Quotes About Anxiety

She knew she was deliberately finding flaw with everything about herself, and finding very little to celebrate. She second-guessed everything she said and did.

don't fear tomorrow, 'til today's done with you.

Another piece of advice is not to make a big deal out of coming and going. If you share excited energy when you come and go, it only feeds an anxious mind.

But petting a fretful puppy can actually create exactly the outcome you don't want—a puppy that always gets upset whenever she is inside a car or her kennel.

It was shaping up to be one of a handful of days in my life that filled me with the kind of anticipation and excitement that makes your anus tingle ever so slightly.

If there were not anxiety behind those apples, Cézanne would not interest me any more than Bouguereau.

There was enough tension in the room to send a fleet of the nervous running for their tranquilizers.

Do you sometimes wish you could fast-forward a week? You know something bad's coming up, and you know you'll get through it, but the prospect just makes you feel sick. I worried for about thirty minutes, and though I knew there was no point in doing so, I could feel my anxiety twisting me up in a knot. 'Bullshit,' I told myself stoutly. 'This is utter bullshit.

Your life was not right when you were actually surprised that someone didn't want to kill you.

I couldn't speak, for once in my life. I was terrified of seeing him again; and I would rather have shaved my head than not see him again.

So me and my big ball of worry went back to my room to play catch some more.

When you are lacking in confidence, the last thing you want to do is perform.

People with big ideas worry. They lie awake at night and fret as they try to climb up the social or financial ladder. They probably feel proud of themselves for what they've achieved, but I'm proud of the fact that I've done very little - and hence have little to worry about - and I've still got somewhere.

Sometimes I have a little social anxiety, and meeting people can be a challenge for me.

There's a book that's critical to understanding anxiety, a 17th-century book, 'The Anatomy of Melancholy,' by Robert Burton. I wanted to write something like that.

The word that I constantly hear out of women is 'fear.' It's almost like a background melody. Women have excellent degrees and experience, but we are afraid we aren't good enough because we have such high expectations.

I always have the same thing - which is the fear of not getting a laugh - that I've had from the time I was a kid; obsessing over, 'This joke doesn't quite work, we've got to get this right.' I was always like that, whether I was a member of a six-person ensemble or whether I'm the center of a show.

As an actor, one of my greatest fears is losing my memory.

The pressure in Brazil is a little complicated, a little menacing.

It shouldn't be normal to be anxious all the time about your children, so women should seek mental health help if they're having excessive levels of anxiety.

I am anxious that, in some areas, changes across Government departments are making things worse for our nation's mental health.

I think you can get so mentally beat by kind of working yourself up too much.

I used to struggle mentally in these preseason games because you know you're not going to be in there long.

Anytime that your name is up in a trade, I'm sure it can affect you mentally, and that obviously carries over to the court.