Quotes About Anxiety

I collapse on my pillows in relief, my heart pounding. Thank fuck. I don't have a child. And

Some people lose their nerve for riding or skiing or driving; well, I've lost my nerve for life.

didn't dare to peer into the future.

Please let the press conference be short, I pray. Please don't let the questions go on too long. Please God, please let me have that scarf.

To the man who is afraid everything rustles.

I know not, but strained silence, so I deem, IS no less ominous than excessive grief.

Last night was a night of bad dreams and ambiguous visions.

who in his right mind would rather rule and live in anxiety than sleep in peace?

Look at us, passengers in the grip of fear, watching the pilot of the vessel go to pieces.

To him who is in fear everything rustles.

Deep within every human being there still lives the anxiety over the possibility of being alone in the world, forgotten by God, overlooked among the millions and millions in this enormous household. One keeps this anxiety at a distance by looking at the many round about who are related to him as kin and friends, but the anxiety is still there, nevertheless, and one hardly dares think of how he would feel if all this were taken away.

And no Grand Inquisitor has in readiness such terrible tortures as has anxiety, and no spy knows how to attack more artfully the man he suspects, choosing the instant when he is weakest, nor knows how to lay traps where he will be caught and ensnared, as anxiety knows how, and no sharp-witted judge knows how to interrogate, to examine the accused as anxiety does, which never lets him escape, neither by diversion nor by noise, neither at work nor at play, neither by day nor at night.

There is not a single human being who does not despair at least a little, in whose innermost being there does not dwell an uneasiness, an unquiet, a discordance, an anxiety in the face of an unknown something.

If man were a beast or an angel, he would not be able to be in anxiety. Since he is both beast and angel, he can be in anxiety, and the greater the anxiety, the greater the man.

Anxiety can just as well express itself by muteness as by a scream.

is a desire for what one dreads, a sympathetic antipathy. Anxiety is an alien power which lays hold of an individual, and yet one cannot tear oneself away, nor has a will to do so; for one fears, but what one fears one desires. Anxiety then makes the individual impotent.

Learning to know anxiety is an adventure which every man has to affront if he would not go to perdition either by not having known anxiety or by sinking under it.

Deepest within every person there is nonetheless an anxiety about being alone in the world, forgotten by God, overlooked among the millions and millions in this enormous household.

Anxiety may be the dizziness of freedom.

Life is a hurdle and you'll never clear it. Death is the end of the ride and you fear it.

I try not to look at my schedule for the week because I'll get so overwhelmed. Every day, there are multiple things to be done and 10 things I don't end up accomplishing.

He sobbed in desperation at the burden of fear he carried with him every day of his life.

That which you worry about most in life is seldom bad, and that likely applies to dying.

I was terrified of being on television - and also I overcompensated, I'm sure, because I know I did this in my personal life too at the time, when I was younger.