Quotes About Anxiety

For someone like myself in whom the ability to trust others is so cracked and broken that I am wretchedly timid and am forever trying to read the expression on people's faces.

The day you stop worrying will be the first day of your new life; anxiety takes you in circles, trust in yourself and become free.

Worry is nothing but practical infidelity. The person who worries reveals his lack of trust in God and that he is trusting too much in self.

Working constantly may be visible proof that deep inside we do not trust God.

I think you want to show a level of transparency that breeds trust. You don't want to show a level of desperation that breeds concern.

I want to stay hopeful, even though I get scared about why we're even alive at all.

Anxiety is the rust of life, destroying its brightness and weakening its power. A childlike and abiding trust in Providence is its best preventive and remedy.

I don't trust anybody. Not anybody. And the more that I care about someone, the more sure I am they're going to get tired of me and take off.

A trip to the hospital is always a descent into the macabre. I have never trusted a place with shiny floors.

The things we worry about the most are the hints we trust God with the least.

Anxiety in human life is what squeaking and grinding are in machinery that is not oiled. In life, trust is the oil.

People hide the truth because they're afraid.

Sometimes I dread the truth of the lines I say. But the dread must never show.

Everything makes me nervous." Stevie thought a moment. "Well . . . not everything. But man-eaters definitely make me nervous." "But tigers are man-eaters . . . and you're half tiger." Stevie stared out the front window for several seconds ruminating on that bit of information before admitting, "Dear God. I'm terrified of myself.

Stevie stared out the front window for several seconds ruminating on that bit of information before admitting, "Dear God. I'm terrified of myself.

You might want to hold tight to the arms of the chair." That was the last warning he offered before he bent his head…

I felt the way I feel sometimes right before you go to sleep, when all you want to do is sleep, and then suddenly, when you're almost there, when your mind goes dizzy and it's almost like you don't have a body at all, your remember how long the night is, how you might not wake back up. And like a shock, you're sitting straight up, scared to do the thing you've done every day of your life.

Nervous means you want to play. Scared means you don't want to play.

Many women are so gripped with fear over the loss of a man that they think of him constantly.

Mr. Marbleton tilted his head. "Do you really think of happiness as such a fragile entity?" "Mine is," she answered, still smiling. "I don't know that I've ever been properly happy. I simply careen between moments of intense buoyancy and moments of intense misery. Only my anxiety is constant: When I hope, I'm anxious that my hopes will come to nothing; when I fear, I'm anxious that my fears will all come true.

Still scared witless?" Of course she was. He'd had to remind her there was a citron tart on the premises.

Only my anxiety is constant: When I hope, I'm anxious that my hopes will come to nothing; when I fear, I'm anxious that my fears will all come true.

These days, insecure in our relationships and anxious about intimacy, we look to technology for ways to be in relationships and protect ourselves from them at the same time.

Children make theories when they are confused or anxious.