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Quotes About Anxiety

I feel nervous because I revere [Zadie Smith] so much. I don't want to be stupid. If I say something stupid, just interrupt me.
~ George Saunders
I'm worried about losing my hair. I think if I lost my hair, I'd lose a lot of parts. And I don't want to get fat. I'm always worried about that.
~ Rupert Penry-Jones
Children like being a little scared, but they don't want to be disturbed.
~ Salman Rushdie
You can't mess up. If you do, everyone wants to kill you.
~ Sherry Stringfield
I've often met people who are terrified, you know, in a straight jacket of their own making because they'd rather do anything that fail. They don't want to try for fear of failing.
~ J. K. Rowling
Mistakes I've made in the past make me afraid to try new things in the future. I want to be perfect.
~ James Altucher
I'm a really anxious person, so I tend not to keep secrets. I tend not to even want to hear them. It's too nerve-wracking for me to try and keep things from people.
~ James Scott
Turns out, that's how it is with weddings. You just keep getting in deeper and deeper until you want to throw up.
~ Janet Evanovich
I'm going to be mentally ill in fifteen years, and that's why my husband doesn't want to be around me.
~ Jay Asher
It's something I always tell myself: 'You need to calm the f--k down. You don't want to constantly be a GIF.
~ Jennifer Lawrence
It started when I woke up, all I wanted to do is jump out of the window. I didn't want to eat anymore, because I was afraid that I might poison myself somehow.
~ Jonathan Davis
Publicity gets more than a little tiring. You want it, you need it, you crave it, and you're scared as hell when it stops.
~ Joseph Barbera
I'm about to graduate senior year and I don't know what I'm going to do. I don't want to lose the momentum with what I'm doing now as an actress.
~ Kaitlyn Dever
My first Top of the Pops I didn't want to do. I was terrified. I'd never done television before. Seeing the video afterwards was like watching myself die.
~ Kate Bush
I'm terrified of therapy because I don't want it to mess with my creativity.
~ Lady Gaga
Worrying seems like a fairly natural state of being for a parent, so feel free to worry as much as you want.
~ Mallory Ortberg
I am prone to despair. We are all born with a particular personality. I get afraid and then I don't want to leave the house.
~ Marian Keyes
I'm not scared of growing old, I'm just scared of not achieving everything that I want to do.
~ Melanie Laurent
For me, it was a lot of pressure to make another movie after 'Inglourious Basterds' because I didn't want to do something wrong. I wanted to have a beautiful project for another American movie.
~ Melanie Laurent
Becoming a father has definitely heightened my discomfort with uncertainty. I want to be able to say, I know what will happen, when, why. But most of the time, we just don't know.
~ Michael Adam Hamilton
The American media wants to pump you full of fear.
~ Michael Moore
I am afraid to piss in the morning 'cause I don't want to waste any of my excellence
~ Miguel Torres
The people who have the power want you scared. They want you walking around paralyzed by the notion that you could die at any moment.
~ Mira Grant
I'll think about you everyday. Part of me is scared that there'll come a time when you don't feel the same way, that you'll somehow forget about what we shared, so this is what I want to do forever.
~ Nicholas Sparks