Quotes About Anxiety

There are also just as many, if not more, women who are anxious to hold down the status quo.

I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs.

I'm trying to stay as calm as possible and focus one day at a time, but when reality sets in, I feel everything: anxiety, excitement, nerves, pressure and joy.

I was the person who stayed awake reading by the nightlight until the scary shadows made me crazy.

I've stayed in hotels where you were scared to even put your feet on the floor, or had to sleep in a chair.

I stayed at home and loved my own company because I was just petrified of everybody else my own age, which I think a lot of people are.

I'm not very good at staying up late and drinking or any of that stuff. It sort of freaks me out.

Whether it is fear of having fish pie or staying in someone's house or not being able to tell the time, all of those things I can remember very clearly. We so often forget how big all these things are for very small children because they are so often trying these things for the first time.

Going under the water and staying under the water for periods of time gives me claustrophobia.

I'm too short to play basketball and too nervous to steal.

Dread, which is closely related to fear, steals the ability to enjoy ordinary life and makes people anxious about the future. It keeps them from looking forward to the next day, the next month, or the next decade.

I had cut myself off from everyone. I didn't come out of my room, forget stepping out of the house. I had a beard, and I didn't get a haircut for months. For someone who has performed in front of a crowd of 20,000, I was scared of facing 4-5 people. That's what bipolar disorder does to you.

He that hopes no good fears no ill.

Still as they run they look behind,They hear a voice in every wind,And snatch a fearful joy.

Fear comes with imagination, it's a penalty, it's the price of imagination.

The passion to be reckoned upon, is fear.

There is even a happiness - that makes the heart afraid.

And there is even a happinessThat makes the heart afraid.

Lost in his own horrific contemplations... When at the bed's foot, close beside the post, He verily believed he saw—a Ghost!... From every pore distill'd a clammy dew, Quaked every limbe—the candle, too... The room was fill'd with a sulphureous smell, But where that came from Mason could not tell.

My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.

How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.

The fact that we experience anxiety and annoyance is the certain sign that, in the unconscious, there is an emotional program for happiness that has just been frustrated.

What makes a nightmare nightmarish is the sense that something is happening that should not be. While nightmares are the most convenient reference point for this sense of the impossible, the unthinkable, as something that is actually happening, it is not restricted to our sleeping hours.

Officially there are no fates worse than death. Unofficially, there is a profusion of such fates. For some people, just living with the thought that they will die is a fate worse than death itself.