Quotes About Anxiety

the daily papers were beginning to scream about how terrible it would be if you didn't get your Christmas shopping done early. It would be terrible anyway; it always is. It

Oh hell and fireflies," I said and went out to the kitchen and gobbled a quick drink, before we started. It didn't do me any good. It just made me want to climb up the wall and gnaw my way across the ceiling.

The air-conditioned room was full of cold, but Lipshultz was sweating.

He was talking too much. People with unstable nerves are like that. One moment monosyllables, next moment a flood.

Clammy hands and the people who own them make me sick.

Fear is the little death, daughter. It kills in tiny pieces.

Men love their fears. That is why they hold on to them so tightly.

Pug nodded. 'What do you fear the most?' Nicholas thought a long moment. 'Of not being as good as I should be.

A manilla envelope came through the mail slot a few weeks later. I had a little queasiness about meeting that teenager directly, and so I waited several years to open it.

Despair is a form of certainty, certainty that the future will be a lot like the present or will decline from it;

Connor: [about Sidda and Connor's wedding] Vivi, it's taken years to nail down a date. She's always said, What's the rush, when things are so good? I don't know what the hell she's so afraid of - it's like she's always waiting for the bottom to drop out. Vivi: You know why she thinks that, don't ya, honey? Because it did. It always did.

The Germans are about to reach Stalingrad, and the gas chambers are heating up, but the Ya-Yas are still in high school, and the life of the porch still surrounds them. They are lazy together. This is comfort. This is joy. Just look at these four. Not one wears a watch. This porch time is not planned. Not penciled into a DayRunner . . .I want to lay up like that, to float unstructured, without ambition or anxiety. I want to inhabit my life like a porch.

thinking: I don't want my little girl to come out blind or gouged up. I'm not cheap, I'm scared. It's the story of my life: not stingy, just a goddamn coward.

I would not sing you to sleep. I would press my lips to your ear and hope the terror in my heart stirs you.

Mais ces soucis étaient pour demain, pour tout à l'heure. Vivre les malheurs d'avance, c'est les subir deux fois. Le moment présent était un moment de joie, il ne fallait pas l'empoisonner.

Fear never keeps anyone safe

There's nothing wrong with you, it's just fear.

The feeling you are afraid to feel is running your life

When you're motivated by fear, you will never feel satisfied

But sometimes waiting can be murder…

Lou closed the door behind him, then banged her head against the cool metal surface. "Stupid, stupid, stupid," she chanted to herself. Oh well, she'd just have to suck it up and call her father. Dread coursed through her at the thought. He'd have to deal with the details—Edwina particularly. Lou worried her lip.

Cuántos años y qué luchas internas habían exigido el perfeccionamiento de ese tipo de gestos de fingido desasosiego?

Tenemos una necesidad morbosa de seguridad

Umbram suam metuit.