Quotes About Anxiety

I will be honest, I've had a couple of restless nights thinking, I cannot go and look stupid!'

From nine years old, I lived with fear. I saw our neighbours disappearing. I was scared that I would come home from school and my parents would not be there.

I always know I'm going to lose my job. It's either going to be canceled next week or next year or nine years from now, but I always know my job is going to go.

I am quite comfortable doing a fashion shoot in a bikini. It's no big deal. But on the film's set, with a hundred people milling around, I got nervous.

I can't handle rollercoasters. I have no control of it. It gets to me.

I can't imagine living my life with no fear for my safety.

I have bizarre anxiety about being in a city - I have no idea who I am or where I am.

Right now, I have no idea what I will write or if I will write again.

I used to go home at night and just shake, because I had no idea that's what acting was gonna be.

As far as the anxiety, I have no idea about it. I don't feel like I have any nervousness out there. I'm just a guy who really cares about being competitive and that's the bottom line.

I have an irrational fear that something bad is going to happen to me when I'm drinking out of a water fountain. I have no idea why.

Especially those first few years of my comic book career, I had no idea what was going to happen the next day.

There is no point making ourselves nervous before a match.

There's no point in playing with pressure.

I have no problems with failures, I'm afraid of failing within myself. At times when I know I did something wrong, I don't sleep that night. I'm scared of facing myself.

Worrying, after all, had its roots in disapproval—

Their phobia was a fear of America and the West and modernity.

It's the way I walk through the world, carrying that fear, that the beloved will go, will die, and that I will be the one to blame.

There isn't so much to be afraid of, out there. I can remember thinking it was funny to find that out, on the last night of my life; I'd spent the rest of it being afraid of everything.

Why is failure the first thing I think of when I find myself in this sort of situation? Why can't I just enjoy myself? But if you have to ask the question, then you know you're lost: self-consciousness is a man's worst enemy. Already I'm wondering whether she's as aware of my erection as I am...

The cliche had it that kids were the future, but that wasn't it: they were the unreflective, active present. They were not themselves nostalgic, because they couldn't be, and they retarded nostalgia in their parents. Even as they were getting sick and being bullied and becoming addicted to heroin and getting pregnant, they were in the moment, and she wanted to be in it with them. She wanted to worry herself sick about schools and bullying and drugs.

These things are going to eat away at me... I rewrite the script in my head until it's 100-proof poison, and none of it helps at all.

We laughed. Ha, ha, we went. Ha, ha, ha. I'm not laughing now. Never has a joke filled me with such nausea and paranoia and insecurity and self-pity and dread and doubt.

He was thinking about Edith. She was constantly on the verge of canceling their marriage. She would only commission a few shows at a time, reluctantly, and if he had listened properly, she'd always been telling him that it would all end one day.