Quotes About Anxiety

Depression is a response to past loss, and anxiety is a response to future loss." Both reflect a mind mired in rumination, one dwelling on the past, the other worrying about the future. What mainly distinguishes the two disorders is their tense.

existential distress

Mental time travel is constantly taking us off the frontier of the present moment. But when time travel turns obsessive, it fosters the backward-looking gaze of depression and the forward pitch of anxiety.

As a culture," Pollan writes, "we seem to have arrived at a place where whatever native wisdom we may once have possessed about eating has been replaced by confusion and anxiety.

It seems to me that all these factors—from the industrialization of our food to the belief that cooking for our family is a chore rather than a fundamental luxury with unrecognized benefits for the people we love—are directly responsible for our food-related diseases and illnesses, and what will ultimately drive our need to turn our food confusion into knowledge and our anxiety into assuredness.

the spike in environmental alarmism comes at a time when anxiety, depression, and suicide are rising within the general population, especially among adolescents, in both the United States and Europe.67 Seventy percent of American teenagers call anxiety and depression a major problem.68

That's what people do. Kill the things they're afraid of.

I know all about dreams that make you want to scream.

The thing I fear most is fear.

My life has been filled with terrible misfortune; most of which never happened.

He who fears he will suffer, already suffers from his fear.

There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

We are never 'at home': we are always outside ourselves. Fear, desire, hope, impel us towards the future; they rob us of feelings and concern for what now is, in order to spend time over what will be – even when we ourselves shall be no more. [C] 'Calamitosus est animus futuri anxius' [Wretched is a mind anxious about the future].

A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.

We have nothing to fear but fear itself

It is fear that I am most afraid of.

My life has been full of terrible misfortunes, most of which never happened.

He who fears he will suffer, already suffers because of his fear.

After all of this, I do not want to be eaten by some random demon who just wanted a postshow snack.

Is he all right? Jane asked. Oh, sure, probably losing a fight against a squirrel, Angus said. Or his shadow...

Would it make you feel better if I had a panic attack? Jane sat on the couch and suppressed a small yawn. I mean, it's almost four in the morning and a little early for a panic attack, but I can try to muster up the energy to fake one.

He wished his tongue wasn't quite so dry and that the skin round his neck didn't feel so very tight.

On the other hand, the last week had pretty much been one waking nightmare after another; if this kept up, her dreams wouldn't have the power to terrify her.

The personal dream of humans will vary, but globally it is mostly a nightmare. If we look at human society we see a place so difficult to live in because it is ruled by fear.