Quotes About Anxiety

I never knew how to act or what to say, and when I did work up the courage to speak, I always seemed to say the wrong thing.

Does anyone else find this shit completely terrifying

I didn't get to find out who or what Kilgore was, because my father walked over and closed Milo's pod canopy for him. Then he walked back over and watched nervously as I raised his QComm and placed the video call to my mother.

Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.

Of course, no one is easier to terrorize than the person who believes that everything is over when his fleeting phenomenon is extinguished.

Flights are expansive moments when the phone doesn't ring and the Internet doesn't work. The maxim that flying time is wasted time liberates me from my anxieties and guilt feelings, and it strips me of all ambitions, leaving room for a different sort of existence. A happy, idiotic existence, the kind that doesn't try to make the most of time but is satisfied with merely finding the most enjoyable way to spend it.

If you are preparing for an important meeting or event, for instance, you often fantasize about everything that could possibly go wrong beforehand. This is basically just an anxious mind generating a negative, insecure, and incapable image of itself. With visualization, the very space of our imagination, often dominated by fantasies of the future and nightmares of the past, could be converted into a kind of mindfully creative space, a kind of movie studio that actually benefits sentient beings.

Inhabiting a human nervous system is kind of like living in a house where the doorbell and the burglar alarm make exactly the same sound. Because

Though I was excited about the Sojourner Truth play, it was not reassuring to think that my entire future might depend on the success of that one show.

My fear of abandonment is exceeded only by my terror of intimacy.

I think what weakens people most is fear of wasting their strength.

Inappropriate, anxiety-driven, fear-driven work would only interfere with and distract from what God was already doing. My "work" assignment was to pay more attention to what God does than what I do, and then to find, and guide others to find, the daily, weekly, yearly rhythms that would get this awareness into our bones. Holy Saturday for a start. And then Sabbath keeping. Staying in touch with people in despair, knowing them by name, and waiting for resurrection.

Man's loneliness is but his fear of life.

Man's loneliness is but his fear of life.

Our own era is one haunted by the shadow of futurity, precisely because there is no future.

Happiness in myself makes me apprehensive.

I wake up afraid that she will be taken and folded up in a closet like clean linen.

I'm afraid something will happen to my hands," he says, "I need my hands.

My mother was in the bathtub crying and I was standing outside the door waiting, just in case she decided to slip her head under and keep it there. The other kids were upstairs. The problem was about money, of course. She was afraid she wouldn't have enough for us to eat.

That's silly, Anna," said the Honorable Olive. "Being afraid is silly, you know it is.

Sometimes it's like I'm living my life waiting for more bad news.

This is the hour I hide everything Behind my eyes To see if you can see All the trouble my brain's been brewing. Yes, I feel I am the worst and you are the best And yet, and yet, Nothing bad unfolds as we sit, Young and nervous, Alive and bursting, With futures that may not entwine. Who am I? Who am I to sabotage what may be too small For even chaos to notice And disassemble?

Kat threw a glance over her shoulder, apparently checking to be sure they weren't being followed. When she saw nothing, she slacked her rapid pace a bit. "I've just had it up to my eyeballs with those guys. Them and their stupid feelings." "What

He was immense. Long and thick and hard, the club of his sex rose from between his thighs. I know I said before that I always thought a man's penis is the most ridiculous part of him but there was nothing ridiculous about this. Intimidating was a word that came to mind. Also frightening, scary, and oh-my-God-how-is-he-going-to-fit-that-thing-inside-me? Well,