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Quotes About Anxiety

Worry is the sin we're not afraid to commit.
~ Anonymous
A request not to worry ... is perhaps the least soothing message capable of human utterance.
~ Mignon G. Eberhart
It is the little things that fret and worry us; you can dodge an elephant, but not a fly.
~ Josh Billings
Every faculty and virtue I possess can be used as an instrument with which to worry myself.
~ Mark Rutherford
Worry is most apt to ride you ragged not when you are in action, but when the day's work is done. Your imagination can run riot then ... your mind is like a motor operating without its load.
~ James L. Muresell
"Worry" is a word that I don't allow myself to use.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
Despair is the offspring of fear and impatience.
~ Proverb
I stayed awake all night, anxiously waiting for daylight, so that I could fully return to my new life, to rediscover the happiness I had known as a child, the joy that had stayed alive inside me even through times when being alive itself became a burden. These days I live in three worlds: my dreams, and the experiences of my new life, which trigger memories from the past.
~ Ishmael Beah
He was obsessed with the fear of making a mistake. Sometimes he was convinced it was impossible to do anything else, and that if anyone got anything right it was purely by chance.
~ Ismail Kadare
Ja kažem sebi: Još ve?eras budi hrabar, ne drhti i ne boj se više nego što treba, a ve? sutra možda ne?e nam trebati ni hrabrosti ni utehe.
~ Ivo Andri?
Svak želi više, traži bolje ili strepi od goreg.
~ Ivo Andri?
Bojao sam se i krvi koju sam ?uo kako bije u mom ru?nom zglobu jer me je uvjeravala da živim, a to je bilo isto što i patnja.
~ Ivo Andri?
Strah mijenja oblik i briga ime.
~ Ivo Andri?
Mindfulness meditation encourages us to become more patient and compassionate with ourselves and to cultivate open-mindedness and gentle persistence. These qualities help free us from the gravitational pull of anxiety, stress and unhappiness by reminding us what science has shown: that it's OK to stop treating sadness and other difficulties as problems that need to be solved.
~ J. Mark G. Williams
Do you always drive this way?" "What way?" "As if we're trying to outrun an earthquake.
~ J.D. Robb
And there was nothing in his life he could remember fearing as much as he feared knocking on the bright blue door of that old stone house.
~ J.D. Robb
In time we hate that which we often fear. —William Shakespeare
~ J.D. Robb
The fear of the Time Out, Dallas. It can't be overstated.
~ J.D. Robb
I know what it is to have the one you love, the only one, hurt. There's a war in your belly, and your heart's so heavy it doesn't seem as if your body can hold it. This kind of fear doesn't have a name. You can only wait with it. And let us help.
~ J.D. Robb
The greatest barrier of success is the fear of failure.
~ J.K. Potter
Y deja de pasar así las páginas. ¿Por qué lo manejas con tanta brusquedad? –Porque… Porque si no me doy prisa se abrirá un agujero. –¿Dónde? –Entre las páginas. –Qué tontería. No hay ningún agujero entre las páginas.
~ J.M. Coetzee
Tengo miedo, Simón. Cuando me duermo, ahí están los malos sueños esperándome. Trato de escaparme, pero no puedo porque ya no puedo correr.
~ J.M. Coetzee
Nothing is worse than what we can imagine
~ J.M. Coetzee
As she shuffled back, he glanced down at the tent between his legs. Christ, that goddamn thing in there was huge; he looked like he had another arm in his pants.
~ J.R. Ward