Quotes About Anxiety

After obsessively Googling symptoms for four hours, I discovered 'obsessively Googling symptoms' is a symptom of hypochondria.

A new study shows that having a severe phobia can hasten aging. But what if my greatest fear IS aging?!?

The dead man and the living man exchanged a long look. Then the youth cautiously put one hand behind him and brought it against a tree. Leaning upon this he retreated, step by step, with his face still toward the thing. He feared that if he turned his back the body might spring up and stealthily pursue him.

In the darkness he saw visions of a thousand-tongued fear that would babble at his back and cause him to flee, while others were going coolly about their country's business. He admitted that he would not be able to cope with this monster. He felt that every nerve in his body would be an ear to hear the voices, while other men would remain stolid and deaf.

he began to fear that his judgment of them had been blind.

He generated maximum anxiety over matters of minimum significance.

the German today is like the June Bride. He knows he is going to get it, but he doesn't know how big it is gong to be.

The German today is like the June Bride. He knows he is going to get it, but he doesn't know how big it is going to be.

She scared me a little bit," recalled Harry King. "There was something about her that made me feel uneasy. I used to say it to Way: 'She has a demon inside of her.

Self-consciousness, that's what it is. Always my abiding vice. I keep seeing myself. Me watching myself watching others watch me. How do you lose that? What's the trick?

I hope you forgive the unedifying sight of my struggle to express some of the truths of my inner self and to measure the distance between the mask of security, ease, confidence and assurance I wear (so easily that its features often lift into a smirk that looks like complacency and smugness) and the real condition of anxiety, self-doubt, self-disgust and fear in which much of my life then and now is lived.

triskaidekaphobic.

We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.

There's no bitch on earth like a mother frightened for her kids.

FEAR stands for fuck everything and run.

You think Okay, I get it, I'm prepared for the worst , but you hold out that small hope, see, and that's what fucks you up. That's what kills you.

The scariest moment is always just before you start. After that, things can only get better.

Oh Christ, he groaned to himself, if this is the stuff adults have to think about I never want to grow up

Late last night and the night before, tommyknockers, tommyknockers knocking on my door. I wanna go out, don't know if I can 'cuz I'm so afraid of the tommyknocker man.

If anyone ever asks you what panic is, now you can tell them: an emotional blank spot that leaves you feeling as if you've been sucking on a mouthful of pennies.

You can approach the act of writing with nervousness, excitement, hopefulness, or despair ... Come to it any way but lightly.

We sometimes need to create unreal monsters and bogies to stand in for all the things we fear in our real lives.

No one likes to see a government folder with his name on it.

Frightened people live in their own special hell. You could say they make it themselves, but they can't help it. It's the way they're built. They deserve sympathy and compassion.