Quotes About Anxiety

Tension seemed natural to her, not a sign of anxiety, but a sign of enjoyment...

They used to rush through here, it was the hurry of men who knew where they were going and were eager to get there. Now they're hurrying because they are afraid. It's not a purpose that drives them, it's fear. They're not going anywhere, they're escaping. And I don't think they know what it is that they want to escape.

En cambio ahora su apresuramiento tiene otro motivo: el miedo. No los empuja ningún propósito, sino tan sólo el miedo. No van a ningún sitio; escapan.

With fear come the lies and the justifications that, no matter how convincing, lower our self-esteem.

It was one of those rare nights when I was kept awake not by my nightmares and anxieties but by something exciting and exhilarating. Most nights I lay awake waiting for some unexpected disaster…I think I somehow felt that as long as I was conscious, nothing bad could happen…

The room was full when I walked in, but as soon as I took my place behind the desk, my nervousness left me.

Yes how the mind arranges itself, tries to sort things into orders, is perturbed if things are not sorted, are not in the right order, nags away.

Given the strong odor of imminent failure

was as if my very presence in the White House had triggered a deep-seated panic, a sense that the natural order had been disrupted. Which is exactly what Donald Trump understood when he started peddling assertions that I had not been born in the United States and was thus an illegitimate president. For millions of Americans spooked by a Black man in the White House, he promised an elixir for their racial anxiety.

The only real difference between Anxiety and Excitement was my willingness to let go of Fear.

I've been having nightmares," she said quietly. "Basically the same dream for months now. I'm exhausted.

T]he immune system is a metaphor for the self. Its ostensible job is the defense of the organism, but it is potentially a treacherous defender, like the Praetorian guard that turns its swords against the emperor. Just as the immune system can unleash the inflammations that ultimately kill us, the self can pick at a psychic scar - often some sense of defeat or abandonment - until a detectable illness appears, such as obsessive-compulsive disorder, depression, or crippling anxiety.

The first time I had a pap smear done, I was so traumatized, I now take prescription Xanax to avoid having panic attacks when I get pap smears done now. And I'm only 24. How many more am I going to have to have for the rest of my life? What am I going to do when I want to have children and every doctor wants to shove his/her fingers and tools inside me?

When you awaken love and laughter, your mind let's go of fear and anxiety, and your happy spirit becomes the healing balm that transforms every aspect of your human experience.

How pointless life could be, what a foolish business of inventing things to love, just so you could dread losing them.

Insomnia's different," I said. It was hard to explain this to people. "You know the light that comes on when you open the refrigerator door? Just imagine it stays on all the time, even after you close the door. That's what it's like in my head. The light stays on.

The last generations's worst fears become the next one's B-grade entertainment.

I have been afraid of putting air in a tire ever since I saw a tractor tire blow up and throw Newt Hardbine's father over the top of the Standard Oil sign.

The last generation's worst fears became the next one's B-grade entertainment.

Why should it feel so risky to count concretely on a future?

it's the thing you fear most that walks beside you all the time.

It's the thing you fear most that walks beside you all the time.

Sometimes, in his nightmares, everything on this desk sings at once. He comes back

Because what would be left, when all these books were in the past? He lay awake nights dreading it.