Quotes About Anxiety

I always felt like whatever I achieved - grades, salaries, promotions, even my wife and children - was a mistake. Like I had somehow fooled everyone into thinking I was worthy of what they'd given me.

Sometimes I want to clean up my desk and go out and say, "Respect me; I'm a respectable grown-up!" and other times I just want to jump into a paper bag and shake and bake myself to death.

Horses get anxious when their expectations are not met.

anxious executives continued to exploit what had made the company successful in the first place and avoided exploring new innovations and growth. That kind of exploit-over-explore outlook is likely to leave the company larder bare of new products and put it at risk of becoming the next Blockbuster, Polaroid, or Compaq

As Wegner explained, "We stay awake worrying that we cannot sleep, and we spend all day mentally in the refrigerator when we are hoping to diet.

To be honest, I find going out pretty scary and intimidating. Got all those people checking you out, with only one purpose: hooking up. I'm quite the dork, I'd rather sit home and play Scrabble. But that doesn't get you a girl, does it?

and it is our fear of our regrets that causes our fear of the visitors.

YOU must ask for help when anxiety makes you feel out of control. Because we need you. We need you to be well and whole and taking care of yourselves. I know that the prevailing rise of anti-intellectualism that's plaguing our world right now can be unbelievably depressing.

I live with depression and anxiety.* I take medication, I practice meditation and CBT, and I see a therapist regularly to help me handle it. It doesn't control my life, and it doesn't define my life . . . but when it's really bad, it sure feels like it does. When it's really bad, it feels like it is the only thing in my entire life, the Alpha and Omega of my existence.

Like all the other things I'd agonized over, the process of making the decision took more time and energy—and was more painful and scary—than the result.

I craved for the past, resented the present, and dreaded the future.

Bir korku duyup duymad???m? anlamaya çal???yorum. Ama korku duyup duymad???m üzerinde dü?ünebiliyorsam, bu korku gerçek bir korku olamaz.

The pleasure of living and the pleasure of the orgasm are identical. Extreme orgasm anxiety forms the basis of the general fear of life.

Love is the absence of Anxiety.

The "stiff, dead, retracted pelvis" is one of man's most frequent vegetative disturbances. It is responsible for lumbago as well as for hemorrhoidal disturbances. Elsewhere, we shall demonstrate an important connection between these disturbances and genital cancer in women, which is so common. Thus, the "deadning of the pelvis" has the same function as the deadening of the abdomen, i.e., to avoid feelings, particularly those of pleasure and anxiety.

I'm afraid of you, little man, very much afraid, because the future of mankind depends on you. I'm afraid of you because your main aim in life is to escape--from yourself.

Anxiety is fear of one's self.

I am a bundle of nerves dressed up to look like a man!

Comedy is defiance. It's a snort of contempt in the face of fear and anxiety. And it's the laughter that allows hope to creep back on the inhale.

Too much concern about how well one is doing in a task sometimes disrupts performance by loading short-term memory with pointless anxious thoughts. The conclusion is straightforward: self-control requires attention and effort.

You may know that there is really (almost) nothing to worry about, but you cannot help images of disaster from coming to mind.

Gruesome images, endlessly repeated in the media, cause everyone to be on edge. As I know from experience, it is difficult to reason oneself into a state of complete calm.

Too much concern about how well one is doing in a task sometimes disrupts performance by loading short-term memory with pointless anxious thoughts.

But Habib was overwhelmed by all his options. Why spend the night with Sophia when spending the night with Katrina might be even more sensational? Why smoke some opium when getting drunk on ouzo might be more fun? Or what about both? Time and again, I would find him on the terrace of Loulou's taverna in a paralyzing dither. Often, I had to suppress a chuckle over his befuddling embarrassment of riches, but for Habib it was no laughing matter. Hedonism made him anxious.