Quotes About Anxiety

The brave man, the real hero, quakes with terror, sweats, feels his very bowels betray him, and in spite of this moves forward to do the act he dreads. And yet I do not think

Going to school, it felt like you were in a meat grinder. It chews you up and pours out this mess that can't function.

Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is.

May the Lord God bless you and keep you from the torment of fear and anxiety. May He cause His face to shine upon you with power, love and a sound mind and give you grace to cast out fear through perfect love. May He lift up His countenance upon you with freedom as you tell Him every detail of your need in earnest, thankful prayer, and give you the peace that surpasses all understanding, as He keeps your heart and mind safe through Jesus Christ.[4]

If you panic...you die.

If things happen all the time you are never nervous. It is when they are not happening that you are nervous.

Nothing is really so very frightening when everything is so very dangerous

Every time I think I have something under control, it changes and I don't have it under control. I think it takes several years to get there. Jade is 19 months old, so right now I'm on alert all the time. And as a mom I think you're constantly worrying about things.

His breath was the only sound, and in that darkness it seemed too loud. Was he the only one breathing? He stood and listened hard. For days he had felt as if something was pacing along just behind him, some shy creature following his scent.

Lo que triunfa no es tanto la nostalgia del pasado cuanto la inquietud por la precariedad del futuro.

Self-consciousness comes from focusing your attention inwards, on to yourself, so that you become painfully aware of what is happening to you. At its worst, self-consciousness dominates your attention and makes it difficult to think of anything else but your inner experience – and this can become totally paralyzing.

November makes me anxious. This year's holidays are approaching with a particularly lean and nervous look, like coyotes dressed as reindeer and ready for a tussle. Nothing feels right.

I am proud because I understand that there are times when self-preservation is more important than sentiment, especially when one is a mother, and I could not afford to be perpetually devoured from the inside out, surrendering my hours and days and weeks and months to this turbulent anxiety

The week before the marathon, sleep well. If normally you "get by" with five hours but require seven, make sure you get seven every night. The sleep you get the week leading up to the marathon is more important than the night before. The night before, you probably won't sleep well due to anxiety, excitement and anticipation.

Just like the body responds with sore muscles when we add mileage, the initial discomfort felt when we listen to the Voice Inside reflects growth. The good news: anxiety initially triggered by listening to our inner dialogue is short-term vs. the unnamed, interminable dread that piggybacks suppression. Even better, we can manage it with self-talk, deep breathing (inherent to running), the Tribe and social support.

But I love being scared. I think you're brave only when you do things that scare you. I've always used fear as a motivator. I'm not sure why.

Per me, non meno che per lei, più del presente contava il passato, più del possesso il ricordarsene. Di fronte alla memoria, ogni possesso non può apparire che delusivo, banale, insufficiente...Come mi capiva! La mia ansia che il presente diventasse "subito" passato perché potessi amarlo e vagheggiarlo a mio agio era anche sua, tale e quale. Era il "nostro" vizio, questo: d'andare avanti con le teste sempre voltate all'indietro.

estratagema que puede ser aplicada a todos los tipos de miedo: impulsar la propia mente a alimentar voluntariamente las fantasías espantosas provoca su anulación. De ahí que esta técnica sea la base de las formas más eficaces de terapia del miedo patológico y de las compulsiones obsesivas (Nardone 2002a, 2005, 2008).

El problema es que se puede diagnosticar un ataque de pánico muy a la ligera, con el consiguiente riesgo de llamar pánico a una crisis histérica, o a la ansiedad generalizada, o a una fase de angustia profunda o, peor aún, a una verdadera patología orgánica, con consecuencias a veces realmente funestas.

The great thought, the great concern, the great anxiety of men is to restrict, as much as possible, the limits of their own responsibility.

And I read hundreds and thousands of books, day and night, always awake and always eager to seek health. But in no book I found what I was looking for. Then, shut up in my parents' house, I thought and suffered for hundreds and thousands of hours, always awake and always mindful of the tremendous anxiety of health. But I still have not found what I was looking for.

You can't live in dread of something for long without beginning to crave it.

En nuestra vida cotidiana hay rastros que no podemos explicar y acaso sean totalmente nimios. Sin embargo, su representación mediante un dispositivo de localización... les confiere significado, lo que al parecer exige dar una cantidad tremenda de justificaciones. Esto genera ansiedades, sobre todo en las relaciones íntimas, en las que las personas quizá sientan una mayor presión para explicar cosas que simplemente no son capaces de explicar.

Alexei and Anastasia are barely alive. The others are dead