Quotes About Anxiety

14. Hateful Things: Someone has suddenly fallen ill and one summons the exorcist. Since he is not home, one has to send messages to look for him. After one has had a long fretful wait, the exorcist finally arrives, and with a sigh of relief one asks him to start his incantations. But perhaps he has been exorcising too many evil spirits recently; for hardly has he installed himself and begun praying when his voice becomes drowsy. Oh, how hateful!

The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.

The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.

There are more things, Lucilius, that frighten us than injure us, and we suffer more in imagination than in reality.

To be feared is to fear: no one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.

Fear keeps pace with hope. Nor does their so moving together surprise me; both belong to a mind in suspense, to a mind in a state of anxiety through looking into the future. Both are mainly due to projecting our thoughts far ahead of us instead of adapting ourselves to the present. Thus it is that foresight, the greatest blessing humanity has been given, is transformed into a curse.

Este o veche frica fata de mul?ime, mai ales când emana frica ?i ca atare reac?iile ii devin imprevizibile.

The only thing that restrains you is fear , Anton Gorodetsky. For yourself, or for people—that's not important. But we are restrained by horror . And that is why we observe the Treaty.

Anyone can write a story based on the kind of horror where you see a guy in car and then there's the bad guy in the back seat. It's infantile to rely on that for telling a story. That's like going to bed and thinking there's a monster under your bed. It's silly.

No me extrañaría que después de años de palabras escamoteadas Julián terminara teniéndole miedo a las elipsis—.

la pérdida de lo cotidiano se traduce en una suerte de ansiedad general asordinada en la que, buscando recuperar el tiempo que no pasamos juntos, nos hundimos.

Restlessness is an itch that, if left unscratched, is a curse.

Anxiety is experiencing failure in advance.

Mary is roused to great anxiety by these rumors (but then, she is roused to great anxiety by a great many things).

Then, as now, anti-vaccination forces fed on anxiety about the individual's fate in industrialized societies; then, as now, they appealed to knee-jerk populism by conjuring up an imaginary elite with an insatiable hunger for control; then, as now, they preached the superiority of subjective beliefs over objective proofs, of knowledge acquired by personal experience rather than through scientific rigor.

Trying to constantly get yourself into movies is extremely stressful and sometimes just impossible.

Skepticism relieved two terrible diseases that afflicted mankind: anxiety and dogmatism.

Before we can solve the problem of stress and anxiety, we have to look at one final actor––and the critical role it plays in setting you up for stress. It's your hidden alarm system; it's called the amygdala.

Often I don't say hello to people for fear that they may not remember me.

I'm more afraid of marriage than death.

So desperate was Kugel for things to turn out for the best, proclaimed Professor Jove, that he couldn't stop worrying about the worst. Hope, said Professor Jove, was Solomon Kugel's greatest failing.

The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

Second, not all thoughts about the future are created equal.

Hope also walks hand in hand with fear, one of the most universal and most painful emotions. When fear is working for us, it reminds us of realistic limits or alerts us when we're straying from our path to a meaningful future. But fear can also hijack us. Fear gives us only three behavioral options: fight, flight, or freeze.