Quotes About Anxiety

Steve McCroskey Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit amphetamines

Steve McCroskey Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue

Fear is finding fault with the future.

Airline travel is hours of boredom interrupted by moments of stark terror.

There were things that Pumpkin Head—now not Pumpkin Head anymore—had to do to be a girl. He had to be careful how he dressed, and how he acted. He had to be careful how he talked, and he always had to be calm. He was very frightened of what would happen if he didn't stay calm. For his face was really just a wonderful plastic one. The real Pumpkin Head was still inside, locked in, waiting to come out.

If only it were so easy. Real-world bad dreams are much worse.

It's perhaps easier now than ever before to make a good living; it's perhaps harder than ever before to stay calm, to be free of career anxiety.

Status anxiety definitely exists at a political level. Many Iraqis were annoyed with the US essentially for reasons of status: for not showing them respect, for humiliating them.

The largest part of what we call 'personality' is determined by how we've opted to defend ourselves against anxiety and sadness".

For many years my acting came from a place of surmounting some enormous obstacle, confronting some stern and faceless judge who would condemn me to a pit of hell if I didn't achieve the "zone," if even for a moment. Not a particularly happy place to work from.

To begin with, it's true, she read with trepidation and some unease. The sheer endlessness of books outfaced her and she had no idea how to go on; there was no system to her reading, with one book leading to another, and often she had two or three on the go at the same time.

Isn't it strange, how one so afraid of contracting a fatal malady...should so earnestly wish for death, as well?

Look at him he's just now getting ready and dressed and its 6 fucking minutes to the show! God fucking musicians.

It's hard to explain how much that feeling of the bottom potentially falling out at any moment takes its toll. It makes you anxious, of course, and constant anxiety is impossible for the body to handle. So you develop a coping mechanism, and for us that meant shutting down.

I'm not afraid of the dark I know. It's the dark I don't that terrifies me.

That was her life, Rey reflected: a succession of anxious moments, interrupted only by the novelty of occasional panic.

Flying involves endless hours of sheer boredom, punctuated by moments of stark terror.

The deed is nothing. It is the thought that breeds fear; and we achieve little by lingering.

Was it too much to expect a future?

It was all Ray could do not to pee his green pants.

Waiting for her in reception, pretending to read a paper, he was surprised by his own nervousness; an indication of how little one knew oneself. She

EVERY SIN CAUSES a special anxiety on the spirit, which can only be erased by repentance, which transforms the anxiety itself into inner security and courage. —RABBI ABRAHAM ISAAC KOOK (1865–1935)

The insecure are as self-absorbed as the boastful. The former worry that everyone is watching them. The latter worry that everyone is not.

Croc was furiously signaling for him to pull over. Lady Godiva's hand was over her mouth. She looked terrified.