Quotes About Anxiety

Indeed, lack of self-control may be at the root of all emotional disorders, so named because the person is controlled by anxiety and depression rather than vice versa. Everyone experiences negative emotions; what determines whether they escalate to full-blown disorders may simply be whether the person has the ability to circumscribe them.

Don't be afraid, be terrified

There is not enough blood in her veins to keep her heart from skipping.

Alone in my room, I don't feel alone. It's as if I have two shadows instead of one, and this second shadow doesn't conform to my movements. It follows me, it gives the impression it will never leave me, but it does what it wants. I worry that in time I will do what it wants.

Staring down at my trembling hands, I wonder many things.

Suddenly I was afraid. Afraid of nothing, that most awful of fears.

Danger made life interesting, but anxiety gets tiring after a while.

Butch's thoughts didn't make his feelings of fear and terror disappear, but they did keep his emotions from hijacking his behavior.

Sometimes you can lock the doors and close the blinds, but the monsters are still there inside your house, sleeping and breathing and just waiting to wake up and terrorize you all over again.

What? I ask. I don't get anything about this day. Everything is just off. Are you sure? Am I sure where I live? Yeah. Steeple Drive. Your cabin is on this road? Is it just me, or is everything I'm saying slightly freaking you out?

People who fear greatly can sometimes substitute themselves for the thing they fear

It is possible that the question of a conflict between races may come up in the future, as did that between freedom and slavery before. The condition of the colored man within our borders may become a source of anxiety, to say the least. But he was brought to our shores by compulsion, and he now should be considered as having as good a right to remain here as any other class of our citizens.

My son accompanied me throughout the campaign and siege, and caused no anxiety either to me or to his mother, who was at home. He looked out for himself and was in every battle of the campaign. His age, then not quite thirteen, enabled him to take in all he saw, and to retain a recollection of it that would not be possible in more mature years.

To read fiction means to play a game by which we give sense to the immensity of things that happened, are happening, or will happen in the actual world. By reading narrative, we escape the anxiety that attacks us when we try to say something true about the world. This is the consoling function of narrative — the reason people tell stories, and have told stories from the beginning of time.

Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.

We like lists because we don't want to die.

By reading narrative, we escape the anxiety that attacks us when we try to say something about the world.

By reading narrative, we escape the anxiety that attacks us when we try to say something true about the world. This is the consoling function of narrative — the reason people tell stories, and have told stories from the beginning of time.

We lists because we don't want to die.

Rápido —volvió a incitarme Guillermo—, si no se comerá todo el Aristóteles! —¡Y morirá! —grité angustiado mientras corría a su encuentro y juntos nos poníamos a buscar. —¡No me importa que muera, el maldito! —gritaba Guillermo clavando los ojos en la oscuridad que nos rodeaba y moviéndose de un lado para otro.

If you fail to have an erection the first time, you're impotent for the rest of your life.

Such were the cruel terms upon which their life was possible, that they might never have nor expect a single instant's respite from worry, a single instant in which they were not haunted by the thought of money.

But I thought: That is the sound of war. That sound of a steady, grinding machine made me think of guns; and then I thought of the crazed and half-starved village people against whom the guns were going to be used, people whose rags were already the colour of ashes. This was the anxiety of a moment of wakefulness; I fell asleep again. When

He was, after all, like other high officials. I wondered why I thought he would be different. These men, who depended on the President's favour for everything, were bundles of nerves. The great power they excercised went with a constant fear of being destroyed.