Quotes About Anxiety

Courage doesn't mean you aren't scared.

This is going to be a really long couple of months if we worry about ever little twinge. You just tried to throw up your liver. I did not. So you were working on your pancreas?

Taking a couple of deep breaths, he knew he had to choose his words carefully—in spite of the fact that his adrenal gland had opened up full-bore and was pumping enough OMG into his system that he was drowning in terror.

It felt odd to realize she was frightened more by what he might know, and not of what he might be.

The Brother was staring straight ahead and not blinking. "Have we stopped moving?" he said hoarsely.

You scare the shit out of me, female." He

But then, lately panic went with everything, didn't it? The new black.

Very nice. Perfect background for an anxiety attack, really. But then, lately panic went with everything, didn't it? The new black.

For him, life was a coin that had disaster on one side and waiting for disaster on the other.

To have nothing and throw yourself on the mercy of others was a strange kind of terror.

Do you have any idea how many detectives get MRIs because they have persistent headaches and are convinced they have a brain tumor? But it's never that. And there's nothing wrong with my mind, is there.

At first I thought it was a fear of failure. Now I think you're afraid to succeed.

I'm scared Gavin. What if I can't do this?

You're afraid of me.

I can't help it. You scare me.

Offer them what they secretly want and they of course immediately become panic-stricken.

But they need to worry and betray time with urgencies false and otherwise, purely anxious and whiny, their souls really won't be at peace unless they can latch to an established and proven worry and having once found it they assume facial expressions to fit and go with it, which is, you see, unhappiness, and all the time it all flies by them and they know it and that too worries them no end.

O Rosey, why don't you stay just home and eat chocolate bars and read Boswell all this society-izing will bring you nothing but lines of anxiety on your face -- and a sociable smile ain't nothing but teeth

Surveillant anxiety is always a conjoined twin: The anxiety of those surveilled is deeply connected to the anxiety of the surveillers. But the anxiety of the surveillers is generally hard to see; it's hidden in classified documents and delivered in highly coded languages in front of Senate committees.

Also there is a twist to the story as I'm being haunted and driven crazy, attacked and so on. All I seem to do is run and scream and cry in every scene.

I'm annoying to be around because I keep twitching.

Twitter freaks me out. You have followers? It feels so obsessive and proprietary.

I keep track of my blog stats, Facebook subs, my Amazon rank, Twitter followers, Facebook likes per posts, my chess ranking. I get stressed when they all don't go up.

I don't have Facebook or Twitter accounts yet. Being a compulsive storyteller, I always make up for myself discouraging stories about how such accounts will get me into embarrassing and time-consuming situations.