makes me feel shaky and scared, like I do when I'm standing on the top of a very tall building and there are thousands of houses and cars and people below me and my head is so full of all these things that I'm afraid that I'm going to forget to stand up straight and hang on to the rail and I'm going to fall over and be killed.

Then he snored and I jumped and I could hear the blood in my ears and my heart going really fast and a pain like someone had blown up a really big balloon inside my chest. I wondered if I was going to have a heart attack.