Quotes About Anxiety

People can die of mere imagination.

That's the last thing I want to do is go on up there and mess up, you know, in front of America.

I'm always thinking 'Don't mess this up.'

I fear dying in the middle of a book. It would be so annoying to write 80,000 words and not get to the end. I'm phobic about it. So when I'm writing a book I leave messages all over the house for people to know how the story ends, and then someone can finish it for me.

If I'd been in a school play, I'd probably have sneezed and messed everything up.

Messing up lines is always embarrassing for me.

I remember with my first album, I was so scared of messing it up, of blowing the opportunity, that I blew it.

I hate a messy closet. I totally freak out when my closet is messy and I can't find anything.

Keep a meter on your fear. Fear can cripple you.

I never quite know how to fill that anxious, semi-wasted time before a midday flight home.

I have mild social anxiety to an extent where, when I'm talking to a new person, literally the only thing I can think in the back of my head is: 'What do I say when they're done talking?'

I hate the sound of my voice. I can hear it from a mile away - it's nasally. Why do I talk like that? It freaks me out!

I'm one of those fellows so frightened of driving that I go 80 miles an hour - and the more frightened I get, the faster I go.

But even before I was in the military, I was extremely jumpy when asleep.

Like most millennials, I have the bad, anxiety-inducing habit of grabbing my phone in the morning and scrolling through social media for 15, 20 minutes before I'm fully awake.

Although I've said a million times that I'm not a horror writer, I do like horror.

But I could never in a million years get up on a stage, ever. Even thinking about it makes me feel like fainting.

My biggest fear as a fighter is to be knocked out in front of millions of people. But after it actually happened, there's this calmness about you that says everything is OK.

I can cook in front of millions of people on TV, I don't care. But cooking for my own family really freaked me out. If they don't like it, they tell you.

Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

When we did our first record, my mindset was this is all going to be over tomorrow.

At the start of the 21st century, Britain is caught in a confusing riptide of anxiety. Of course racism still exists, but things have improved to a point where many ethnic minority Britons do not experience it as a regular feature in their lives.

When I go to parties, people seem to be enjoying themselves. But when I look beneath the surface, I see so much anxiety and suffering there.

We are afraid of death, we are afraid of separation, and we are afraid of nothingness.