Quotes About Anxiety

There can be no doubt that the cult of death and the insistence upon portents of the end proceed from surreptitious desire to see it happen, and to put an end to the anxiety and doubt that always threaten the hold of faith.

Here, in their midst, George feels a sort of vertigo. Oh God, what will become of them all? What chance have they? Ought I to yell out to them, right now, here, that it's hopeless?

Sometimes Arthur talked about his childhood. As a boy he was delicate and had never been sent to school. An only son, he lived alone with his widowed mother, whom me adored. Together they studied literature and art; together they visted Paris, Baden-Baden, Rome, moving always in the best society, from Schloss to château, from château to palace, gentle, charming, appreciative; in a state of perpeutal tender anxiety about each other's health.

Christopher Isherwood

It's hard for me, a Jew, to stay in the moment. Without the past, where is the guilt? And without the future, where is the dread? And without guilt and dread, who am I?

All fear comes from trying to see the future, Biff. If you know what is coming, you aren't afraid.

One of them hissed-not the hiss of a cat, a long, steady tone-more like the hiss of air escaping the rubber raft that is all that lies between you and a dark sea full of sharks, the hiss of your life leaking out at the seams.

To be safe is to be afraid.

So safe," Coyote said, "that you can lose it in a day? To be safe is to be afraid. Is that what you want: to be afraid?

There's something out on the wing. Sir I can assure you that--Fuck, there's something out on the wing. Told you.

When you think of ghosts wailing and suffering, you don't think of it as constant and eternal, do you? Bit of wailing around midnight, chain rattling and a cold breeze, grab an ankle on the stairs now and again to really get them shitting themselves, then you're on about your day, aren't you?

All fear comes from trying to see the future, Biff. If you know what is coming, you aren't afraid.

She wasn't afraid, so she didn't resist. All fear comes from trying to see the future, Biff. If you know what is coming, you aren't afraid.

Wenn man erst anfängt, im Dunkeln irgendwelche Erscheinungen anzuschreien, hat man im Grunde schon aufgegeben, oder? Mehr oder weniger sagt man damit doch: »Ich weiß, ich steck hier bis über beide Augenbrauen in der Scheiße und raste gleich aus vor Angst, also würde ich es vorziehen, wenn wir es so schnell und schmerzlos wie möglich hinter uns bringen könnten.

The future will be what it will, and fretting about it will only make your fears more likely to come true.

It is an overactive imagination that turns men into cowards, not a surfeit of fear, as many believe

It is always thus. The monsters of the mind are far worse than those that actually exist. Fear, doubt, and hate have hamstrung more people than beasts ever have.

El miedo, supongo. Hace que los hombres adopten conductas extrañas. Jörmundur

Deshazte de tus preocupaciones y concéntrate solo en la tarea que tienes delante. El futuro será el que tenga que ser, y preocupándote por él solo aumentarás la probabilidad de que tus miedos se hagan realidad.

El futuro será el que tenga que ser, y preocupándote por él solo aumentarás la probabilidad de que tus miedos se hagan realidad.

The soldiers cringed

that you are able to suspend the functioning of your imagination—for it is an overactive imagination that turns men into cowards, not a surfeit of fear, as most believe.

Die Zukunft kann uns nur dann etwas anhaben, wenn wir uns zu große Sorgen machen.

side to side. It does not surprise me, though. Always this happens; whenever Eragon and I part, someone attacks him. It's gotten so it makes my scales itch to let him out of my sight for more than a few hours. He's more than capable of defending himself. True, but our enemies are not without skill either. Impatient, Saphira shifted her stance, raising her wings even higher. Nasuada, I am eager to be gone. Is there anything else I should know? No, said Nasuada. Fly swift and