Quotes About Anxiety

Even then, as I stood there, that first morning, filled with apprehension at the terrifying implications of my dreadful situation

R. D. Laing once said there are three things human beings are afraid of: death, other people, and their own minds.

there are three things human beings are afraid of: death, other people, and their own minds.

Depression is a response to past loss, and anxiety is a response to future loss.

By the early 1970s, when I went to college, everything you heard about LSD seemed calculated to terrify. It worked on me: I'm less a child of the psychedelic 1960s than of the moral panic that psychedelics provoked. I also had my own personal reason for steering clear of psychedelics: a painfully anxious adolescence that left me (and at least one psychiatrist) doubting my grip on sanity.

My native tense is future conditional, a low simmer of unspecified worry being the usual condition.

La falta de una cultura de comida estable nos hace muy vulnerables a las lisonjas de los ingenieros alimentarios y los estrategas del marketing, para quienes el dilema del omnívoro no es tanto un dilema como una oportunidad. La industria alimentaria está muy interesada en exacerbar nuestra ansiedad ante lo que debemos o no comer, para así poder aliviarla después con nuevos productos.

Andrew Solomon, in his book The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression, traces the links between addiction and depression, which frequently co-occur, as well as the intimate relationship between depression and anxiety.

For the first time since embarking on this project, I began to understand what the volunteers in the cancer-anxiety trials had been trying to tell me: how it was that a psychedelic journey had granted them a perspective from which the very worst life can throw at us, up to and including death, could be regarded objectively and accepted with equanimity.

Nutritionism tends to foster a great deal of anxiety around the experience of shopping for food and eating it.

D. Laing once said there are three things human beings are afraid of: death, other people, and their own minds. Put me down as two for three.

I think the O.J. Simpson case conjured all the paranoia, the racial anxiety, but also the racial fatigue that America has endured over the last half century.

You can train to be ready for the nerves, and we simulate it all the time, but it's never the same when it actually matters.

I'm so nervous. I've always been nervous, ever since I was a kid.

Be it while recording a song or singing to a live audience, I still get nervous. I feel that is very important. This is what makes me perform well.

I'm not comfortable singing in front of people yet. That's going to take another 100 performances.

Every single movie I go up for I'm just checking the phone to see if the e-mail's come in, to see if I got the part yet, which makes me more anxious.

The more fears that we're exposed to, the more fears that we are handling every single day, asks us to exert more and more control over our lives.

Every single night I'm nervous. You never know how the audience is going to react.

There are days where I can go into a room full of people, talk to every single person, and feel completely at ease, and feel like making every single person laugh, and feel like everyone's having a great time. There are other times where I go into a room of people, and I literally want to run and hide.

My wife's biggest fear is air pollution, living in London as we do. She's convinced that's the big problem. And my own is sink holes and the inevitability of us all, at some point, collapsing into a sink hole and never being seen again.

I am actually a big sissy, and growing up, I never used to watch horror movies. 'Bambi' gave me nightmares.

I used to second guess myself all the time. I can sit there and work in circles when I'm nervous about what I'm doing.

I love horror because you can never just sit back in your seat. You always have to be on the edge of it.