Quotes About Anxiety

Muchos de nosotros no vivimos nuestros sueños porque vivimos nuestros miedos. LES BROWN, ESCRITOR

His stomach bubbled with anxiety. He'd waited a long time for this. Camp by the riverside. Advice he'd received years ago—and as true as ever. If you waited by the river long enough, eventually your enemies would float by.

Worry is not true thought. Worry is a misuse of the imagination.

The moment that we hold some solidified idea about Reality- rather than relying on direct perception of the world- we inevitably give rise to anxiety and fear.

There are two kinds of knowledge … One consists of beliefs, opinions, conjectures – having an idea of something. (…) But this is not the true knowing. (…) We think that our beliefs and ideas can be relied on to give us satisfaction. … In fact, they're … our primary source of anxiety and fear, because they're always subject to contradiction and doubt.

She knows that she needs new friends but introductions are hard to come by when your natural state is shyness.

If we are afraid of being rejected by others, we see signs of imminent rejection everywhere. We know that buying into that fear will not liberate us, but the possibility of rejection is so fear-inducing that it seems like a violation of basic logic not to focus on it.

The fields of psychology and psychiatry have also inadvertently contributed to the problem. Ideas that are not evidence-based proliferate, such as Freud's Oedipus complex (you are sexually attracted to your parents, which creates a hidden conflict, giving rise to anxiety), while evidence-based ones lie dormant.

But if you are told that you have a 10 percent chance of dying within the next year, you might worry a lot more, perhaps even choosing to live your life differently. And if you are told that you have 10 percent chance of dying within the next minute, you'll probably panic. So it's the imminent possibility of death that drives the fear—which means that the most sensible way to calculate fear of death would be to think about it on a per-hour basis.

Most of our fears and most of our anxieties don't exist in the present

No andéis preocupados por vuestra vida, qué comeréis, ni por vuestro cuerpo, con qué os vestiréis…».

People dread losses more than they look forward to gains, that they dwell on setbacks more than the savor good fortune, and that they are more stubd by criticism then they are heartened by praise.

The monsters in my head are scared of love.

Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.

I'd love to do a comedy. I'm terrified of comedy. I don't think I'm funny, but I guess that's why it's so thrilling.

In this county, we had to walk, eat, sleep and love in fear.

We invent what we love and what we fear.

Self-esteem and self-love are the opposites of fear; the more you like yourself, the less you fear anything.

I actually love swimming but I just hate jumping in the water.

Love looks forward, hate looks back, anxiety has eyes all over its head.

If I write something, I fear it will happen, and if I love too much, I fear I will lose that person; nevertheless, I cannot stop writing or loving.

Her forehead was a maze of anxious little grooves, from a lifetime of wondering about whether everyone within range was OK.

Greed, like the love of comfort, is a kind of fear.

What do you fear, most of all? The possibility that love may not be enough.