Quotes About Anxiety

Cam knows this is not going to be a good day the moment he sees the chain saw.

To be completely helpless in the face of life?powerless to do a single thing?that's what I'd always feared more than anything. It was like I'd been keeping all the edges of my life neat and clean, pretending the neatness was all that mattered, pretending life could somehow be controlled.

What does she fear in idleness?

I smell fear, he said with a quiet intensity. But not nearly enough.

He was afraid, but fear meant he was still alive.

You want to be left alone, but you're afraid to be left alone, but you're afraid to not be left alone.

Do I get paid, too?' 'Yes,' he said without hesitation. This scared me, because Crawley gave money like bulls gave milk: not at all, and you get gored for asking. If he had already decided this was a paying job, it must be horrible beyond words.

There is nothing to fear but fear itself, the captain announces from the helm, and the occasional man-eating monster.

I am in turmoil. The world is vast and the cosmos more so, yet it is not the things outside of me that leave me so uneasy; it is the things within me.

My own head had become a treacherous place.

Rowan was nervous, he just didn't want to admit it. He knew admitting it would make Citra more worried, which would make him more worried.

I'm scared," he says. "I know," says the nurse. "I want you all to go to Hell." "That's natural.

The terror of the unknown was just as awful, and just as real, regardless of whether or not there was truly something to fear. -Scythe Goddard

they thought I had guts they were wrong I was only frightened of more important things

New Year's Eve always terrifies me.

I didn't like parties.I didn't know how to dance and people frightened me, especially people at parties. They attempted to be sexy and gay and witty and although they hoped they were good at it, they weren 't. They were bad at it. Their trying so hard only made it worse.

Some nights I knew that if I slept I would die.

I got up and walked back to my roominghouse. The moonlight was bright. My footsteps echoed in the empty street and it sounded as if somebody was following me, I looked around. I was mistaken. I was quite alone.

I am too sick to lay down the sidewalks frighten me the whole damned city frightens me, what I will become what I have become frightens me.

terror finally becomes almost bearable but never quite terror creeps like a cat crawls like a cat across my mind

Why can't you be decent to people? she asked. Fear, I said.

I didn't like anything. Maybe I was afraid. That was it - I was afraid. I wanted to sit alone in a room with the shades down. I feasted upon that. I was a crank. I was a lunatic.

Then came the Christmas party. That was December 24th. There were to be drinks, food, music, dancing. I didn't like parties. I didn't know how to dance and people frightened me, especially people at parties. They attempted to be sexy and gay and witty and although they hoped they were good at it, they weren't. They were bad at it. Their trying so hard only made it worse.

It got so bad that Al thought maybe it was him so he went to a shrink and asked and the shrink said, you're one of the sanest men I've ever met. poor Al. that made him feel worse than ever.