Quotes About Anxiety

Outsource your anxieties to God. This 'outsourcing' will help you in such a way that you will become only a witness to adverse situations, without becoming a part of the problem yourself.

If you fear it you believe in it

I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent.

Worrying is like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere. —Anonymous

The perfect storm of occupational stress appears to be a combination of two factors: (1) a great deal is expected of you, and (2) you have no control over whether you will perform well.

Is jumping out of an airplane inherently stressful? The answer is no, and that highlights the subjective nature of stress. The

Guess what often brings about anxiety. The voices in your own head, also known as the inner critic or the critical inner voice.

Where shame is, there is also fear.

Suspense in news is torture.

Farewell Hope, and with Hope farewell Fear

My unique brand of depression responds to stress; specifically, it blows up under stress. When the going gets tough, I don't get amped up, I get despondent

As a generation, as a society, we never talk about the shit that went down with the fear of nuclear war. Not really. We'll laugh about how scary The Day After was, but we never recognize that we were raised in despair and probably handed it down to our kids and to later versions of ourselves.

I have work to do, and I am afraid not to do it.

Never worry alone. When anxiety grabs my mind, it is self-perpetuating. Worrisome thoughts reproduce faster than rabbits, so one of the most powerful ways to stop the spiral of worry is simply to disclose my worry to a friend... The simple act of reassurance from another human being [becomes] a tool of the Spirit to cast out fear -- because peace and fear are both contagious.

My original fear that my daughter was going to die before BettyJane and myself has now been replaced with the fear that she is going to outlive us.

Anxiety seems to be an intense desire for something, accompanied by a fear of the consequences of not receiving it.

Worry is a mild form of atheism.

No one will ever write a horror novel as scary as reading about my symptoms on WebMD.

Maybe ever'body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.

The one thing I've learned is that stuttering in public is never as bad as I fear it will be.

She wanted to sit down, she wanted to turn back. She was afraid, and did not dare give in it it.

It was terrible to have that much nervous energy and nothing to do with it.

There is no such thing as bravery; only degrees of fear.

The dead won't bother you, it's the living you have to worry about.