Quotes About Anxiety

The thought of retirement set his nerves twitching and straining: he always prayed that death would come first.

Terror was always just behind her shoulder: she was wasted by the effort of not turning round.

I had no memory at all of Sarah and I was completely free from anxiety, jealousy, insecurity, hate: my mind was a blank sheet on which somebody had just been on the point of writing a message of happiness. I felt sure that when my memory came back, the writing would continue and that I should be happy.

So much of war is sitting around doing nothing, waiting for someone else. With no guarantee of the amount of time you have left, it doesn't seem worth starting even a train of thought.

Henry added with apparent anxiety, 'You're wet through, Sarah. One day you'll catch your death of cold.' A cliché with its popular wisdom can sometimes fall through a conversation like a note of doom, yet even if we had known he spoke the truth, I wonder if either of us would have felt any genuine anxiety for her break through our nerves, distrust, and hate.

Terror was always just behind her shoulder: she was wasted by the effort of not turning round. She dressed up her fear, so that she could look at it—in the form of fever, rats, unemployment. The real thing was taboo—death coming nearer every year in the strange place: everybody packing up and leaving, while she stayed in a cemetery no one visited, in a big aboveground tomb.

The human capacity for horror is a fickle thing, my friends, and hangs over an abyss by a frayed thread.

He was distrustful of happiness as some people fear heights or open spaces.

Feeling in love (or lust) and fear feel a lot alike. They both give you that anxious butterfly feeling in your stomach, a sense of excitement, and a general unease physically and mentally. It's easy to confuse love with fear.

Falling in love (or lust) and fear feel a lot alike. They both give you that anxious butterfly feeling in your stomach, a sense of excitement, and a general unease physically and mentally. It's easy to confuse love with fear.

that 10 percent of a nightmare is still a nightmare.

And since you've never talked about it, you don't know even how to really frame your thoughts. You fear that your words will tumble out in a way that will only make things worse.

He was always wondering when the other shoe would drop and Shelly would go into attack mode.

If Anna passed by, it brought Lara a shudder of relief. Only then could Lara take a breath. A very deep one.

Terrors can be mirrors, too.

Didier once told me, in a rambling, midnight dissertation, that a dream is the place where a wish and a fear meet. When the wish and the fear are exactly the same, he said, we call the dream a nightmare.

A dream is a place where a wish and a fear meet. When the wish and the fear are exactly the same we call the dream a nightmare.

When the wish and the fear are exactly the same, he said, we call the dream a nightmare.

A dream is the place where a wish and a fear meet. When the wish and the fear are exactly the same, we call the dream a nightmare.

a dream is the place where a wish and a fear meet. When the wish and the fear are exactly the same, he said, we call the dream a nightmare

that a dream is the place where a wish and a fear meet. When the wish and the fear are exactly the same, he said, we call the dream a nightmare.

a dream is the place where a wish and a fear meet.

I always got nervous the nights we played in the World Series. First pitch, I was nervous. Then after that, forget it; I'd start playing.

Before I pitch any game, from spring training to Game 7 of the World Series, I'm scared to death.