Quotes About Anxiety

I discovered I scream the same way whether I'm about to be devoured by a Great White or if a piece of seaweed touches my foot.

When you are anxious because of your to-do list take comfort in your have-done list.

Fear of success can be as paralyzing as fear of failure.

What if it isn't good enough? What if this is the book that will make everyone hate me?

be scared. She backed off, though, the thoughts too precipitous.

After thirty minutes, he began to wonder if Annie had simply forgotten about him, returned to the house after the movie, and got drunk on vodka tonics. "Come get me," Buster whispered, hoping to create a psychic link to his sister.

She said, 'I'm so afraid.' And I said, 'why?,' and she said, 'Because I'm so profoundly happy, Dr. Rasul. Happiness like this is frightening.' I asked her why and she said, 'They only let you be this happy if they're preparing to take something from you.

Whoever allows the world to become his biggest concern has nothing to do with Allah, and Allah will instil four qualities into his heart: anxiety which will never leave him, business which he will never be free from; poverty which he will never rid himself of, and hope which he will never fulfil. (Tabarani.) Additionally,

There is no wine in the world as heady as applause; and it has the same effect. It temporarily subdues anxiety and restores confidence.

I've known the taste of fear from birth. It was in my mother's milk.

Twin threads ran through her: fear and excitement.

If you're at all anxious, the city acts out your anxiety for you, leaving you feeling strangely peaceful.

But no place gives you everything. I'm equally mistrustful of the energy bursts New York gives you, which fragment and exhaust you. Living there gives you a phony sense of self-importance and confidence. If you're at all anxious, the city acts out your anxiety for you, leaving you feeling strangely peaceful.

Trying to write on a deadline is like trying to have an orgasm with a gun to your head.

What are you?" I rasped. It smiled. "Whatever scares you.

Anxiety can only happen when our hope is genuinely in the wrong thing, not in Jesus.

People who have lost much are always worried about losing more. So they guard their hearts. It is not that she does not feel the happiness; she only wishes to hide it so as not to be hurt should she lose something more.

people with a diagnosis of generalised anxiety disorder tend to have a larger amygdala, which is linked to paying greater attention to threatening or fearful stimuli.

It was nearly time for Ruth's examinations.

Somehow Christmas was making me feel jumpy inside. All this talk about being together and being happy and celebrating - it felt threatening. Like I shouldn't be part of it. Like I wasn't allowed. And Susan wanted me to be happy, which was scarier still.

People do incredibly stupid things when they are frightened

That which is least known,is the most feared

Doesn't it make you feel safe to know you have enough to read? If I didn't always have a book waiting, I'd panic.

The minute you begin to have doubts, the floor under your feet starts to shake.