Quotes About Anxiety

I go through insanity before a show. It's not really a process but it's like absolute mortal fear.

Disgust for the female body is always tinged with anxiety, since the body symbolizes mortality.

Mortality applies to every aspect of life. The fear of death is the driving fear of life.

Bedtime is when I get most anxious because I have time to contemplate. I'm also more likely to question my mortality and catastrophise if I've seen or heard something upsetting about somebody.

I get an especially acute case of agita at the thought of a mortar and pestle.

The dogs with the loudest bark are the ones that are most afraid.

Most bad behavior comes from insecurity.

Fear, to me, is the most powerful feeling there is - fear.

I wish I had a little more joy of cooking - because mostly I have anxiety of cooking. I'm so proud when things come out well.

It is not the thing you fear that you must deal with: it is the mother of the thing you fear.

I worry about getting work, and then when I get it, I worry about doing it well. I don't want to just go through the motions and give people stuff. This stuff is really important to me.

People motivated by fear do not act well.

In the beginning, fear was the dominant motivating force.

As far as I can tell, most actors' main motivation is self-doubt and neuroses.

My motivation for being a good drummer was born out of fear, which, in a way, seems so antithetical to what art should be.

I'm not the biggest motorcycle fan - they're cool and a lot of fun, but they're scary as well!

I'm afraid of everything. Fear of being alone, fear of being hurt, fear of being made a fool of, fear of failure... Still, I think all my fears bleed from one big one...

Neuroscientific studies suggest that the brain responds in much the same anxious way to facts that threaten our preconceptions as it does to wild animals that threaten our lives.

the number-one cause of an anxious heart is unresolved disappointment in others.

Everyone was doomsdaying today. *

They were afraid of dieing, but they were even more afraid to show it.

With a hangover and with fear, it is difficult to put a helmet on your head.

There is always the threat of tomorrow's treachery, or next year's treachery, or the treachery implicit in all the tomorrows beyond that.

In some respects, though not many, the waiting was worse than the tunnel itself. Imagination was a killer.