Quotes About Anxiety

The Cylons are such a frightening concept - not knowing who is real. No way.

One of the difficulties of not knowing for so long whether we were doing a fifth season or not was that we weren't really allowed to go out shopping for work.

Not knowing the thing that's chasing you is a lot scarier than seeing it right in front of you.

My parents were not perfect, but no one's parents are. As childhoods go, mine was pretty comfortable and good in a lot of ways, and yet I still ended up with anxiety.

Am I afraid of high notes? Of course I am afraid. What sane man is not?

I'm pretty hard on myself when it comes to my voice, and certain notes I'm afraid to hit because I'm afraid I'm going to sound bad.

I feel like maybe I get more nervous when I'm singing. One, it's live. Two, there's a lot of people watching. And three, you have to make sure you get the right notes and everything.

One thing I have noticed about having kids, is all you do is worry about them. Worry how they're going to do in life, worry how they're getting on at school, worried when they fall over, worried when they get a cut, you just worry about them in general.

Having a giant beard really distracts people from noticing you're barely keeping it together emotionally.

Seven years into writing a novel, I started to lose my mind. My thirty-seventh birthday had just come and gone, the end of 2008 was approaching, and I was constantly aware of how little I had managed to accomplish.

The novelist, quite rightly, fears the psychoanalyst as both an enemy and a usurper.

I tell you, I feel like a real novice as far as horror goes.

To have a sort of career in music still kind of freaks me out every now and then.

I have older boys and two of them are driving which is scary to me just because of the police nowadays.

Dealing with chronic anxiety has taught me to better understand the nuances of mental illness and the very individual nature of it.

I can't really worry about nuclear war any more than I can worry about the aliens coming.

I was sent to a school because my father was already aware that his days were numbered, and he was anxious for me to acquire a good education and follow in his footsteps.

What I absolutely can't do is just sit around, that drives me crazy. I go nuts! I'm far too nervous, too high strung to sit around. It's not my thing; I can't deal with it!

People come up to me all the time. If I'm with friends or in a crowd, I'm fine, but if I'm by myself, I get afraid because people are nuts.

You can't even look outside because everything's so crazy, especially in America. And I live in Detroit! There's the economy, and the fact you can't even open your door any more without going nuts.

Anxiety is not fear, exactly, because fear is focused on something right in front of you - a real and objective danger.

I'm deeply insecure. I ask my wife all the time, 'Was that OK? Are people lying?' I'm not as happily oblivious as I'd like.

He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

I get scared when I think I'm going to miss my flight. I get obsessed when I actually miss a flight.