Quotes About Anxiety

I was a grade B housewife, maybe a B minus. But when I got time to write, I would be unable to finish a sentence. I had anxiety attacks. Partly it was a way of personifying the situation because I couldn't breathe. I was surrounded by people and by duties. I was a housewife and the children's mother, and I was judged on how I performed those roles.

Being on the run, having to change the way that you do business, being unable to plan in a safe and secure environment, always looking over your shoulder, knowing that some day somebody's going to knock on your door and it's going to be your last.

I do still get extremely nervous before speeches. My biggest fear is that I'll be standing there in front of hundreds of people and be incapable of talking. I'm afraid that I'll make a complete fool of myself and be unable to go on.

For the Oscars, I had a speech in my hand, and I just knew if I opened the piece of paper, I was going to be unable to read it. So I just thought, 'I'm going to say, as coherently as I can, whatever I can.'

Fame is very heavy. When there are large crowds, I'm unable to handle it.

As a child I was painfully embarrassed by everything, always blushing and unable to make eye contact.

I was very worried about being unattractive because I think I look quite masculine. Sometimes I feel more masculine than feminine and I don't like it.

I felt unbelievably lucky to have the success I did with 'Goon Squad,' and I also felt the pressure of how fleeting that success can be.

I fear for the lives of my daughters. I am uncertain about what kind of future they will face.

Latin Americans hold on tight even to pain and suffering, preferring a certain present to an uncertain future. Some of this is only natural, entirely human. But for us, the fear is paralyzing; it generates not only anxiety but also paralysis.

Fear is the most basic emotion we have. Fear is primal. Fear sells.

Tension, in the long run, is a more dangerous force than any feud known to man.

I realized that the worst thing that could happen to me was about to happen to me.

It was harder for the ones who were waiting, Annemarie knew. Less danger, perhaps, but more fear.

A new age is approaching, and its advent might make us pray to go back to the days of the trenches. Once the Worldwaker goes off, we will never be able to sleep again.

Peace is not the absence of war but the absence of fear.

Peace is not the absence of war—peace is the absence of fear.

I have to get out of this room as soon as possible, or my own thoughts will wage war against me.

The threat of war hung on the air like a thick fog and it blinded him until he could see nothing beyond the haze. Even the stars grew faint.

When fear meets fear nothing good ever happens.

When fear meets fear nothing good every happens.

If you do not trust life to unfold, the mind takes over and it becomes a game of strategy, motivated by anxiety. This mistrust is unfair. Life has given us so much, and yet we do not trust it.

Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.

It is said that our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.