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Quotes About Anxiety

This fear is what is the ruin of us all. And some dominate us; they take advantage of our fear and frighten us still more. Mark this: as long as people are afraid, they will rot like the birches in the marsh. We must grow bold; it is time!
~ Joseph Conrad
I'm cold,' Snowden said softly, 'I'm cold.' 'You're going to be all right, kid,' Yossarian reassured him with a grin. 'You're going to be all right.' 'I'm cold,' Snowden said again in a frail, childlike voice. 'I'm cold.' 'There, there,' Yossarian said, because he did not know what else to say. 'There, there.' 'I'm cold,' Snowden whimpered. 'I'm cold.' 'There, there. There, there.
~ Joseph Heller
I have a feeling that someone nearby is soon going to find out something about me that will mean the end, although I can't imagine what that something is.
~ Joseph Heller
Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not after you
~ Joseph Heller
Hungry Joe collected lists of fatal diseases and arranged them in alphabetical order so that he could put his finger without delay on any one he wanted to worry about.
~ Joseph Heller
You've been unable to adjust to the idea of war.' 'Yes, sir.' 'You have a morbid aversion to dying.
~ Joseph Heller
I get the willies when I see closed doors.
~ Joseph Heller
How do you feel Yossarian? Fine. No, I'm very frightened. That's good, said Major Danby. It proves you're still alive. It won't be fun. Yossarian started out. Yes it will.
~ Joseph Heller
He felt awkward because she was going to murder him.
~ Joseph Heller
You have a morbid aversion to dying.
~ Joseph Heller
He wondered often how he would ever recognize the first chill, flush, twinge, ache, belch, sneeze, stain, lethargy, vocal slip, loss of balance or lapse of memory that would signal the inevitable beginning of the inevitable end.
~ Joseph Heller
Nem is lenne normális, ha sohasem félne. Még a legbátrabb emberek is tapasztalják a félelmet. A harcban a legnagyobb feladattal akkor kerülünk szembe, amikor saját félelmünket kell legyÅ'znünk.
~ Joseph Heller
There was no established procedure for evasive action. All you needed was fear, and Yossarian had plenty of that, more fear than Orr or Hungry Joe, more fear even than Dunbar, who had resigned himself submissively to the idea that he must die someday
~ Joseph Heller
It was just before dawn during the Great Big Siege of Bologna, when tongueless dead men peopled the night hours like living ghosts and Hungry Joe was half out of his mind with anxiety because he had finished his missions
~ Joseph Heller
You have a morbid aversion to dying. You probably resent the fact that you're at war and might get your head blown off any second.
~ Joseph Heller
One of the things he wanted to start screaming about was the surgeon's knife that was almost certain to waiting for him and everyone else who lived long enough to die. He wondered often how he would ever recognize the first chill, flush, twinge, ache, belch, sneeze, stain, lethargy, vocal slip, loss of balance or lapse of memory that would signal the inevitable beginning of the inevitable end.
~ Joseph Heller
One of the things he wanted to start screaming about was the surgeon's knife that was almost certain to be waiting for him and everyone else who lived long enough to die.
~ Joseph Heller
Cum te simÈ›i, Yossarian? -Bine. Ba nu, sunt foarte speriat. -Asta-i bine, spuse maiorul Danby, dovedeÈ™te c? eÈ™ti înc? viu.
~ Joseph Heller
He was hounded incessantly by an impression of vital duties left unfulfilled and waited in vain for his responsibilities to overtake him.
~ Joseph Heller
your blueprint is full of mental patterns of fear, worry, anxiety, or lack, and if you are despondent, doubtful, and cynical, then the texture of the mental material you are weaving into your mind will come forth as more toil, care, tension, anxiety, and limitation of all kinds.
~ Joseph Murphy
If the mind is in turmoil and you are anxious and worried, the beach or the mountain will not give you peace. You must choose peace.
~ Joseph Murphy
Your subconscious mind is reactive. It responds to the nature of your thoughts. When your conscious mind (Caruso's Little Me) is full of fear, worry, and anxiety, the negative emotions these create in your subconscious mind (the Big Me) are released. They flood the conscious mind with a sense of panic, foreboding, and despair. When this happens to you, you can follow the example of the great Caruso.
~ Joseph Murphy
You were born with only two fears, the fear of falling and the fear of noise. All your other fears were acquired. Get rid of them.
~ Joseph Murphy
Your subconscious mind is reactive and responds to the nature of your thoughts. When your conscious mind (the Little Me) is full of fear, worry, and anxiety, the negative emotions engendered in your subconscious mind (the Big Me) are released and flood the conscious mind with a sense of panic, foreboding, and despair. When this happens, you can, like Caruso, speak affirmatively and with a
~ Joseph Murphy