Quotes About Anxiety

If you have stage fright, it never goes away. But then I wonder: is the key to that magical performance because of the fear?

Real dread is knowing that your thoughts lie to you, even when you think you are being honest

Det är nutidsmänniskans tragik att hon har upphört att våga vara rädd. Det är ödesdigert för därmed följer att hon också successivt tvingas sluta med att tänka.

I'm very much afraid of being mad - that's my one fear.

Bayard's worry, the things he could not say, hung as a tension in the air.

Owen jumped up and helped himself to more wine. Othman could almost smell the boy's anxiety. He, more than the more innocent Lily, sensed the potential simmering in the room. Othman observed Owen's taut back. His reserve must be broken down.

Louis experienced a tremor of unease. He was at this man's mercy now.

He felt as if all the clocks in the world stopped at that moment. Would Daniel dare not come to him?

Ah, how young you are, how beautiful. I can't bear to think what will happen to you. I can't bear the thought of watching you wither.

The man's words somehow unflexed him in time and space. He felt momentarily unreal, as if his very existence depended on the next words this stranger would utter. He had to make a noise, take some action, to dispell the terrifying sensation.

His own madness was the last thing he feared.

Surely a freed soul could only be joyful and wild; this was a being filled with anxiety and dread.

He did not want to believe in ghosts, and he feared his own madness.

My lady was just a vague shadow further up the road, tireless. I was afraid of losing her, believing that if I paused to rest, she would simply vanish forever.

There is a point when facing the unknown stops being a longed-for adventure and becomes a terrifying reality.

Indeed, anxiety or angst, as term-coiner Søren Kierkegaard first meant it, is the feeling that matures us, after we take "leaps of faith" into life, into

Money brings security, that was the idea. But it turned out to be just the opposite. If you have a great big house, that meant you had to be fearful again: somebody might rob you. If you had a great big store, you had to be fearful now that there's gonna be a riot—and everything in your store would be stolen. See, money brings more fear than security.

Fear of death is often a justifiable fear of the unknown; of circumstances beyond our personal control which we cannot know and for which we cannot prepare.

Worry is a habit that shatters our peace of mind and needlessly drains our energy, a form of mental masturbation without any benefits.

I've been a bit worried about my maleness lately, somewhere along the line I seem to have picked up too many female hormones.

I expect the experience will give me a trauma at some stage in the future. I'm all right at the moment, but you never know.

Found strange device in bathroom this morning. It looked like an egg timer. It said "Predictor" on the side of the box. I hope my Mother is not dabbling with the occult

Upon the whole, he added nothing to his own happiness by all the dangers, the fatigues, and the perpetual anxiety which he had incurred in the pursuit of unlimited power.

Even before today she felt the daily deluge of alarming news related to Russian hackers, nuclear-armed North Koreans, police officers shooting innocent Black children, deranged gunmen popping up like whack-a-moles ambushing schools and holiday parties and church gatherings, people being violently hauled off airplanes, terrorists in Barcelona, melting ice caps, and dying polar bears, and she is on alert, and terrified, about absolutely everything.