Quotes About Anxiety

Suppose she never got into art school, suppose she was not a painter after all? Suppose the talents which others had persuaded her she possessed were to abandon her overnight, or turn out to have been unreal all the time? Suppose she had to take a typing course or live with a word processor? I would die, she thought, I would kill myself or make myself die of grief. Already there was one great deep grief in her life.

The dread enactment of the dream had turned into a waking horror.

He thought about the future and it was a vibrating darkness. He felt fear.

Henry's joy left him abruptly and he began anxiously to think about himself.

There are people who occasion in one, as it seems automatically, obsessive egoistic anxiety and preoccupying resentment. When confronted with such people one should if possible run: or else deaden the mind to them. (Or behave in some 'saintly' manner not here relevant.)

On this diet of expectation, he had fairly frenzied himself by the time he arrived.

Louise thought, what will happen to them — perhaps just this is the beginning of some awful end.

Spud has two expressions: totally-scoobied-as-to-what-the-fuck's-going-on and the constantly-on-the-verge-of-tears look he is currently deploying. Assailed with self pity and self loathing, regarding his folly in sitting next to Begbie, he glances around. - Aye... it's bad, like say, he concedes, wondering how he can manoeuvre into another seat.

Paranoia hit him. Waves of fear shuddered through his body. The stakes were high, the highest ever.

I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.

Night will always be a time of fear and insecurity, and the heart will sink with the sun.

Subjective matter of opinion, Gaal. If you're born in a cubicle and grow up in a corridor, and work in a cell, and vacation in a crowded sun-room, then coming up into the open with nothing but sky over you might just give you a nervous breakdown.

Se você tivesse nascido numa cela e crescido num corredor, trabalhando num cubículo, com férias numa varanda repleta de gente, ao sair para o ar livre, sem nada além do céu sobre si, talvez lhe desse um ataque de nervos.

If you're born in a cubicle and grow up in a corridor, and work in a cell, and vacation in a crowded sun-room, then coming up into the open with nothing but sky over you might just give you a nervous breakdown.

How did you get on?" he asked slowly, as though gripping each word with his teeth very carefully to prevent it from trembling before letting it out.

Remember that all the others are more afraid than you

There is no worse suffering than to love with fear

I am frightened. I have known fear before, but there was always an escape; even during the terror of the military coup there was the salvation of exile. Now I am in a blind alley with all doors closed to hope, and I don't know how to handle so much fear.

because people who had anxiously waited fifty years to be in power would not relinquish it because there was a chicken shortage.

Empezó a ahogarse de miedo y claustrofobia, como le ocurría en la infancia, cuando se escondía en su improvisada carpa para escapar de los inmensos peligros del mundo, de la contundente presencia de los humanos, de los olores opresivos y los sonidos atronadores.

lo peor es tenerle miedo al miedo...

vaciló, porque con los nervios se le

Por muy hondo que Brunswick respirara y por muy intensamente que meditara, seguía siendo un nudo de nervios.

De vez en cuando lo atrapaba una ansiedad injustificada; para eso contaba con sus pastillas verdes. En esas ocasiones sentía que iba cayendo de manera irremisible en la oscuridad helada del fondo del mar y no había alguien cerca para tenderle una mano y jalarlo a la superficie.