Quotes About Anxiety

There is nothing like fear to complicate one's consciousness, inducing previously unknown levels of reflection

The finest people, as people go, cannot help but betray a fair portion of fear and insecurity, even full-blown panic.

I had always been afraid.

But it is really just a psychic overcompensation for our impotence as beings.

There are things which only madmen fear because only madmen may truly conceive of them.

was driven by the will to negate what one fears. No one gives up on something until it turns on them, whether or not that thing is real or unreal.

Fear, when blended with failure, distills into a deadly brew.

she is overwhelmed by an amorphous anxiety without a specific source.

Something is back there. She feels this to be a horrible truth. She almost knows what the thing is, but, afflicted with some kind of oneiric aphasia, she cannot find the word for what she fears. She can only wait, hoping that sudden shock will soon bring her out of the dream, for she is now aware that "she is dreaming," thinking of herself in the third person.

Horror is not really horror unless it's your horror—that which you have known personally.

Children have made me nervous ever since I stopped being one of them.

When one is experiencing failure, it is hard to resist the comfort of paranoia.

We think too many thoughts at once, most of them the same thoughts we had yesterday and the day before. We are impatient with life, and anxious.

Without this, your life is incomplete." Automobile commercials are particularly amusing in their overemphasis on these messages. They present ownership of their particular car as some sort of euphoric experience. In reality, we all know that cars are terrible investments that depreciate faster than anything else, and that when we purchase a new one, we spend most of our mental energy worrying that it will be stolen or damaged in the local mall parking lot.

With agoraphobia you feel safe only when you are in certain environments. Your anxiety increases every time your 'safe place' is unavailable, blocked, or becomes more distant.

Anxiety is the mark of spiritual insecurity.

I'm scared of people leaving unexpectedly. It's cos of the way I died.

had gone insane and would throw the child, perhaps

Therefore, whatever may be the nature of our anxiety, we should endeavour to dispel it by the consideration that there may be already existing other facts we do not know of which will produce a different result from the one we fear, and that in any case there is a power which can produce new facts in answer to our appeal to it.

As children grow older, the care of parents grows greater. They are afraid of their children falling when young, and of worse than falls when they are older.

Worry that is either untrusting or distracting is very dishonorable to God. It

Why are Christians so disquieted in their minds? They are taking care when they should be casting care.

lo que más ocupa al ser humano es aquello que rechaza

If I could remove fear from my life, uproot it, who would I be? she wonders. What would it feel like to live for today and let the future remain in the future? How much lighter her burdens would seem.