Quotes About Anxiety

We know that letting our children eat too many sweets makes us a bad parent, hence the pointless ritual at Halloween when parents allow their children to go from house to house accumulating a big haul of treats, only to confiscate them at the end of the night, because they don't want their child to get cavities. Yes despite their anxiety about sweets, parents will happily feed their children highly sweetened sports bars, fruit snacks and cereals which are sweets in all but name.

Men do not avail themselves of the riches of God's grace. They love to nurse their cares, and seem as uneasy without some fret, as an old friar would be without his hair girdle. They are commanded to cast their cares upon the Lord; but, even when they attempt it, they do not fail to catch them up again, and think it meritorious to walk burdened. They take God's ticket to heaven, and then put their baggage on their shoulders, and tramp, tramp, the whole way there afoot.

Fear secretes acids.

Worry is rust upon the blade.

Driving yourself insane on the Internet is as easy as checking the weather.

I read today's news last month but this time it's worse.

When the phone rings at 2.15am in the morning it's unlikely to be heralding something pleasant. What chance is there of its being good news? None. Only someone bad would ring at such an hour. Or someone with bad news.

I've been worryin' that we all, live our lives, in the confines of fear

I've been worrying that we all live our lives in the confines of fear

There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.

And because his narrator was characterized above all by his anxiety regarding the disconnect between his internal experience and his social self-presentation

And because his narrator was characterized above all by his anxiety regarding the disconnect between his internal experience and his social self-presentation, the more intensely the author worried about distinguishing himself from the narrator, the more he felt he had become him.

And while he'd never had more than one in a six-week period, he thought he felt one coming on a hundred times a day: whenever he looked away from a light source to find his vision mottled, whenever part of his body fell asleep or felt slightly numb from an awkward posture, on the very rare occasions when he stuttered or grew briefly confused in his speech—terror arose within him. Each false alarm, because it caused anxiety, brought him closer to the real thing.

It was as though it had already happened; predicting it felt like recalling a traumatic event.

Paranoia is born of propaganda, ignorance, secrecy and fear.

she worried about whether I had the clothes and social skills to fit in.

As the panic worsened,

At the scheduled time, I found myself in the Oval Office, feeling a little overwhelmed

I worried that Jorgenson would be upset if I chose MIT over Harvard

She worried how I was doing in kindergarten and sent my father to check on me.

Americans are terrified because so many of them have been laid off in recent years and months and they fear that they may be next. Even if they have not been laid off or have not known anyone laid off, they definitely know someone who has lost his home.

There's always an element of fear that you need to work a lot until people get sick and tired of you or finally figure out that you're a fraud after all!

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

He whose honor depends on the opinion of the mob must day by day strive with the greatest anxiety, act and scheme in order to retain his reputation. For the mob is varied and inconstant, and therefore if a reputation is not carefully preserved it dies quickly.