Quotes About Anxiety

By buying a share in a "total market" index fund, you acquire an ownership share in all the major businesses in the economy. Index funds eliminate the anxiety and expense of trying to predict which individual stocks, bonds, or mutual funds will beat the market.

He had developed a superstitious fear of the instant, that tiny hole through which all the time available to human beings must pass.

By the time I could see again, the captain had announced the final descent into Seattle. Couldn't they find a less ominous phrase for it? I don't like flying as it is, even without the implication that before landing I might want to have all my worldly and spiritual affairs in order.

When someone reaches middle age, people he knows begin to get put in charge of things, and knowing what he knows about the people who are being put in charge of things scares the hell out of him.

understand what Ernest Becker meant when he said something like 'To live fully is to live with an awareness of the rumble of terror that underlies everything

Worry in the dark can make it even darker.

It was the first honest emotional connection I'd had in a while. So I immediately panicked and had to leave.

I know I have to do the right thing. And the sooner you do the right thing, the better. You get it over with, and you don't have to worry about it anymore. But who does that in real life? Instead, you procrastinate and think about it and put it off and think about it some more until that one little pebble grows into a giant block inside your head.

Why do I keep evading my work? Is it because I'm afraid of being confronted by my lack of abilities?

Have I become the girl who waits by the phone, hoping it will ring, who asks a friend to dial her number to make sure the phone is working?

Don't you ever get scared?" I ask. "Of what?" She says. "Of not being good enough." "You mean at writing?" L'il asks. I nod. "What if I'm the only one who thinks I can do it and no one else does? What if I'm fooling myself-" "Oh, Carrie." She smiles. "Don't you know that every writer feels that way? Fear is part of the job.

I make her as jittery as a gerbil in a cobra pit.

Every door and hallway reverberated with the nerve-stabbing whine of high-speed dental drills; soon Stranahan's molars started to throb, and he began to feel claustrophobic.

We're obsessed with filling in the blank for a Mad Libs line that goes: _____ makes us human. Why? Scratch and sniff the what makes us human obsession and you get a strong whiff of something that could fit into that blank: our insecurity.

The price we pay for the anticipation of our future is anxiety about it.

We're worried - and for good reason - about what it means for the human future if we have only ourselves to rely upon.

I felt a great depression, probably because I never believed that anything would continue, would hold. I never thought my advance would maintain its ground. I always thought there would be a collapse immediately after the advance.

SHANNON: A man can die of panic. HANNAH: Not if he enjoys it as much as you, Mr Shannon.

Oh, dear, dear! I had to walk straight forward—past the last elm tree and into that merciless sunlight. Oh! It beat down on me, scorching me! Whips! . . . Oh, Jesus! . . . Over my face and my body! . . . I tried to walk on fast but was dizzy and they kept closer behind me—! I stumbled, I

Worry is praying to the devil.

Worry is betting against yourself.

Worrying is betting against yourself.

It's not the bad people who are brave I fear, it's the good people who are afraid.

Brenna was anxious because her custody hearing was tomorrow