Quotes About Anxiety

I was obsessed with clowns. My dad had to get rid of them. I thought there were clowns under my bed for years.

The obsession that you have to manage everything - it's really bad.

Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) runs in my family, as do other mental health problems.

As an adult, the obsessive dynamics of self-employment meant it was impossible for me to take a break. What would happen if I disappeared for a week or two? I would be forgotten. Forever. A once-in-a-lifetime opportunity would, doubtless, present itself - and I would miss the chance to seize it.

People get obsessive and nuts. It's scary.

I'm frightened a lot. I feel like it's caused me a lot of obstacles.

I'm aware of my old plays and occasionally think about them, but I'm much more anxious about finding the next play.

I've dreamed on numerous occasions that I've lost the biggest event in my life, and there was absolutely nothing that I could do about it.

I get very antsy when I'm not occupied.

and dread came back like a hoot from a bully on the street outside.

You become a worrier by practicing worry. You become free of worry by practicing the opposite…

Worry affects the circulation, the heart, the glands, the whole nervous system, and profoundly affects the heart." Robert Frost declared, "The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.

The inability to understand the spiritual roots of gluttony (as the inability to sacrifice) or to appreciate a culture's role in fostering this anxious condition, makes it all the more difficult for individuals to find the help and direction they need.

But what about my car?" he asked.

Her clothing smelled of her anxious unwashed female body.

In any living organism, an exaggerated or excessive reaction indicates fear and insecurity.

He who worries about calamities suffers them twice over.

trepidation.

trepidations

The more enormous our wealth, the more extensive our fears, all our possessions are paled up with new edicts every day, and hung round with gibbets to scare every invader.

Great fear can cast love out.

Whatever you fear most has no power--it is your fear that has the power

Even as an adult, as I tried to sleep, my mind was conditioned to stay in a constant state of arousal, prepared for attack.

because people only tell lies when there is something they are terribly frightened of losing.