Quotes About Anxiety

My wife had taken off on a plane. Two airplanes had crashed into the World Trade Center. I, of course, like any other person, felt potentially devastated, panicky a little bit.

My dad had been in the second world war, had electric shock treatment, suffered from anxiety and was abusive to my mum. I kept a lid on my feelings at school but, when I was 18, dropped out of everything and couldn't even be bothered to get out of bed.

Getting into Sundance is a certain sort of passport to a level of anxiety I've never experienced, even having had a baby in the NICU for a week. For about ten minutes, you're a world-class director. Then you become an entry-level, harried, low level concierge with absolutely no juice.

The genre of horror is really just a way to manage much larger, much more terrifying realities in our daily worlds.

Why I came here, I know not; where I shall go it is useless to inquire - in the midst of myriads of the living and the dead worlds, stars, systems, infinity, why should I be anxious about an atom?

I'm not one of those guys that has a great worldview. I kind of deal with terror and fear and isolation and abandonment.

The worm of paranoia begins to eat into even the hardest adversary.

In neurotics, worm phobias are usually found as well as snake phobias.

Shyness is about the fear of social judgments - at a job interview or a party you might be excessively worried about what people think of you. Whereas an introvert might not feel any of those things at all, they simply have the preference to be in a quieter setting.

For people worried about the Great Recession and the uncertainty of what is coming next, the characters of 'Mad Men' are good company.

I am always worried when someone says, 'This is perfect.'

I'm not interested in making art unless I'm totally freaked out and worried people are going to hate it.

I have always worried about things more than I should.

Nerves provide me with energy... It's when I don't have them, when I feel at ease, that's when I get worried.

I was so worried about winning, it was as if I was caught up in my own web.

I'm always worried about everything. Like spiders.

I really wish I worried less.

I tend to be pessimistic about everything: If things seem to be going good, I'm worried that it's going to end; if things are bad, then I'm worried that it's going to be permanent. It's not a very comfortable attitude to have all the time.

There's scenes where I really want to get things right, and all the kids know me as the person who says, 'Sorry.' I think I've gotten a lot better with that, but it's still the thing that I'm still worried about, trying to get the scene perfect.

I don't get butterflies. I get a good feeling in my stomach before I compete. When I don't, I get worried.

My husband and I were excited about having a kid - it was having a baby that had us worried. We had a lot to learn, so like good liberal arts graduates, we signed up for a class.

Practically everybody knows what it's like to feel anxious, worried, nervous, afraid, uptight, or panicky. Often, anxiety is just a nuisance, but sometimes it can cripple you and prevent you from doing what you really want with your life. But I have some great news for you: You can change the way you feel.

I don't like to look back, and I'm always worried about the next thing rather than resting on the laurels or the degradations of the last thing.

The only big life challenge I think I'm worried about is a mid-life crisis because I've done so little. I think if people who've lived normal lives have mid-life crises and buy motorbikes, what is a man who's done nothing?