Quotes About Anxiety

It takes over—fear, I mean. No matter how hard you try to fight it, it takes over, crushing the life out of you.

Winston Churchill once described worry as a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind that, if encouraged, cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.

While she was glad that these bouts of anxiety no longer overwhelmed her, it also meant she was getting comfortable here, and that scared her. Because being comfortable meant she might lower her guard, and she could never let that happen.

Not wanting to lose someone has its roots in fear.

That's what parenting is all about. Doing the best you can while being terrified of screwing up. Kids

daddies ain't worth much if they don't worry just a little.

There is something terrible in the moments after waking up, when the subconscious knows that something terrible has happened but before all the memories flash back in their entirety

My heart was always in my mouth when I started on a new routine.

Sometimes when you open your mouth you show what you're afraid of more than anything.

The questions that loom can be intimidating. 'What kind of moves is she gonna make? What is she gonna do?' There is this pressure that you're supposed to keep impressing.

The thing I'm scared of most is not fulfilling my work. There's so much anxiety around trying to get a movie made that you don't really get to be afraid of anything else.

It's easy for me to write a horror movie about real stuff because my mind is always going there anyway.

In most multiple composer situations, you find it because someone got nervous about the music and insisted that somebody else come in and help.

I can deal with having a terrible night on stage in front a bunch of Glaswegians but not a bunch of Glaswegians and my mum and dad.

I did musicals. It's funny, because I can hide behind a character and a voice, but when I have to bring myself and my own voice to it, it's very nerve-wracking.

My number one elixir for anxiety? Comfort food.

To say that my anxiety is reducible to the ions in my amygdala is as limiting as saying that my personality or my soul is reducible to the molecules that make up my brain cells or to the genes that underwrote them.

Like any mum, I fear some mysterious illness befalling my children.

I'm a nail biter and have been my whole life.

I bite my nails. I've been chewing on them for years. As long as you don't chew through flesh it's all right.

I don't know very many people in the art world, only socialise with the few I like, and have little time to gnaw my nails with anxiety about any criticism I hear about.

Writers divide into those who write biting their nails and those who don't. Some writers write licking their finger.

It would be naive if I said that I don't fear failure.

I'm still traumatized that I'm going to be on a big screen in a white bikini and naked so who knows!