Quotes About Anxiety

The party in Alobar's head, which agitation and anxiety were throwing, now was crashed by a notion: existence can be rearranged.

He was as nervous as a praying mantis at an atheists' picnic...

Try not to worry... take each day just one anxiety attack at a time.

Her heart kicked and an itchy burning in her throat made her swallow all her saliva away. She didn't know which way to go.

It was not death or dying that frightened him, but the unexpectedness of both.

More awful than the fear of danger was the fear of looking foolish—of being excited when others were laid back—of being somehow manipulated

Scary things not always outside. Most scary things is inside.

His business was dread. People came to him in dread, whispered in dread, wept and pleaded in dread. And dread was what he counseled.

It wasn't death, or dying, that frightened him but the unexpectedness of both.

She slept in the bed with us. Frieda on the outside because she is brave—it never occurs to her that if in her sleep her hand hangs over the edge of the bed "something" will crawl out from under it and bite her fingers off. I sleep near the wall because that thought has occurred to me. Pecola, therefore, had to sleep in the middle.

Something was scratching on the pane. Again.

Anna clung to him while he explained that the scorpion's tail was up because it was just as scared of her as she was of it. In Detroit, watching baby-faced police handling guns, she remembered the scorpion's rigid tail.

Craignez les anxieux, le jour où ils n'auront plus peur, ils seront les maîtres du monde.

La peur du lendemain est une plaisanterie comparée a celle de la veille. Et le destin n'est rien qu'un peu de passé en retard.

The Greek word translated "peace" in the Scripture is eirene. This word is equivalent to the Hebrew word shalom. Essentially, eirene embodies completeness, wholeness, and an inner resting of the soul that does not fluctuate based on outside influences. A person who is at peace is someone who is stable, calm, orderly, and at rest within. The opposite of peace, of course, is inner chaos, anxiety, and worry. This

Every day I have to make a decision to choose faith over fear, faith over anxiety, faith over anger and doubt.

If social democracy has a future, it will be as a social democracy of fear.

We have entered an age of insecurity—economic insecurity, physical insecurity, political insecurity.

Insecurity breeds fear. And fear—fear of change, fear of

It took me a couple of years to realize that ghosts can't hurt you. All they can really do to people is scare them.

I'm not saying I look cool, but every single time I go onstage, it is a fail if I don't feel like I'm going to pass out at least twice.

I'm not a public speaker. I don't even like making toasts. It hits me in a way I can't really explain. I've literally sat with a therapist to try to figure out what that is, because I'm such a public persona.

Worry is a mean-faced dwarf who beats on your heart like a kettledrum.

I think the problem is that people spend so much time worrying about what might happen, what might go wrong, that they completely lose sight of the present.