Quotes About Anxiety

It had been written because he was afraid, afraid of things dark, strange, dangerous, difficult, and deep.

It had not really been written to make money—if only it had been! It had been written because he was afraid, afraid of things dark, strange, dangerous, difficult, and deep.

Every effort made by the child's elders to prepare him for a fate from which they cannot protect him causes him secretly, in terror, to begin to await, without knowing that he is doing so, his mysterious and inexorable punishment. He must be "good" not only in order to please his parents and not only to avoid being punished by them; behind their authority stands another, nameless and

The administration, increasingly, can rule only by fear: the fears of the people who elected them, and the fear that the administration can inspire.

I returned here because I was afraid to

Fear and I played peek-a-boo - it always seemed to grab my balls and twist just when it felt like something inside me could banish all the bullshit forever.

Twenty-nine years old and on her third masters degree because she's afraid to go out and meet the world. Sad, isn't it?" Mal sighed. "Tragic.

I was afraid of all girls, most boys and selected male and female adults. My fear derived from my apocalyptic fantasy apparatus. I knew that all things went chaotically bad. My empirical training in chaos was unassailably valid.

I had to talk to people. All people scared me.

The rye made him sweat; the beer gave him goose bumps. The combination tamped down his nerves.

She made me feel better than I have ever felt, better than I imagined I could feel, and it scared me, it scared me to the point of paralysis.

Fear, he said, ran all of our lives. Fear, he said, after religion, was the most destructive force in the world.

Why are you scared, John?' 'Because I know I'm not better.' 'Why do you think that?' 'Because I know it in my heart.

By any objective measure, the modern business of "psychopharmacology"—the use of drugs to treat everything from anxiety and insomnia to schizophrenia itself—has to be judged a failure. Few patients, if any, are cured. The most violent manifestations of mental illness can be controlled, but with what long-term consequences, no one knows.

Uncertainty always creates doubt, and doubt creates fear.

I think, along with the great joy and excitement of having a child, it seems to be that the common themes are also a lot of doubt and fear and uncertainty about being a parent - and about how you might not live up to those expectations.

The real effect of the WTC calamity has been depressed spirits, anxiety, and uncertainty among publishers, and of course those emotions are not restricted to publishers.

The fear of failing... not quite the fear of failing, but the uncertainty of whether you are going to perform or not, is there every single game I have played in my life. It will always be there.

The consumer is going through a period around the world of uncertainty - whether geopolitical uncertainty, economic uncertainty - and that makes them a little nervous as well.

Uncertainty's not good for anybody.

Obama's economic policies obviously have not worked, and have left the American market place with enormous uncertainty and anxiety.

The uncertainty of parenting can bring up feelings in us that range from frustration to terror.

Post-military service can be a period of anxiety and uncertainty. So many men and women return and ask themselves: what now? The Labor Department is here to help answer that question with an array of programs designed to clear pathways into the middle class.

No one likes uncertainty.