Quotes About Anxiety

Fear has been my biggest friend. Fear of the unknown. Whenever I've been afraid, I've been very self-protective.

It would be cool to be invisible, but I'm afraid of what people would say about me if they didn't know I was there. Some things are better left unknown.

I think we are intrinsically prone to being irrational and superstitious. A lot of it comes from our fear of the unknown and the fear of a lack of control over our fate.

We human beings get nervous if we don't know what's going on. It's the rule for creating scary stories: the unknown is always more frightening than the known.

Most times, at the movies, my stress levels are ratcheted up so high that I can barely sit through the full production without excusing myself, clutching people next to me or crawling out of my seat, incapacitated by the unknown.

People are scared of the unknown.

The unknown makes people uncomfortable.

Life is a very scary thing because it's unknown. Anything can happen anytime, and that is terrifying for all of us: to not to be in control.

I hate the unknown.

I've known the anxiety of being completely lost, flying at night. It can be extreme. You're travelling at close to five hundred miles an hour, and every minute that goes by takes you further into being lost unless you get help from ground radar somewhere or somehow figure out the error.

I know there are a lot of women who are afraid of driving on highways.

Manly men and womanly women are still here but feeling nervous.

I get very nervous around famous people and I get nervous around beautiful women.

I don't know how it is for women or for other guys, but when I was young and in my 20s, I had a fear of marriage.

Women want a man who is sensitive, but god forbid you can't get it up after being frightened by a small woodland animal.

I regard the whole of my life as having been lived in an anxious world.

Big black guys fear air travel almost as much as old white women fear big black guys.

Nowadays people consider it a disgrace to admit that they are not stressed.

Broadly speaking, nervous women may be divided into two classes - those who are really nervous, and those who imagine themselves to be so.

The only people that can't handle the truth are those that suffer so much anxiety that they will live in denial, in order to prevent their illusion from being destroyed and feeling more anxiety.

Anyone could see that this woman is living a nightmare. Except that she goes through her daily life wide awake, knowing that she could make a mistake at any moment.

I love the storm and fear the calm.

The greatest weight a bird gives up when preparing to fly is fear.

And I was fairly certain that my strong-enough-for-King-Kong-but-made-for-a-woman deodorant had utterly failed. --Doom with a View