Quotes About Anxiety

All the nightmares that had ever plagued a woman alone in the dark loomed in her mind.

Love is worry and joy together.

Bet it was some ride. Theo manfully swallowed the prickly lump in his throat. There was a jittering inside his chest that came as much from seeing his father break apart as from anxiety over Maddy. I'll haul her in, Dad. You're going to wreck your arm

Even the invisible are insecure. It's the most universal problem we have. It's so universal, it might not even count as a problem.

a phone without an answering machine would ring incessantly until the caller gave up. You had to answer the phone in order to stop the phone. But the main reason everyone always answered the telephone was the impossibility of knowing who was on the line. Every ringing phone was, potentially, a life-altering event. It might be a telemarketer, but it also might be a death in the family. It could be your next-door neighbor, but it could also be the governor, and there was only one way to find out.

Modern people worry about smartphone addiction, despite the fact that landlines exercised much more control over the owner. If you needed to take an important call, you just had to sit in the living room and wait for it. There was no other option.

Everyone smiles with that invisible gun to their head.

You're always haunted by the idea you're wasting your life.

For the first time in longer than I can remember, I feel peaceful. Not happy. Not sad. Not anxious. Not horny. Just all the higher parts of my brain closing up shop. The cerebral cortex. The cerebellum. That's where my problem is. I'm now simplifying myself. Somewhere balanced in the perfect middle between happiness and sadness. Because sponges never have a bad day.

After you find out all the things that can go wrong, your life becomes less about living and more about waiting.

People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were too scared of being alone.

Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.

Tell the world what scares you most. Save the world with some advice from the future.

We come from a generation of people who need their TV or stereo playing all the time. These people so scared of silence. These soundaholics, these quietophobics.

you ever been trapped in a world where you're everyone's worst nightmare?

In the end, it's never what you worry about that gets you.

As an artist you organize your life so that you get a chance to paint, a window of time, but that's no guarantee you'll create anything worth all your effort. You're always haunt by the idea you're wasting your life.

The cancer I don't have is everywhere now.

Tyler and me at the edge of the roof, the gun in my mouth, I'm wondering how clean this gun is.

The girls you meet are never very far from their worst-case scenario.

Quand'è che il futuro è passato da essere una promessa a essere una minaccia?

Am I sleeping? Have I slept at all? This is the insomnia. Try to relax a little more with every breath out, but your heart's still racing and your thoughts tornado in your head. Nothing works. Not guided meditation. You're in Ireland. Not counting sheep. You count up the days, hours, minutes since you can remember falling asleep.

Every takeoff and landing, when the plane banked too much to one side, I prayed for a crash.

Peo­ple used what they called a tele­phone be­cause they hat­ed be­ing close to­geth­er and they were too scared of be­ing alone.