Quotes About Anxiety

But I do not fear him now, for I suspect that he has known horrors beyond my ken. Now I fear for him.

My fear again waned low, since a natural phenomenon tends to dispel broodings over the unknown.

All he seeks from life is not to think. For some reason thought is very horrible to him, and anything which stirs the imagination he flees as a plague.

The oldest and most powerful emotion is fear... And the oldest and most powerful kind of fear is that of the unknown.

the abnormal alway excites aversion, distrust, and fear

abnormal always excites aversion, distrust, and fear.

Memories and possibilities are ever more hideous than realities.

El miedo es una de las emociones más antiguas y poderosas de la humanidad, y el miedo más antiguo y poderoso es el temor a lo desconocido

His frightened horse had gone home, but his frightened wits never quite did that.

Infeliz es aquel a quien sus recuerdos infantiles sólo traen miedo y tristeza.

the silent damnable small hours of the morning when one cannot sleep.

Is it possible that even my latest fear is sheer delusion?

That flopping or pattering was monstrous--I could not look upon the degenerate creatures responsible for it. I would keep my eyes shut till the sound receded toward the west.

He lived in terror of, well, becoming ordinary.

If we can relax when our strong emotions come, then we don't pass fear on to our children and to future generations.

The "master" would always be the one who could wait without anxiety;

Unlike films, plays don't take place in the past. The fear,anxiety of the actors is happening now, in front of you. If performing is risky, we identify with the possibility of granduer and disaster (The Body and Seven Stories).

I put my arms out in front of me so the dog wouldn't rip my hands off. I must have looked like a sleepwalker, but as I wanted my hands for other purposes, I didn't care about this baroque pose, though as a rule I cared fanatically about the way I looked, and behaved as if the entire world had nothing better to do than constantly observe me for slips in a very complicated and private etiquette

They say you never know how someone will react when the grenade is thrown.

There were some night paths the mind was better off not traversing;

He dialed the number. It was picked up on the third ring. "Good afternoon, Mr. Goldberg!" Reason one for his hesitation: The guy's voice gave him the heebie-jeebies. The man—he sounded really young—was unfailingly polite and spoke in exclamation points, as though he were trying out for an old-time musical. The sound chilled Goldberg. But there was more to it than that. There

I don't do the wait-and-worry wife well." "Nice alliteration. The two D's and then all those W's.

Worry about what you can control. If you can't control it, let it go.

In the dream he could see Burt Wesson bearing down on him. He could see the gleeful, almost giddy violence in Burt's face as he drew closer and closer. In the dream, Myron had plenty of time to step out of harm's way. Too much time really. But in this dream—as in many—Myron could not move. His legs would not respond, his feet mired in thick, dream-world quicksand while the inevitable approached. But