Quotes About Anxiety

It wouldn't hurt you to be afraid, you know.

As far as Leni could tell, adults were edgy in general, and no wonder.

On the floor by each child's desk was the obligatory gas mask. Children now carried them everywhere.

This is what they have done to us. We are afraid of our own shadows." She

Tonight, later, she would write about her constant fear, how it strangled her all the time and the constant effort it took not to show it to her children.

I've been afraid since the moment they laid her in my arms. Every time she goes to school or to a friend's house or out on a date, I'm afraid. I'm afraid of what the world will do to my beautiful baby girl, afraid of what I will do to her. It never goes away, ever. You just live with it and love her and be there for her.

fighting the tidal wave of panic.

The worst can always be true

upset. Perhaps it is because you have not been sleeping

All anyone could talk about was the gloomy future and the shocking present.

like a kid in a time-out, looking terrified. Crystal's

FEAR, LENI LEARNED, was not the small, dark closet she'd always imagined: walls pressed in close, a ceiling you bumped your head on, a floor cold to the touch. No. Fear was a mansion, one room after another, connected by endless hallways.

I'm afraid," she said. "Of course you are. You're a mother. Fear is the job description.

I'm afraid," I say, surprising myself with the admission. I can't remember admitting such a thing in years, although it has often been true. Four

Of course. Fear is smart until…" He headed for the door, paused as he reached for the knob. "Until what?" He looked back at her. "Until you realize you're afraid of the wrong thing.

Nervous people make poor listeners.

As one of those scholars recently summarized the corpus of studies and experiments, the more that change "makes people anxious about the world and their place in it" and causes "major disruptions and uncertainties in their lives," then "the more they longed nostalgically…for the comparative safety and security of a perceived past.

Just because you're paranoid, does not mean they're not out to get you.

i have a daughter who reminds me too much of what i used to be, full of love and joy, kissing every person she meets because everyone is good and will do her no harm. and that terrifies me to the point where i can barely function.

It turned out the international language wasn't love—it was fear.

You have every cause for anxiety. We are on the threshold of a more searching, more honest, more open society.

He looked tired, exhausted even, but it was as if this were the specific thing that had exhausted him, not ordinary everyday matters but one single all-consuming care; it was obviously a fatigue born out of decades of vigilance, exhaustion owing to the knowledge that any moment he might be killed by that immeasurable weight of fat.

every human culture is created by fear

The threat of violence can be almost as stressful as actually suffering or witnessing violence.