Quotes About Anxiety

Because my parents were illegal, they couldn't trust anybody. They were always nervous. A neighbor could be like, 'These people are making too much noise, their children are making too much noise,' and the cops could knock at our door and ask for our papers, and that's it. It's that simple. So you're always a little closed.

The truth is, I hate to perform. I get such bad stage fright, it makes me physically ill.

The money is what made me miserable. I want to be free of that stress.

What is my life for and what am I going to do with it? I don't know and I'm afraid. I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want.

I wake up every morning fearing I am going to fail. But I love a challenge, big or small. There's so much I want to do. I only sleep four hours a night.

Oh, the things we invent when we are scared and want to be rescued.

All worry is atheism, because it is a want of trust in God.

With silly stuff, it's seventy-five percent confidence. I always tell people that it's because I'm nervous about getting that next laugh and I need to hear it. I always want to condense a joke

The hypochondriac disease consists in indigestion and consequent flatulency, with anxiety or want of pleasurable sensation.

Fear hurries on my tongue through want of courage.

I'm f**king pathetic when it comes to being an entertainer. People come because they want to see me have a nervous breakdown.

Naturally, the neurotic wants you to love him twice as much, for he's going to cut it in half anyway.

Many people today don't want honest answers insofar as honest means unpleasant or disturbing, They want a soft answer that turneth away anxiety.

I'm not ashamed to say I fear something. Besides me having a fear to fly, I also don't want to scare other people. When I'm on a plane, I don't want to freak out everyone else, too.

I worry constantly and obsess over things, but I just don't let fear stand in the way of doing something that I really want to do.

I dream about my teeth, losing a tooth, which I think means that you want control back.

The country is suffering from musical-chairs syndrome. We all dance around for a bit and then when we try to sit down again, somebody doesn't have a chair. We're running scared; we want ours.

Almost all negative moods are missing one key element - calm. By learning calm, you learn to deal with difficult areas. Calm allows us to achieve what we want, without being overwhelmed by anxiety.

It's just I might get distracted, and I get lost kind of easily, and sometimes I have really bad days...when, you know, I just want to hide or scream or bleed or something, and...all that...

There's an anxiety of wanting to please the studios. You want to prove to them that you can do it and sometimes you might jump at a project that you're not totally passionate about.

That's one of my biggest obstacles. I'm afraid of failure. I want to succeed so bad that I become afraid of failing.

I mean, knowing people, people are terrified of the unknown and they want to just kill the unknown.

You go from these high hopes when you're writing to just a desperate want of not making a complete fool of yourself by the end of it.

It is observed of gold, by an old epigrammatist, that to have it is to be in fear, and to want it is to be in sorrow.