Quotes About Anxiety

More than anything I am afraid of fear itself overwhelming me. One must use any bit of folly to control it.

So many people live in fear, fear of losing what they have, the little job that provides their daily bread, the wife they have managed to acquire, fear for their health, fear on account of their children, fear at the thought of old age.

Maybe our fear of intimacy is rooted in our fear of the dark, especially the deep dark within, the great unknown. We perceive our inner darkness as a void, an emptiness that fills us with anxiety. We try to stuff this black hole instead of realizing that we are the black hole and that its emptiness is actually a fathomless freedom.

You get so afraid of failure and so afraid of losing and so afraid of not being the best that it's not a natural drive - it's born out of fear of failure. Which helps in Hollywood.

Sadie felt a swelling love and of worry for him -- what was the difference in the end? It was never worth worrying about someone you didn't love. And it wasn't love if you didn't worry.

It's just an absence seizure. I used to have them a lot as a kid. I rarely have them as an adult except when I'm unusually stressed." "You should see a doctor.

Still . . . my mom may have been trying to get me not to worry. I am "neurotic." "Neurotic" means "I think about things until I am sick.

Where is room for love? All you have is fear and a to-do list.

I don't want to die," A.J. says after a bit. "I just find it difficult to be here all the time. Do you think I'm crazy?" "No.

Fear like that stays inside you forever if you don't find a way to get rid of it.

I'm afraid that if I stop drinking, I'll be dreary, and anxious all the time, and dull," I had told him. "Well, you might be," he had said matter-of-factly. "The only thing you can know for sure is that you'll be a whole lot less drunk." After a while, a whole lot less drunk was what I aspired to be.

There was no relaxing when you lived a secret.

It's unfortunate and worth noting that the same word we use to describe [pathological anxiety], we also use to describe our feelings about a high-pressure day at the office. The word 'anxiety', in all of its derivations, is among the most overused in the English language.

Fear seems to be the ruling judge.

Sometimes I felt like I would go insane not having the answers to such simple questions. Of course, it was always hardest during the night, then the darkness stole away any signs of hope.

My heart was in my mouth.

I think it's one of the main negative emotional ingredients that fuels show business, because there's so much at stake and the fear of failure looms large.

People are always worried about what's happening next. They often find it difficult to stand still, to occupy the now without worrying about the future. People are generally not satisfied with what they have; they are very concerned with what they are going to have.

But that day I was anxious. I was nervous and worried, uneasy and distracted. I paced around and never felt settled. I didn't care for the sensation, yet I realized it was possibly a natural progression of my evolving soul, and therefore I tried my best to embrace it.

People are always worried about what's happening next. They often find it difficult to stand still, to occupy the now without worrying about the future. People are not generally satisfied with what they have; they are very concerned with what they are going to have.

I cannot lie still. I cannot be alone with this. I need to scream and thrash, because it stays away when I scream. When I'm silent, it finds me, it tracks me down and pierces me and says, "Now I've got you! Now you belong to me!

Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives.

In the midst of great anxiety and great sadness, it takes an honorable man to nourish the goodness around him, small and fragile as it may seem.

Don't let fear scare you. Feel the fear and do it anyway. Fear is often false evidence appearing real.