Quotes About Anxiety

he's worried about how his life is turning out, and he's lonely, and lonely people are the bitterest of them all.

If she came into my shop, I might really get to like her, and then I'd be waiting for her to come in all the time, and then when she did come in I'd be nervous and stupid, and probably end up asking her out for a drink in some cackhanded roundabout way, and either she wouldn't catch my drift, and I'd feel like an idiot, or she'd turn me down flat, and I'd feel like an idiot.

wished she didn't spend so much time worrying about the end of it all, but she couldn't help it. Being at the top of your career was like being at the top of a Ferris wheel: you knew that you had to keep moving, and you knew which way you were going. You had no choice.

Only people of a certain disposition are frightened of being alone for the rest of their lives at twenty-six; we were of that disposition

Self-consciousness is a man's worst enemy.

And you know why I didn't get those scans?" He looked back at the blanket-draped figure. "I was scared of dying. Terrified. Didn't want to face it. Didn't want to acknowledge it might happen—that I'd be forced to retire, confined to a hospital bed and get bed sores all over my ass. And then, boom. Nothing. No thoughts. No feeling. No existing. Just ... nothing.

Another way Epicurus thought he could cure his followers of their fear of death was by pointing out the difference between what we feel about the future and what we feel about the past.

Whether or not you can imagine your own death, it seems quite natural to be at least a bit afraid of not existing.

After I binged last night -or was it tonight - I was convinced yet again that there were people coming to get me. It was more than just shadows and voices, more than just fantasies....it was real, and I was scared to my core. My bones were shaking...m heart was pounding...I thought I was going to explode. I'm glad I have you to talk to, to write this down. I tried to keep it all together, but then I gave in to the manes and became one with my insanity.

Never in my life have I feared death as much as I feared that resurrection.

I'm worried. My heart is filled with uneasiness, apprehension, agitation.

I think I am going to die of anguish. I cannot do it. I do not have the strength any longer to begin. My mind is fully armed, but I am unable to take the frightening leap.

jingoism, racism, fear, religious fundamentalism: these are the ways of appealing to people if you're trying to organize a mass base of support for policies that are really intended to crush them.

What happens to me when I'm provoked is that I get tongue-tied and my mind goes blank. Then I spend all night tossing and turning trying to figure out what I should have said

When I first met him, he had a recurrent nightmare that Henry Kissinger was chasing him with a knife, and I said it was really his father, and he said it was really Henry Kissinger, and I said it was his father and he said it was Henry Kissinger, and this went on for months until he started going to the Central American shrinkette, who said Henry Kissinger was really his younger sister.

could never explain it to anyone, the way a fear can live inside you. The way it dictates how you think and how you act, what you say, what you don't dare say.

My greatest fear has always been to make a mistake.' 'Perhaps your greatest fear is your greatest mistake.

Girls, to her mind, suffered an agony of suspense and an embarrassing passivity during prom season.

Where there's love, there's worry. Worry walks hand in hand with joy on love's path

There's never been anyone like you. I keep worrying that I'll make the wrong move.

or nervous before. Though they didn't know

You were worried about me. It was a brief moment of insanity. It's passed.

today." "I've been out. And Dad has no reason to be worried." "No?" Milicent tapped a lacquered fingernail against the arm of the chair. "You burst in on him last night with

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