Quotes About Anxiety

Was he some kind of worrywart? It worried him.

Today, at the stupa, it occurs to me that this low-level ambient fear constitutes a decent working definition of the human: A human being is someone who, having lived awhile, becomes terrified and, having become terrified, deeply craves an end to the fear.

En nuevas formas, el hombre del siglo XXI sigue luchando con el aterrador vacío de la extinción.

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To solve political problems becomes difficult for those who allow anxiety alone to pose them.

Inversement, le propre de la maladie c'est d'être une réduction de la marge de tolérance des infidélités du milieu. Cette réduction consiste à ne pouvoir vivre que dans un autre milieu et non pas seulement parmi quelques-unes des parties de l'ancien. Au fond l'anxiété populaire devant les complications des maladies ne traduit que cette expérience.

It is as if you were living with the constant dread that the slightest weakening of your resolution might, all at once, take you too far. It is as if you constantly needed to tell yourself: it is this way because I wanted it this way, I wanted it this way, otherwise I am dead.

I'm worried that the chicken may be overcooked Ã¢â'¬Â¦Ã¢â'¬â"¢ she said as she served Maigret. And her tone was the one in which she might have said, for example: 'I'm afraid of everything! I don't know what's going on. Holy Virgin, protect me!

Perhaps Charis did not realize that when one had passed through a time of terrible anxiety relief did not immediately restore the tone of one's mind. To be sure, she herself had not expected that after the first raptures she would find herself subject to fits of dejection, and much inclined to be crotchety; but still Charis should have known better than to have enacted a tragical scene within an hour of her arrival.

He has probably gnawed his nails down to the quick, or murdered poor Mr. Orde.

It's awful, isn't it?' 'Yes. The worst fight I ever was in.' 'Well, I'm glad I was in it, anyway. To tell you the truth, I haven't liked it as much as I thought I should. It's seeing one's friends go, one after the other, and being so hellish frightened oneself.

In my experience, the human mind, when under the influence of fear, rushes round in frantic circles.

Deriving just as much pleasure as ever from a set of sports and pastimes which seemed to have been chosen by him with a view to causing his family the maximum amount of pain and anxiety.

Oh, Kit, don't joke me! I am going distracted !

We cling to things, people, beliefs, and behaviors not because we love them, but because we are terrified of losing them.

Peace is not something you can force on anything or anyone... much less upon one's own mind. It is like trying to quiet the ocean by pressing upon the waves. Sanity lies in somehow opening to the chaos, allowing anxiety, moving deeply into the tumult, diving into the waves, where underneath, within, peace simply is.

It was always uncertainty that i feared most.

Security is the denial of life

Fear is like a pack of dogs – it chases us, and if we try to run or hide from it the dogs will continue our chase until finally, exhausted, we fall and are devoured.

Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.

Don't worry as long as you worry.

As an actor, you always feel like you're not going to work again. You're always unsure about how things are going to work out, and you start thinking you're going to just fade off into the distance.

When some people get parts, they feel they can now relax, but for me it was always the opposite. Sometimes before I do a movie or before I act out a scene, I may not sleep well the night before. If I don't know what the scene is about, I might get all worked up.

I don't think I had a reputation as a hard worker, but inside I was always being eaten up by the pressures.