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Quotes About Anxiety

You're a great brother. You give us a heart attack worrying about your heart attack, which you didn't even have the decency to have!
~ Groucho Marx
Regretful and negative thoughts about the past can effectively induce the same kind of fight or flight response that external threats stimulate.
~ Gudjon Bergmann
A hatalom a félelem legmagasabb rend? megnyilvánulása, amelyet az ember önmaga számára alkot meg, éppen azon er?feszítései révén, melyeket azért tesz, hogy megszabaduljon t?lük.
~ Guglielmo Ferrero
Rod Serling once observed, "The greatest fear of all is fear of the unknown, which you can't share with others.
~ Guillermo del Toro
Saber a qué le tememos, es sabes quiénes somos.
~ Guillermo del Toro
Something warned me that what I might see would haunt me forever.
~ Guillermo del Toro
Fear is the foundation of your identity.
~ Guillermo Gómez-Peña
The future is the worst thing about the present.
~ Gustave Flaubert
Reality is the most effective mask of reality. Our fondest wish, attained, ceases to be our fondest wish. Success is the greatest of disappointments. The spirit is most alive when it is lost. Anxiety was Kafka's composure, as despair was Kierkegaard's happiness. Kafka said impatience is our greatest fault. The man at the gate of the Law waited there all of his life.
~ Guy Davenport
The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
~ Guy de Maupassant
Much like the hands of a clock go nowhere fast, anxious thoughts run us round-and-round without taking us anywhere!
~ Guy Finley
The only thing worried thoughts have the power to change is what the next thing will be for you to worry over!
~ Guy Finley
Being anxious, or in a painful rush of any kind, kills the possibility of meeting anyone with compassion.
~ Guy Finley
Weak thoughts and feelings often feel strong but remember, real strength is never anxious, cruel, or punishing.
~ Guy Finley
It is no peace of mine
~ Guy Gavriel Kay
Can the future be a white expanse? Can you run in, heart pounding? I find I've never given much thought to the future. Beyond that sense of getting away. Derelictions, you see, left and right. Yet here I am.
~ Gwendoline Riley
I am sick of death and worst of all this sickness feeds on itself, the more afraid I am the more I am afraid the more I flee the more I am afraid the more I am haunted.
~ Helene Cixous
But I may also be afraid. I am afraid. I have already read it. And, not to lie to you, I liked it. But I am afraid. I am not afraid of you, Fidelia, Sania, Ania. I am afraid of you . (I put all this in my separate notebook. My doubtbook.)
~ Helene Cixous
We have information fatigue, anxiety, and glut. We
~ James Gleick
Every day lasts a year. I never enjoy anything. And every morning when I wake up I dread having to face the world again.
~ James Herriot
without warning, the thermometer disappeared from my fingers. Some sudden suction had drawn it inside the cow. I ran my fingers round just inside the rectum—nothing; I pushed my hand inside without success; with a feeling of rising panic I rolled up my sleeve and groped about in vain.
~ James Herriot
I found that the fear is worse than the reality and horse work has never worried me as much since then.
~ James Herriot
It might have been." I was also afraid of being of being rejected, and accepted for the wrong reasons.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
Fear robs us of our freedom to make the right choice in life that the thought of fear itself is greater than what it is we fear.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)