Quotes About Anxiety

The hardest part of this whole ordeal is not knowing if your children are getting what they need to survive.

There is pressure that comes with everything being a big deal. I remember thinking, 'I need to survive the Shins. I don't know what I'm going to do to make a living otherwise, but I really don't want to do the Shins right now.'

Perhaps all of our anxiety is not caused by broken brains but by working nonstop, missing out on time with our friends and families because we are all so busy 'hustling' and 'grinding' just to survive in an immoral economic system skewed to favor a very few at the top while leaving the rest of the country to fend for itself.

What I went through in 1976, it's the same today: It's about all the pressure that you feel, the anxiety, the family, and everything that surrounds the Games, and then getting there knowing this is your big chance, and you're able to come through. It's such a satisfying thing.

'Galpo Holeo Sotti' had been made some time ago. But even today, I feel haunted. I still get scared to be all alone in a room.

The toddler craves independence, but he fears desertion.

I have Googled so many things related to possible diseases, and it's always ridiculous. Like, 'My toe is hurting. Do I have cancer?' 'I have a scratch in my eye. Am I going to die soon?' 'Is eating a soup going to make me die?'

I didn't want to go completely on my toes for our first kiss.

There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.

Yup, the toilet is my best friend before a show.

Politicians should reflect on the well-documented fact that fearful, insecure people lose their sense of tolerance and altruism.

Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity.

There was nothing to do and not enough time to do nothing in.

There are days on which Julia does not open letters. She is overcome, as I understand it, by a sort of superstitious dread, in which she is persuaded that letters bode her no good: they will be from the Gas Board, and demand money; or from the Inland Revenue, and demand accounts; or from some much valued friend, and demand an answer.

That's not a real answer.' Says who?' Says me. I mean real fear, like of failure, of death, of regret. Like that. Something that keeps you awake nights, questioning your very existence.' Clowns.

Uncertainty is more contagious than the plague. Cesare

I have this feeling - of being unplugged and too far from the socket and what remains is a red warning bar.

The fearful are the failing.

I dreamt I went to the doctor's and she gave me eight minutes to live-I'd been sitting in the fucking waiting room half an hour.

She ceases to continue with the day do day farce of getting through the next few hours in an attempt to ward off the fact that she doesn't know how to get through the next forty years.

It's fear that keeps me away from the train tracks.

Some nights, I wake up knowing he is anxious. He is across the world in another woman's arms and the years have spread us like dandelion seeds, sanding down the edges of our jigsaw parts that used to only fit each other

The fastest way to revise a piece of work is to send it, late at night, to someone whose opinion you fear. Then rewrite it, praying you'll finish in time to send a new version by morning.

It's easier to speak to a crowd, to stare into the spotlight, than it is to look into a human face.