Quotes About Anxiety

Do you sometimes look up from the computer and look around the room and know you are alone, I mean really know it, then feel scared ?

Life is meaningless. Everyone knows this. Look at Fernando Pessoa. He knew the most that life was meaningless. But he was always worrying about things. If life was really meaningless you wouldn't worry about things

Feel certain that I will die of sudden and incurable obesity within the next week

feels like i'm 'seething' with the inability to sleep…

Schemas have distinctive emotional flavors: abandonment triggers anxiety,

Of course I'm anxious now—my schema fears are making me assume I'm going to be abandoned or left out.

Loss of control lies at the core of the vulnerability pattern. The distinctive emotional signature of vulnerability is an exaggerated fear that some catastrophe is about to strike.

She would remind herself that in reality she was safe despite her fears, or that her hyperventilating was only a sign of temporary anxiety, not a sign that she would suffocate.

The renowned seventh-century Zen master Seng-tsan taught that true freedom is being "without anxiety about imperfection.

I recently read in the book My Stroke of Insight by brain scientist Jill Bolte Taylor that the natural life span of an emotion—the average time it takes for it to move through the nervous system and body—is only a minute and a half. After that we need thoughts to keep the emotion rolling. So if we wonder why we lock into painful emotional states like anxiety, depression, or rage, we need look no further than our own endless stream of inner dialogue.

Our enjoyment is tainted by anxiety about keeping what we have and our compulsion to reach out and get more.

Todo nuestro disfrute está enturbiado por la ansiedad por conservar lo que poseemos y por nuestra necesidad compulsiva de ampliarlo.

Fear is the anticipation of future pain. The

Zen master Seng-tsan taught that true freedom is being "without anxiety about imperfection.

Što manje znaš šta si ti, više se plašiš onoga što nisi ti.

Every object that brings us pleasure can also bring us suffering and anxiety. The more we value an object, the more we worry that it will be broken or taken from us. That is the nature of our mind and of our relationship with objects.

We are ignorant of the fundamental nature of the way things exist, and we feel anxiety because of this.

Frightened of my futureless life, scared by my foolish anxieties, unable to see ahead and aiming nowhere, I continued ceaselessly living my ridiculously idiotic life.

It's hard to mark time when your heart is a pinball in your chest.

Ay de nosotros! ¡Hemos llegado a conocer unos tiempos en que hasta la vista de nuestros propios soldados nos causa temor.

I was never afraid of anything in the world except the dentist.

My lords, let us consider just law. Does it bring tranquillity, good order, piety, justice and liberty and prosperity to a people? Does it nourish patriotism and the way of a manly and upright life? Then it is a good law, and deserves our utter obedience. "But if it brings pain, intolerable burdens, injustice, sleepless anxiety and fear and slavery to a people, then it is an evil law passed and upheld by evil men, who hate humanity and wish to subjugate and control it.

De qué tenéis miedo?– pero ellas no contestaron y se limitaron a mirarla furtivamente, y Aspasia comprendió que temían darle un nombre a su terror, no fuera a acudir como ante una llamada.

We all feel inadequate very often. It's only when it gets chronic that it is disturbing to one's emotions and can get out of hand and make you pretty damn miserable.